Sorry for being so late posting this. As you know by my previous post that I have been following the engineering problems that have arisen with the power project at Lake Livingston.
There was a top level meeting today concerning that problem.
My contact at the dam took the afternoon off to take his wife for a birthday celebration in Houston.
He only returned around 10 PM.
He did not attend the meeting but was told what transpired by a friend who was there.
When he gave me the news I was shocked. I wanted to know more but he said it would be in the next issue of our local paper.
I remembered that the son of a neighbor worked nights at the paper as the layout/pressman.
So I gave him a call. The item below is what he sent me from the layout room computer.
It says it all.
I will be going to the site office in the morning to get a face to face report.
I will post again when I know more.
Lake to be drained, LIVINGSTON, March 31, 2014 – At a meeting of the managing directors of East Texas Power (ETP) , Trinity River Committee and the commissioners of Polk, Trinity and San Jacinto counties at the Polk County Community center Monday it was announced that Lake Livingston will be lowered eight feet to facilitate the construction of the new hydroelectric plant.
Despite the previous assurances that the plant construction would not affect the lake level it appears that has changed. Tom Diggers, construction project manager, stated that recent soil samples have shown that a previously planned coffer dam might not be suitable to prevent a failure of the earthen levee at the dam opening. Installation of the penstock tubes requires a large opening in the dam at the eastern end of the levee. To prevent the uncontrolled flow of water through such an opening it will be necessary to lower the lake level stated Diggers.
Construction is scheduled to start in early May, 2014. The drawn down will begin in about two weeks. Phase one is scheduled to complete in late fall when the lake will be allowed to refill.
Otto Braun, TRA environmental specialist, stated that TRA would work closely with the Texas Wildlife Dept. during the drawn down to insure no fish or wild life is harmed.
William O. Peoples, Trinity county commissioner, inquired if the project might be able to assist local businesses that will be affected by the lowering.
Florence Gates, project public relations officer, stated that the operating charter did not require that a minimum level be maintained. She added that the lake had been lower than four feet at least five times since it was impounded and this lowering would be no different.
It was agreed that a press release will be made this week and again one week prior to the release of lake water.
There was a top level meeting today concerning that problem.
My contact at the dam took the afternoon off to take his wife for a birthday celebration in Houston.
He only returned around 10 PM.
He did not attend the meeting but was told what transpired by a friend who was there.
When he gave me the news I was shocked. I wanted to know more but he said it would be in the next issue of our local paper.
I remembered that the son of a neighbor worked nights at the paper as the layout/pressman.
So I gave him a call. The item below is what he sent me from the layout room computer.
It says it all.
I will be going to the site office in the morning to get a face to face report.
I will post again when I know more.
Lake to be drained, LIVINGSTON, March 31, 2014 – At a meeting of the managing directors of East Texas Power (ETP) , Trinity River Committee and the commissioners of Polk, Trinity and San Jacinto counties at the Polk County Community center Monday it was announced that Lake Livingston will be lowered eight feet to facilitate the construction of the new hydroelectric plant.
Despite the previous assurances that the plant construction would not affect the lake level it appears that has changed. Tom Diggers, construction project manager, stated that recent soil samples have shown that a previously planned coffer dam might not be suitable to prevent a failure of the earthen levee at the dam opening. Installation of the penstock tubes requires a large opening in the dam at the eastern end of the levee. To prevent the uncontrolled flow of water through such an opening it will be necessary to lower the lake level stated Diggers.
Construction is scheduled to start in early May, 2014. The drawn down will begin in about two weeks. Phase one is scheduled to complete in late fall when the lake will be allowed to refill.
Otto Braun, TRA environmental specialist, stated that TRA would work closely with the Texas Wildlife Dept. during the drawn down to insure no fish or wild life is harmed.
William O. Peoples, Trinity county commissioner, inquired if the project might be able to assist local businesses that will be affected by the lowering.
Florence Gates, project public relations officer, stated that the operating charter did not require that a minimum level be maintained. She added that the lake had been lower than four feet at least five times since it was impounded and this lowering would be no different.
It was agreed that a press release will be made this week and again one week prior to the release of lake water.
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