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Goat Lake Hydroelectric Project
Low Impact Hydropower Institute: March 2007
LIHI Certificate #26 - Goat Lake Hydroelectric Project, Goat Lake, Skagway, Alaska (FERC # 11077).
On March 28, 2007, the LIHI Governing Board certified the Goat Lake Hydropower Project as Low Impact.
The Goat Lake Project meets LIHI’s eight environmentally rigorous Low Impact criteria addressing river flows, water quality, fish passage and protection, watershed health, endangered species protection, cultural resources, recreation use and access, and whether or not the dam itself has been recommended for removal...
Black Bear Lake Hydroelectric Project
Low Impact Hydropower Institute: December 2006
LIHI Certificate #22 - Black Bear Lake Hydroelectric Project (FERC # 10440). Prince of Wales Island, Alaska
The Low Impact Hydropower Institute (LIHI) announced that at their December 14, 2006 meeting they certified the Black Bear Lake Hydroelectric Project as Low Impact. The Black Bear Lake Hydroelectric Project (FERC # 10440) is a 4.5 MW hydro project at Black Bear Lake on Prince of Wales Island, Tongass National Forest, Alaska. The Project is located at Sections 1 and 12; T73S, R82E, CRM about 8.6 miles east of Klawock. The facility is owned and operated by the Alaska Power and Telephone (APT), and licensed by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). It took 5 years to license the Black Bear Lake Hydroelectric Project (BBL Hydro). Total project costs were approximately $10 Million.
The Black Bear Lake Project meets LIHI's eight environmentally rigorous Low Impact criteria addressing river flows, water quality, fish passage and protection, watershed health, endangered species protection, cultural resources, recreation use and access, and whether or not the dam itself has been recommended for removal...
Lower Granite Dam Hydroelectric Power Plant
Intercom: US Army Corp of Engineers: March 2006
Welders test Automated technology on cavitation job
Contractors hired to repair turbine cavitation damage on three units at Lower Granite Dam brought out new tools to try on the job. Workers from ConstrucitonAire Corp. of Bellingham, Wash., wanted to see if the track-mounted automated technology of a portable milling machine and automatic welder would have useful application on the curved surfaces of the turbine parts in comparison to hand-held welding devices...
Power Creek Hydroelectric Project
CE News: October 2002
Power Creek:An innovative use of software brings power to Cordova, Alaska
Local and state officials have been trying for decades to build a hydroelectric plant for the settlement, but design professionals said it couldn't be done because the terrain was so steep and the area is prone to avalanches. However, by uniquely applying a roadway design software package, one engineering firm knew it could bring electricity to Cordova...
Power Creek Hydroelectric Project
Hydro Review: September 2002
Replacing Diesel Fuel With Hydroelectric Generation
By using its new renewable source, the 6-MW Power Creek Hydro Project, the Cordova Electric Cooperative will reduce consumption of 1 million gallons of diesel fuel, improve air quality, reduce consumer power costs, and benefit businesses in this remote Alaskan community...
Power Creek Hydroelectric Project
Rural Electric Magazine: December 2001
Power Creek Comes Into Its Own
On the coastal fringes of the Chugach Mountains, near a place where glaciers named for Civil War generals calve into the Copper River Delta, another ice field flows in a different direction. The Shepherd Glacier pushes centuries' worth of packed ice down the inland slopes of a foothill spur in Alaska's coastal range, where it melts into fast, clear creeks that course past bogs and beaver ponds on their way to the Gulf of Alaska. And one of these tumbling waterways now takes still another turn, pausing at a small concrete channel and spilling to the side, into a pipe seven feet in diameter that bores more than a mile through the dense rock at the base of the mountains. Dropping nearly 300 feet, the water surges through giant nozzles to drive the turbines on two three-megawatt generators installed by Cordova Electric Cooperative...
Goat Lake Hydroelectric Project
Hydro Review: September 1998
Goat Lake Hydro: Providing Power, Protecting the Past
Overcoming geographical obstacles and environmental and historical preservation challenges has resulted in successful development of the 4-MW Goat Lake Hydropower Project. The plant not only provides power to a remote Alaska community, but also preserves artifacts from a turn-of-the-century gold rush...
Black Bear Lake Hydroelectric Project
Alaska Airlines Magazine: May 1997
Powerful Influence
Pioneer Alaskans began relying on hydromechanical power in the 1840s, but until recently, engineering challenges were a barrier to tapping the mountainous state's waterpower potential. That's changing, thanks in great part to an innovative Bellingham, Washington, company - Whitewater Engineering Corp...
Humpback Creek Hydroelectric Project
Hydro Review: October 1992
Humpback Creek Supplies Power to Alaskan Village
A one-year-old hydroelectric project supplies about 20 percent of Cordova, Alaska's electricity. The 1.25-MW hydro plant has decreased the village's total dependence on diesel fuel...