Application filed for ‘Coralville Lake Hydropower Project’ March 13, 2008
Posted by John in Energy, Government, Military, Nature.Tags: Coralville Lake Hydropower Project, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, hydroelectricity, Iowa River, Johnson County (Iowa), Midriver Power LLC, US Army Corps of Engineers
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From Federal Energy Regulatory Commission:
NOTICE OF APPLICATION ACCEPTED FOR FILING AND SOLICITING COMMENTS, MOTIONS TO INTERVENE, AND PROTESTS
(March 6, 2008)
Take notice that the following hydroelectric applications have been filed with the Commission and are available for public inspection:
a. Type of Application: Preliminary Permit
b. Project No.: P-13100-000
c. Date Filed: January 23, 2008
d. Applicant: Midriver Power L. L. C.
e. Name of the Project: Coralville Lake Hydropower Project
f. Location: The project would be located on the Iowa River in Johnson County, Iowa. The Coralville Lake Dam is owned and maintained by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. …
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Why do we wait for the obvious. What a waste of a magnificant source of energy. We have rebuilt the Iowa River dam in Coralville and again made no opportunity to harnass this resource. 100 years ago these rivers were the source of power and the reason for moving industry and communities to these shores. Now while we try to harnass the wind, the obvious sources are totally ignored. Even in Amana, they continue to use power from substantially less moving water, and we seem helpless to get someone to see that we need to get into the 19th. Century had use these resources.