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	Taum Sauk Power Plant
		The Taum Sauk Plant is located approximately 120 miles southwest of St. Louis in the scenic Ozark highlands.
		Taum Sauk is used primarily on a peaking basis and is put into operation when the demand for electricity is greatest.
		The pump storage system works much like a dam, but is usually used only to meet daily peak power demands for short periods.
	www.ameren.com /aboutus/adc_au_taumsauk.asp (133 words)

	Causes of the Taum Sauk Reservoir Breach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Taum Sauk Reservoir was the last newly constructed dumped rockfill CFRD in the U.S.A. Another CFRD, Cabin Creek Upper Reservoir Dam, Colorado was designed at the same time, but it was designed as a compacted rockfill.
		The “dirty” rockfill at Taum Sauk had as much as 45 percent sand and was not free-draining for flows imposed by overtopping.
		Taum Sauk Upper Reservoir had a long history of settlement and leakage with many periods of concern and repair, but the embankment and parapet wall successfully held water for 42 years.
	missouri.sierraclub.org /SierranOnline/2006/07/taum_sauk.html (1939 words)

	Taum Sauk Dam Failure - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The upper reservoir of the Taum Sauk pumped storage plant in southeast Missouri breached at 5:13 AM CST, December 14, 2005.
		The Taum Sauk pumped storage plant is located in the St.
		In a strange twist of fate, the Taum Sauk Dam failed exactly 42 years after another famous American reservoir disaster, the Baldwin Hills Reservoir failure of December 14, 1963.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Taum_Sauk_Dam_Failure (614 words)

	Taum Sauk Hydroelectric Storage Plant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Taum Sauk Hydroelectric Storage Plant in Missouri is one of the largest stand-alone pumped storage plants.
		The Taum Sauk Hydroelectric Storage Plant was engineered to take power from other sources during part of the day and supply energy during other hours.
		The facility is made of four parts: a 55-acre reservoir at the top of a mountain, a 7000-foot-long tunnel, a powerhouse with two reversible pump-turbine units, and a lower reservoir formed by a dam.
	www.nae.edu /nae/cwe/egmain.nsf/(weblinks)/ESER-5K5LLV?opendocument (117 words)

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		The topography of taum Sauk is that of a somewhat flat ridge rather than a peak.
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	AAA - Travel - Day Tours
		Located in the rugged St. Francois Mountains, Taum Sauk Mountain State Park is one of the state's most outstanding wild areas.
		Taum Sauk Mountain and several other igneous domelike mountains in the park are situated in the heart of the 5,000-square-mile St. Francois Mountains, the geologic core of the Ozark Highlands.
		The glades are home to many unusual desert-adapted plants and animals, such as the sundrop flower and eastern collared lizard.
	www.ouraaa.com /news/travel/auto-travel/daytours/mozarks.html (1356 words)

	International Group Declares AmerenUE's Taum Sauk Plant an Engineering 'Milestone' -- AmerenUE Donates $1,000 to Local ...
		"This plant is a source of significant local tax revenue and a facility that is critical to meeting daily peaking power demands of the citizens of this state and region," Voss added.
		The Taum Sauk plant includes four primary features: the upper reservoir atop Proffit Mountain, a 7,000-foot-long shaft and tunnel, a power house with two reversible pump turbine units and a lower reservoir formed by a dam across the East Fork of the Black River.
		The plant is also unique because it can generate electricity even in the absence of grid power-making it critical for re-starting the system in the unlikely event of a wide-spread flout.
	www.wtoctv.com /Global/story.asp?S=3900026 (726 words)

	IEEE History Center: Taum Sauk Pumped-Storage Electric Power Plant, 1963
		The Taum Sauk Plant, when it came on-line in 1963, was the largest pure pumped-storage electric power plant in North America.
		The Taum Sauk Plant, when it came on-line in 1963, was the largest pure pumped-storage electric power plant in North America, producing 350 MW of power.
		The Taum Sauk Project is located in the Ozark Highlands on the east fork of the Black River 90 miles southwest of St. Louis, Missouri.
	www.ieee.com /web/aboutus/history_center/taum_sauk.html (339 words)

