Fourth Generator Sought At Dworshak

Sun., March 2, 1997

Associated Press

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has received a proposal to add a fourth hydroelectric unit to Dworshak Dam.

Dworshak manager Charles Krahenbuhl said a consultant to Utah Power & Light Co. has proposed installing a 40-megawatt generator at the dam near Ahsahka along the Clearwater River’s North Fork. That is half the size of two of the three generators now operating at the dam.

A similar proposal by the corps to build a much bigger generator more than a decade ago prompted protests from steelhead anglers. The large unit proposed then would have caused wild fluctuations in river levels.

Krahenbuhl said the new proposal came from consultant Mark Steinley, who suggested that Utah Power & Light was interested. The small generating unit would be sized to operate at full efficiency with the 1,200 cubic feet of water a second dam must release as a minimum flow in the North Fork.

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