First Meeting
The first meeting of the panel that is to allocate the $5 million was held tonight. The following is from an Ameren press release.
AmerenUE has hired The Forrester Group—veteran Missouri-based environmental management consultants—to facilitate the work of the panel established to evaluate all submitted recommendations and develop a plan for use of the $5 million set aside for project enhancements at or near the Taum Sauk Plant.
So most of the meeting was taken up with setting ground rules and trying to establish additional criteria beyond the FERC criteria for evaluating the requests for funds. Forrester representatives will be in Lesterville next week to help people that have already submitted applications prioritize their requests.
There is a Technical Group that has been formed by Forrester to evaluate the requests for EMS funds. Next Thursday the panel will begin to hear presentations from those people that have made applications. Each person will have three minutes to make a presentation, followed by questions from the panel.
I'm returning to Springfield Friday morning to help my son and daughter-in-law with some of the problems left over from the ice storm. So the next post will be next Monday at the earliest.
posted by staff @ 8:47 PM
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3 Comments:
Lee, what I want to know is if the rebuild plan includes a spillway? I tried to download the 141 page report you provided us with several days ago and all the text was jumbled together. If I am to assume it does include a spillway does it have the capacity to handle the pump-back discharge of both turbines in addition to a rainfall event equal to that of the flood of 1986???? Now I am no engineer just a plain ole Joe with a mere High School education, so you think the "real" engineers would have the brains to figure this one out given the past screw up Ameren was responsible for a little more than a year ago! As usual thanks for all the updates Lee. Without you I think we all might be blind to the unfolding of new events!
Yes, it has a spillway going into Taum Sauk creek above the lower reservoir.
More important it has a spillway that drains into a large concrete holding
pond. It would only over flow into the Taum Sauk creek if the pond filled to capacity. There are a number of new techniques that will be used to moniter water depth, all of these could have been used on the breached reservoir, including live video monitoring.
Lee
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