Image By ENR Art Dept. Related Links: Innergex's Project Website Now that the British Columbia government has given the go-ahead to build three run-of-river generating stations and a 45-mile transmission line in the Upper Lillooet River Valley, the winning joint-venture and engineering teams are working through the 37 conditions that come with the approval.The $420-million project will proceed only if the developer, Creek Power Inc., maintains minimum in-stream flow requirements and monitors temperature and ice conditions for the life of the 230-KW project, government officials say.The Creek Power JV is two-thirds owned by Innergex Renewable Energy and one-third owned by
Photo Courtesy of Tampa Bay Water The new project's design aims to eliminate any chance of future cracking. Related Links: Concerns Over Sinkholes Scuttle Tampa Bay Water's Reservoir Expansion Viewpoint: In Tampa Bay Water v. HDR, Fiscal Prudence Falls Through the Cracks Tampa Bay Water General Manager job listing Eight Semifinalists in Running to Replace Temple Terrace City Manager Gerald Seeber, the Tampa Bay Water general manager who urged the utility to pursue an expensive and as-yet unsuccessful lawsuit against HDR Engineering over cracking at its reservoir, has told the group he is seeking employment elsewhere.The pending move was made
Related Links: Water Groups' Blueprint (PDF) http://enr.construction.com/business_management/workforce/2010/0609-careerwebsite.asp Industry Associations Launch Career Website in Water Niche Three major water groups have developed a document they hope will be a springboard for legislative and regulatory changes that could help modernize how the Clean Water Act is interpreted and implemented.The document, titled "Water Resources Utility of the Future: Blueprint for Action," was released on Jan. 31 by the National Association of Clean Water Agencies (NACWA), the Water Environment Research Foundation and the Water Environment Federation. It highlights the ways utilities have evolved.The blueprint is a living document, its authors say, and "represents an
Related Links: EPA Releases Framework to Give Cities More Flexibility in Managing Wastewater Copy of EPA memo A Jan. 18 Environmental Protection Agency memo could prove to be an important step in giving communities more flexibility in how they build and pay for major water infrastructure projects, according to water utility groups.The memo stresses the agency’s commitment to working with the mayors of municipalities and localities on how regional offices evaluate the ability of communities to pay for major water infrastructure programs mandated by consent decree. In June 2012, EPA released a framework--called the integrated planning and permitting process (IP3)--for
Photo courtesy of San Diego County Water Authority Facility, to be built near a powerplant in Carlsbad, Calif., would produce more than 50 million gal of desalinated water per day. Related Links: Two Desalination Plants Could Cost $540 Million Desalination Gets Second Look To Counter Drought Booming Parched Cities Trigger Search for New Water Sources Desalination Project Website-San Diego County Water Authority Israel’s IDE Technologies Ltd. has won a large contract to plan, equip, operate and maintain a seawater desalination plant in Carlsbad, Calif.The $922-million facility, set for completion in 2016, will be largest facility of its type in in
Related Links: Mississippi Blues; When the Water Doesn't Run (NPR) Corps Praised for Averting Mississippi River Shipping Shutdown (Washington Post) Extraordinarily low water levels in the middle reaches of the Mississippi River have complicated barge service and forced companies that supply, deliver and use aggregate and other barge-delivered construction materials to scramble and get creative, sources at those companies said last week.Still, they said that, in nearly all cases, construction contractors have been able to secure required materials when they are needed and that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is doing all it can to maintain acceptable water levels
Photo Courtesy of Idaho Power Utility operators release silver iodide solution into the clouds when weather conditions are optimal, hoping to increase snowfall. Related Links: Scientific American: Does Cloud Seeding Work? Utah Cloud Seeding Home Page Idaho Power, which depends upon hydropower to serve about 500,000 customers in southern Idaho and eastern Oregon, is trying to augment its water supply by cloud seeding.While the concept dates from the 1940s, Idaho Power is pushing to expand its decade-old program to increase snowpack—and stronger runoff for its hydroelectric generation facilities—by as much as 15% annually.Cloud seeding involves injecting silver iodinde into supercool
Canada's prime minister, Stephen Harper, is winning praise from the country's energy sector for a decision announced in early December that would prevent the takeover by foreign- and state-owned enterprises, or SOEs, of Canadian energy companies operating in Alberta's oil sands.
Investigating safety concerns posed by the $4.8-billion Grand Renaissance Dam in Ethiopia, a joint committee comprising representatives from Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan, among others, recently made its last trip to the hydropower-plant site before compiling its report.
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