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Dutchman

Posted 3/31/2005 12:34 AM (#30383)
Subject: Missouri River troubles, this affects all of YOU

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Location: Sioux Falls, South Dakota

With the continued draught and low water levels drinking water and hydro electrtric power may become a impassable issue.

If it's not there you can't have it.

This effect may well affect states much farther away than the States fighting to retain water. Iowa, Minnesota and Nebraska all recieve electrical power for the dams. No more cheap power may lead to larger electrical bills.

The issue that is totally amazing is the Corp calculates the electrcal power value at $615 million dollars, the barge industry is $12 million dollars of government subsidized income, and the barge support industry requires $800 million annually of federal tax moneys to support river navigation. Am I the only one that gets this????????

I pasted and copied from this public record.

http://www.nap.edu/openbook/0309083141/html/97.html

Hydropower benefits are based on the costs of power generated by alternative systems, usually thermal-electric. Hydropower revenues, as distinct from benefits, are not based on competitive rates charged for the power because some of the power generated goes to customers such as rural electric cooperatives at preferred (less than market) rates. Power from the Pick–Sloan Missouri Program goes to 329 customers in a six-state area. Customers include municipalities, federal agencies, federal and other irrigation projects, rural electric cooperatives, public utility districts, and private utilities. Power goes outside the basin through interconnections to the Southwestern and Bonneville Power administrations, as well as to other areas served by the Western Area Power Administration.

The Corps states that of all the project purposes that justify the Missouri River system, hydropower provides the largest national economic benefit, with an annualized value that was no less than $615 million in the Corps’ study of operating alternatives (USACE, 1994c). Larger values were obtained when flows were modified for the environmental alternatives. Hydropower benefits accrue principally to municipalities (35.7 percent) and to rural electric cooperatives (40.7 percent). In the regional economic allocation, the principal benefiting states are Nebraska (27.3 percent), Minnesota (21.1 percent), and South Dakota (18.6 percent). North Dakota, Iowa, and Montana share the remaining third of benefits (USACE, 1998c). Existing hydropower facilities provide an average of 9.5 million megawatt-hours, or about 9 percent of the energy used in WAPA’s Mid-Continent Area Power Pool. The six dams in the system—from Fort Peck to Gavins Point—harness 764 of the 1,090 feet of fall from the pool of Fort Peck to the tailwaters of Gavins Point. Nearly all of the water that flows into the Missouri River is used for power generation because flood storage is rarely spilled, and the irrigation withdrawals for the federal projects at Garrison and Oahe, which were expected to divert 3.8 million acre-feet annually.
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Decreased water levels have created decrease head pressure at the dams....When you run out of water.....if you can't figure it out I ain't gonna tell ya!!!

E-mail and call your congressional leaders and Senators, then call the President,(he doesn't take my calls but it may be your day) the COE needs to change. If this continues many more than the people of Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota will suffer.... We need your help............

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