Omaha World Herald
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is asking for an explanation of the flooding that would occur should a dam break upstream of two Nebraska nuclear plants it monitors.
Combined, the six U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dams on the flood-swollen Missouri River comprise one of the largest reservoir systems in the country. The dams are releasing historic amounts of water during what will be a summer of managed flooding in the Missouri River valley.
On Wednesday, the NRC regional office that oversees Nebraska sent an official request to the corps for its 2009 and 2010 analyses of what would happen if a dam fails.
Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station, 19 miles north of Omaha, has been taken offline because of the flooding. The river surrounds the plant to a depth of about two feet.
About 70 miles south of Omaha, Cooper Nuclear Station remains online. On Thursday, the river was about three feet below the level that would require the plant to shut down.
Anton Vegel, director of the division of reactor safety for the Arlington, Tex., office of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission made the request to Col. Robert J. Ruch, commander of the Omaha District of the corps. The Omaha district oversees the dams.
READ ARTICLE and view VIDEO:
http://www.omaha.com/article/20110630/NEWS01/110639977#nuke-query-what-if-dam-breaks
KFAB.com Omaha | Corps of Engineers - along with Fish & Wildlife Service, EPA, UN Agenda 21 freaks, and Congress - got caught with their pants down
got caught with their pants down ...and the pallid sturgeon in the bed next to them.
A picture from the Fish and Wildlife Service of an Army Corps of Engineers employee with a pallid sturgeon.
Though the letter from the Brigadier General that leads the report talks about the "much above" average runoff in 2009 and 2010, according to pages 3 and 4 of THIS REPORT, the Army Corps of Engineers only considered up to 2006 when planning on the 2010-2012 management of the reservoirs, dams, and the river.
Why not include the recent wet years? Why not consult the weather experts? Because, as it says on page 4 of the Corps' Annual Operating Report (linked above), 'forecasting future precipitation is very difficult."
That may be, but that's exactly what the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration does! If fact, had the Corps consulted THIS REPORT FROM THE NOAA, they would have realized how wrong they were to err on the side of drought rather than flood.
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2010/20101021_winteroutlook.html
Did they think 2011 was going to be a drought year because their 1998-2006 data (mostly drought years) told them so?
Or did they plan on some flooding this year to influence landowners
(http://www.kfab.com/pages/voorhees.html?article=8760398)
http://www.kfab.com/pages/voorhees.html?article=8760398
The Corps always says they just follow orders. Well, one of their owners was to get that riverside land ... a little flooding might do the trick. When the huge snow and rain erupted, the little flood they hoped for turned into this big, scary flood.
Corps of Engineers "Gavins Point Dam video" setting out how Gavins PointDam is designed to be able to release up to 584,000 cfs - currently releasing 160,000 cfs
American Dream | Is The Mainstream Media Covering Up The Truth At Los Alamos, Ft. Calhoun And Fukushima? June 30, 2011
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/is-the-mainstream-media-covering-up-the-truth-at-los-alamos-ft-calhoun-and-fukushima
Floodwaters Breach Levee Along Missouri River, Closes part of I-29 from exit 24 near Bartlett, Iowa, south to Rock Port, Mo
June 30, 2011
Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson is concerned the Army Corps of Engineers is not taking the state's two nuclear power plants into consideration in flood plans.
Corps of Engineers have scheduled releases from their North Dakota's Garrison Dam to be decreased in increments from 140,000 cfs to 110,000 cfs by July 29th
http://www.bismarcktribune.com/news/state-and-regional/article_24ada8a8-a29e-11e0-a353-001cc4c03286.html
Nebraska nuclear plant threatened by flooding is safe, scientists group finds
The Union of Concerned Scientists, one of the nuclear-power industry's toughest critics, sprang into action when the Missouri River flood threatened the Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant in Nebraska.
Wow! Nebraska official nuclear evacuation map!
* THE FORT CALHOUN NUCLEAR POWER PLANT PLANNING AREA
* Radiological Emergency Preparedness
RELATED:
Cotter Corp. has Colorado's OK to dump radioactive sludge into leaking pond
State health officials are letting Cotter Corp. dump 90,000 gallons of radioactive sludge and solvents from its uranium mill into an impoundment pond the agency knows to be leaking.
Fort Calhoun Station EPZ Evacuation Route Map
http://www.nema.ne.gov/technological/ftcalhoun-evac.html
RadiationNetwork.com
**Cave Editor's Note: This morning Thurs 6-30-11 8 am CDT this site is no longer there??? Will be checking later.
NOAA Hydrologic - Water Level at Gavins Point Dam, near Ft. Calhoun and Cooper Nuclear Plants
(The following link takes a bit to load all data)
http://water.weather.gov/ahps2/river.php?wfo=oax&wfoid=18705&riverid=203276&view=1%2C1%2C1%2C1%2C1%2C1%2C1%2C1&toggles=10%2C7%2C8%2C2%2C9%2C15%2C6&pt[]=141614&pt[]=144183&pt[]=142396&pt[]=143355&allpoints=143990%2C145585%2C145025%2C145026%2C144876%2C145027%2C143234%2C143184%2C145519%2C145640%2C144217%2C142150%2C142780%2C142853%2C145202%2C141586%2C144582%2C143543%2C144796%2C144098%2C144240%2C141320%2C141614%2C142968%2C144183%2C142574%2C143478%2C142193%2C142760%2C142003%2C142610%2C142396%2C144496%2C147345%2C141899%2C143355%2C142050%2C141570%2C144165%2C143476%2C141703%2C142023%2C144123%2C141863%2C143539%2C143436%2C141917%2C143009%2C142688%2C142640%2C143925%2C143734%2C142729%2C141978%2C143579%2C143348%2C142822&data[]=all&submit=Make+my+River+Page%21#bron1
BLAIR, NEBRASKA NEAR FT. CALHOUN NUCLEAR POWER PLANT
BROWNVILLE, NE - NEAR COOPER NUCLEAR PLANT
RESERVOIR CONTROL CENTER REPORTS
Link to daily report:
June 29, 2011
The Cave's Archive: NW DIVISION OF THE US ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS RESERVOIR CONTROL CENTER DAILY REPORT
Link: THE CAVE'S OVERFLOW - Archive of the Cave's Daily Flood of 2011 Updates
