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FERC No Hydro Electric Plant Left Behind Multiple-Choice Assement

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FERC No Hydro Plant left behind multiple choice

Who is Nevada Hydro?

Voices from the past

Or, as the FERC stated in Section 4.1.3 of the Final Environmental Impact Statement (see Section 4, pdf):

Although the proposed concrete-faced rock fill dam is not one of the conceptual designs presented by the co-applicants [Nevada Hydro and EVMWD] in exhibit F (figure F-2), it is probably the most suitable dam type for a seismically active region and for a reservoir subject to the rapid filling and drawdown associated with a pumped storage facility. Our review questions the co-applicants’ proposed use of a random earth fill dam because of the risk of settlement and cracking of the facing.

Now, anyone of us could have gotten that question wrong. But then, anyone of us is not trying to win a license to build a reservoir over two communities (Lakeland Village, San Juan Capistrano) and over a known geological fault.