	Taum Sauk pumped storage plant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An aerial photo of the upper reservoir of the Taum Sauk plant before it was destroyed.
		However, the plant was still economical to operate – the reservoir was filled at night when the electrical generation system is running at baseline capacity, and the power used for pump-back would otherwise be wasted.
		That the Taum Sauk reservoir remains (37d32m10s N, 90d49m05s W) are atop Proffit Mountain and not Taum Sauk Mountain (37d34m13s N, 90d43m40s W) is often a source of confusion to tourists seeking to visit the site.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Taum_Sauk_pumped_storage_plant (1330 words)

	Hydroelectric Power Plant
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		The first such project was EMO Sayany, a merger of the Sayano-Shushensk Hydroelectric Plant...
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	International Water Power and Dam Construction
		He pointed to the plant's economic impact on the nearby community as a source of employment and significant local tax revenue.
		Taum Sauk Plant also plays a unique role in Ameren's system because of its ability to begin generating electricity in the unlikely event of a loss of grid power.
		Built in 1963, the hydroelectric plant stored water from the Black river in the upper reservoir, built atop the 484.6m high Proffit Mountain and released the water to generate electricity when power was needed.
	www.waterpowermagazine.com /story.asp?sectionCode=130&storyCode=2041908 (510 words)

	Archives - Bringing electricity from a mountain top
		The plant stores water by pumping to its upper reservoir during times when demand for electricity is low and then releases the water to generate electricity when demand is high.
		The plant, which has been part of the Reynolds County community for the past 41 years, produces electricity that is sent along high-voltage transmission lines to substations, where it is distributed to customers.
		Taum Sauk stores water by pumping to its upper reservoir during times when demand for electricity is low and then releases the water to generate electricity when demand is high.
	www.mydjconnection.com /articles/2005/10/02/community/news1.txt (1113 words)

	Dexter Daily Statesman: Story: FERC: AmerenUE could have prevented Taum Sauk collapse
		AmerenUE violated a number of federal regulations at the hydroelectric plant before it overflowed and was aware of critical problems at the plant for months prior to the breach, said FERC Chairman Joseph Kelliher, and despite the dangers did not fix or close down the plant.
		Taum Sauk superintendent Richard Cooper reported the September overtopping in an e-mail to other managers two days later.
		The Taum Sauk Reservoir is a 1.5 billion gallon reservoir that covers 50 acres in Reynolds County and feeds a 440-megawatt pump storage hydroelectric plant.
	www.dailystatesman.com /story/1171190.html (799 words)

	americasroof news » Blog Archive » Groups Fear Taum Sauk Fallout Will Nuke Missouri
		Three Taum Sauk plants would be the equivalent of one nuclear power plant — a powerful argument in the debate over whether to go green and self renewable via hydro and walking to hazardous nuke path.
		The other irony is that Taum Sauk actually was built to produce more power than the Lake of the Ozarks plant (that plant generates around 216 megawatts) even though the Lake of the Ozarks has 86 miles of shoreline (compared with 1 mile circumferance of the Upper Taum Sauk Reservoir).
		The writer seems to be under the misapprehension that the Taum Sauk pumped storage plant was a hydroelectric generating plant - it was not.
	americasroof.com /wp/archives/2006/02/08/groups-fear-taum-sauk-fallout-will-nuke-missouri (689 words)

	seMissourian.com: Story: AmerenUE was told reservoir might fail
		Richard Cooper, superintendent of Ameren's Taum Sauk Hydroelectric Plant, said in his Sept. 27 e-mail that the overflow had washed away rock at the base of the reservoir wall, leaving trenches a foot deep in some areas.
		But the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which regulates Taum Sauk and is investigating its failure, wasn't aware of the Sept. 25 overflow until last week, according to a letter issued to Ameren on Friday.
		The 55-acre Taum Sauk reservoir, near Lesterville, Mo., is the upper part of a pumped-storage plant designed to meet peak daytime electricity needs.
	www.semissourian.com /story/1135500.html (745 words)

	Missouri Parks AssociationHome Page
		The Taum Sauk area in the heart of the St. Francois Mountains at the geologic core of the Ozarks is wildness incarnate.
		The "Taum Sauk Trail" was dedicated in April 1958, and since then the "wildest walk in Missouri" has been a seminal experience in the lives of well over 25,000 Boy Scouts and countless others who have here taken the measure of the Ozarks and of themselves.
		Taum Sauk Mountain at 1772 feet is the highest point in Missouri, and Taum Sauk Creek flows through the deepest valley (in terms of elevation differential).
	parks.missouri.org /heri0801.htm (3363 words)

