BOARD00469

• Board Meeting Date: 5/12/1976
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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serves as a cofferdam, water will back up and submerge the trash racks
in the lower center, and it will fl~ctuate according to the downstream
demand.

(Slide) In every presentation we like to include a few mistakes. You
will notice that entire glassed-in area, which is designed to give
everybody a beautiful view of the mountains across the lake. We've got
a number of plywood .sheets in some of those windows. What happened was,
we got all those tinted thermopane windows in there ,and then all of a
sudden some of them started to pop out, about three o'clock in the
afternoon. So we called in an expert, with the thought that if it was
a design deficiency, we would pay for it. If it was the contractor's
fault, either in installation or fabrication of the manufacturer, the
contractor would pay for it. Fortunately, the contractor paid for ~t.
It didn't cost him much. The guy that came in to handle the situation
has been in retirement for ten or twenty years and he had forgotten that
consulting fees have increased immeasurably in that period of time. His
fee for investigating this thing was a hundred dollars a day, which
wasn't really too bad, so the contractor didn't get stuck too badly.

(Slide). Now, this view shows the power plant as it now stands and from
the roadside. Hig~ay 82 will pass along the lower portion of the
photograph, and there will be a parking lot and landscaping and so forth.
The dike ~n the background will be removed as the Highway 82 relocation.
This will be the principal visitors' center for the entire Fryingpan-
Arkansas Project.

(Slide) This shot shows the turbine unit being loaded into the runners
for the fi:r:st one hundred megawatt unit. The power plant itself is, I
believe, a hundred and ninety-one feet high and about twenty to twenty-
five feet of it will be exposed. So we've got in the neighborhood of
a hundred and sixty or a hundred and seventy feet that is under ground,
and these inspection galleries are those holes that go down through the
numerous floors within the structur~. They are designed so that turbine
runners can be pulled" generators can be pulled, and you can work on the
things. This particular equipment is being lowered by one of two very
huge overhead cranes located on the second deck of the power plant
structure.

(Slide) On the first floor, the visitors' center, this shows in progress
the construction of a circular section, which will contain various
exhibits and photographs, which will show some of the project's history
and some of the effort or acknowledge some of the effort that went into
planning and the achievement of authorization for the project. It will
also be shared by the Forest Service. They will have a certain amount
of space in there for the National Forest.

In other sections of the main floor, t~re will be, as I understand it,
some self-guided tours, some self-manipulated or whatever you want to
call it, slide shows and so forth. So the whole thing is geared to self-
guided inspection of the power plant, inspection of the project history
and Twin Lakes history and some various other things that have gone
into this entire project.

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