http://www.bowersockpower.com Producing clean, renewable energy since 1874. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:04:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We are still moving on the project and feel optimistic.  There are almost innumerable pieces to be put together here including three key items which are the regulatory approvals, a power purchase agreement, and financing.  Last week we had our special use permit for the City of Lawrence approved which ... http://www.bowersockpower.com/most-recent/summer-2010-update It's been too long since I updated this.  There is so much going on it is tough to keep all the balls in the air, but we have moved forward on a lot of fronts since I last wrote.  This week the City completed land geotech, and next week we ... http://www.bowersockpower.com/most-recent/long-time As of early March, it looks like we have forward motion on repairs to the dam.  We are particularly relieved because City Commissioners agreed that building a coffer dam is critical to the next stage of repairs to the dam.  Without a coffer dam, there is no way we could ... http://www.bowersockpower.com/most-recent/moving-forward As many people saw in the Journal World, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has required Bowersock to keep its millpond at damtop.  We can go into this at greater length later, but this will make things very difficult for Bowersock, and over the long term for the City and ... http://www.bowersockpower.com/most-recent/boards-and-millpond It looks like we may have a good hand here.  Touch wood... Currently we have low water below 2,000 cfs predicted for early next week.  The Corps has been very responsive and communicative as we have worked for this window which has been extremely helpful.  Barring any major precipitation we ... http://www.bowersockpower.com/most-recent/looks-like-a-good-hand The Corps is now beginning to do their winter drawdowns from the reservoirs so the cfs at the Lecompton gauge and at Bowersock is predicted to be around 10,000 cfs for the next 10 to 14 days.  After that (depending on precipitation) we should have much lower flows.  It could ... http://www.bowersockpower.com/most-recent/low-water-predicted-for-early-january We spoke with the Corps of Engineers today and it looks like we won't have a window to work on the dam until mid-January or more likely February.  The Corps keeps water in the reservoirs for waterfowl season until the lakes start to freeze, at which point they drop the ... http://www.bowersockpower.com/most-recent/word-from-the-corps What do we mean by good water?  If we didn't need low water for dam and batter boards repairs, we'd say we have pretty good water for power production today - especially since most of our batter boards (or doors) are down.  We have about 8,000 cfs in the river, ... http://www.bowersockpower.com/river-levels/good-water We are trying to categorize our posts now.  Use the category feature to chose a topic or click on "Most Recent" for the latest at Bowersock.  Thanks! http://www.bowersockpower.com/most-recent/coming-soon