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Higgins, Karen
From: hotmail _18949de3c2d10c94 @live.com on behalf of jabboprice @bellsouth.net
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2013 12:13 AM
To: Higgins, Karen
Cc: Jim Schwarz
Subject: Electric Power Outage Prevents Continuous DO Collection - Jordan Hydroelectric Project
About a week and a half ago we learned the building of a new bathroom in the tailwater area below Jordan
Dam had removed power from the tailwater area. The DO and temperature monitoring equipment below the
dam depends on the 120 V AC service in the tailwater area to collect the water quality data and transmit it to
the plant computer on top of the intake tower. So the loss of electric power prevents the Project from
collecting that data continuously (every 30 minutes) for the present. The Corps advised us on April 30 that
they had requested the Central Electric Membership Cooperative restore the power to the tailwater area
while the construction is in progress. The Corps does not have a firm date for CEMC to restore power, but
they expect it to happen within a few days.
While the power is out of service, we are having our operators make a few grab samples of DO and
temperature each day.
We are not concerned that state standards might be violated, because the water discharged by the dam is in
the 60 degree F range. Samples that we have taken since May 1 show the DO to be above 8.5 mg /I. So we
believe that our plan is a reasonable way to be certain that state water quality standards are met while the
power is out, which hopefully will be a brief period.
Please call with any questions.
Jim Price
Jordan Hydroelectric Project
803 215 4165