Talk:Taum Sauk pumped storage plant
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We should add some before and after photos of the breach and of Johnson Shut-ins State Park. --Bushido Hacks 01:04, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
(Someone who want to verify copyright can find a bunch of them them here: [1])
(Here's a fun sattelite photo)
- I'm anxious to see what the after photos will look like. I probably can dig up some before pictures for the park. (Been meaning to get around to writing the article for the park.) I've visited the reservoir a few times, and I think I have some pictures looking out over the water, but probably none that capture the essence of the thing. You've seen my oblique topographic map of the place. Maybe I can do the same but with aerial photo overlay, and make sure it captures the lower reservoir, too. Unless there are ready, unencumbered images such as fit the bill already available. -- Kbh3rdtalk 01:09, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Geo-Synthetics
Curious how Geo-Synthetics' webpage about their relining of the upper reservoir disappeared the day after the failure. That wasn't wholly unexpected, but it had some really good pictures of the drained reservoir taken during the relining project. — Kbh3rdtalk 17:52, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
(The Google cache still has the pics:) [3]
(No, it does not -- 2006 Aug 14)
[edit] Spilway
How on earth could such a project be permitted to be constructed by Missouri county and state authorities without the protection of a spilway ? Instrumentation installed for saftey without a fail-safe backup (usually a physical one, but not aleays) is instrumentaion installed by a total fool. It has all the signs of another egineering project designed by accountants.
The costs of this failure, as indicated on the AmerenUE page indicate that more than $100-million had been spent or will be for corrective efforts and liability claims -- I wonder whether this plant has paid for itself, including these losses.