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	Daily Dunklin Democrat: Story: FERC continues its investigation into Taum Sauk reservoir failure
		Although the breach occurred in Reynolds County, news of the Taum Sauk Dam incident spread rapidly across Southeast Missouri and is still a hot topic of conversation for some.
		The Taum Sauk Pumped Storage Project No. 2277--owned by AmerenUE--is a 1.5 billion gallon reservoir that covers 50 acres in Reynolds County and feeds a 440-megawatt pump storage hydroelectric plant.
		The town of Lesterville, located 10 miles south of the Taum Sauk reservoir, and Highway N were also evacuated as a precaution in case of heavy flooding.
	www.dddnews.com /story/1134237.html (843 words)

	IEEE Milestones Selected for Physics and Power
		“The Taum Sauk Power Plant is a one-of-the-kind plant that uses the same equipment to pump water uphill at night and let it flow back downhill in daytime,” notes Jim Leonard, the history chair for Region 5 (Southwestern United States).
		The Taum Sauk plant also employed an early remote-control electrical system to switch on the generating units and auxiliary systems from 160 kilometers away.
		When the plant opened, engineers in St. Louis could load and unload units of electricity to the grid at the push of a button.
	www.theinstitute.ieee.org /portal/site/tionline/menuitem.130a3558587d56e8fb2275875bac26c8/index.jsp?&pName=institute_level1_article&TheCat=1008&article=tionline/legacy/inst2005/sep05/9w.his.xml& (625 words)

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		We have assumed responsibility for the effects of the breach and are moving as quickly as possible to repair the damage caused by the breach." Rainwater requested continued patience on the part of the public as all regulatory agencies and the company work to complete this investigatory process.
		BACKGROUND: On Dec. 14 the AmerenUE Taum Sauk Plant experienced a breach in the upper reservoir that caused flooding in the Johnson Shut-ins and resulted in the closing of one road.
		The plant¡¦s 1.5-billion-gallon upper reservoir experienced a rupture in the northwest corner causing water to flow downward.
	www.ksdk.com /printfullstory.aspx?storyid=91025 (1221 words)

	Funmurphys: the Blog: Taum Sauk Dam Fails
		The dam that failed is part of a hydro electric battery which consists of an upper reservoir connected to a lower reservoir by a tunnel that houses electricity generating turbines and pumps.
		Base-load power plants are most efficient generating electricity at an even, consistent level, around the clock, and generally include nuclear, coal-fired, geothermal and waste-to-energy plants.
		Peaking plants are expensive to operate, often fueled by refined oil products, or natural gas, and have a fuel cost per kWh higher than a baseload plant.
	www.funmurphys.com /blog/archive/000996.html (528 words)

	E-mail warned that reservoir might fail - Columbia Missourian
		AmerenUE failed to report the Taum Sauk overflow to authorities.
		LOUIS — Less than three months before the Taum Sauk reservoir collapsed, a plant superintendent sent an e-mail to several AmerenUE supervisors warning about a possible collapse, according to a newspaper report.
		The 55-acre Taum Sauk reservoir, near Lesterville, is the upper part of a pumped-storage plant designed to meet peak daytime electricity needs.
	columbiamissourian.com /news/print.php?ID=17869 (713 words)

	Print Story - Taum Sauk dam fails
		The Taum Sauk facility was a $50 million dollar engineering feat built in the 1960s with the help of government funding.
		The water was pumped by two reversible pump-turbine generators through 7,000 feet of tunnel, 25 feet in diameter.
		Tom Sauk is one of three hyrdoelectric power plants in the AmerenUE system, but it operates differently than the Osage Plant and the Keokuk plant.
	www.mydjconnection.com /articles/2005/12/14/community/news1.prt (915 words)

	seMissourian.com: Story: Taum Sauk levee breaks
		Nearly 80 percent of the water in the storage basin of AmerenUE's Taum Sauk Hydroelectric Plant drained in a matter of minutes around 5:30 a.m.
		The Taum Sauk Hydroelectric Plant, built in 1963, consists of a lake behind a dam on the Black River and the 1.5 billion gallon storage basin atop Proffit Mountain.
		Water is pumped from the lake to the storage basin, where it descends through a 7,000-foot tunnel in the mountain to turn electric turbines.
	www.semissourian.com /story/1131499.html (1227 words)

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