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Issue 267, March 267
In this issue:
Lock maintenance period ends; Little Goose requires additional repair
PNWA Board Member Byron Hanke appointed to the national power policy
maker group
Port of Longview director elected AAPA Chairman-elect of the Board
PNWA staff featured in new episode of Modern Marvels: Dams
Lock maintenance period ends; Little
Goose requires additional repair
The routine lock maintenance
closures end this weekend for seven of the eight dams on the Columbia and Snake Rivers.
Bonneville and The Dalles
will reopen ahead of schedule, at 6:00 pm, Friday, March 23. All of the
other locks, but one, will open on schedule at midnight, the evening of
Saturday, March 24.
The lone exception is Little
Goose. Additional repairs will be required to address a problem with the
lock gate. A construction company and Corps staff are on site, assessing the
problem and preparing a work plan. Preliminary analysis indicates that the
reopening of Little Goose lock will be delayed about four days, until March
29. At that time, the Corps will use a floating bulkhead in place of the
gate to open and close the lock. Use of the floating bulkhead will increase
lockage time, but will keep the lock operating until the gate repair is
completed. The current estimate is that the gate will return to full
operability by May 1.
Barge traffic and passenger
vessels will continue to be locked through. Recreational boats will not be
permitted to use the lock until repairs are completed. It is expected that
lockages will be scheduled during nighttime hours. Repair work will
continue during the day.
PNWA will keep its members posted if there is a change to this
schedule. Staff contact: Glenn Vanselow.
PNWA Board Member Byron Hanke appointed to the national
power policy maker group
PNWA would like to congratulate
Byron Hanke on being appointed to a three-year term on the American Public
Power Association�s Policy Makers Council.�
Commissioner Hanke currently serves as Vice President of the board
for Clark Public Utilities and is a member of PNWA�s Board of Directors.� He previously spent 15 years as the
executive director of the Port
of Vancouver and
served in a series of management positions during his career with Clark
PUD.� As a member of the Policy
Makers Council, Commissioner Hanke will provide assistance to APPA
regarding the issues and federal legislation that are important to public
power systems.
Port of Longview director elected AAPA Chairman-elect of the Board
Port of Longview
Executive Director Ken O�Hollaren was elected
Chairman-elect of the Board of the American Association of Port Authorities
(AAPA) during their Spring Conference earlier this week in Washington, DC.� O�Hollaren will be formally installed as
chairman of the board at the AAPA Annual Convention this fall in Norfolk, VA.� He is currently Chairman of the AAPA
Projects and Publications Committee.
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O�Hollaren has been Executive
Director of the Port
of Longview since
January 1988.� He joined the Port of Longview as assistant operations
manager in 1980 and later became assistant to the executive director.� His career began in Portland in 1978 as operations manager
for Overseas Shipping Company and Evergreen Line.� O�Hollaren received a B.S. from the University of Oregon
and an M.B.A. from the University
of Portland.
PNWA Staff featured in new episode of
Modern Marvels: Dams
The History Channel�s Modern Marvels series will premier a new
episode focusing on dams at 10:00 pm (pacific time) Wednesday, March 28.
The program will repeat at 7:00 pm (pacific) March 31 and then be in
continuous rotation in coming months.
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One of the five segments of the hour-long program focuses on the
dams of the Columbia Snake River System. PNWA Executive Director Glenn
Vanselow is featured, speaking on the navigation and hydropower benefits of
the river system. PNWA staff previewed this segment and we were given an
opportunity to comment on the script. The eight-minute segment contains
about three minutes on navigation, one minute on hydropower and four
minutes on fish.
We were not able to preview the other four segments, but the
following description from the Modern Marvels web site gives a hint at what
to expect:
Modern Marvels: Dams
They block the force of a river, produce enough
electricity to power cities, move water over hundreds of miles and irrigate
fertile valleys. Dams prevent floods and produce "green" energy.
We'll visit a hydroelectric dam, the most technologically advanced type of
dam, and a dam in Brazil
that is five times the size of the Hoover
Dam. At the Utah State University
Water Research Laboratory Hydraulics Lab in Logan, Utah,
we watch a model of a dam crumble beneath tons of water and discuss how
future dam failures can be averted. We will learn how dams adversely affect
river systems and as a result, there are many proponents of dam removal.
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Northwest Waterways
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