BOARD02267

• Board Meeting Date: 5/27/1968
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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without affecting, as you will see in the next
one or two slides, many of the nonmodal organisms
found in the bottom of the stream. We feel that
this is extremely significant in as far as
methods of introducing heated effluents into a
water area.

I

Just some of the instrumentation and some
of the techniques we used (presenting another
slide), nothing profound or nothing unusual in
here but just the project area and obviously,
I think, the very fine natural laboratory that
We had been working with in that zone.

May I have the final slide? I think this
one probably exemplifies as much as anything
this interesting phenomenon of laminar affect
of surface waters. You notice the hand of my
son is placed in at a cool zone and brought
underneath water that is coming in at approxi-
mately 180 degrees fahrenheit at the surface.
Now this 180 degree water is staying right at
the surface and you notice that the plants
which are not capable of living in hot water
will grow up as high as that heated water and
then they are burned off. This is a very con-
stant thing. In that same pool you will find
organisms such as glamers, scud, some people
call it a fresh water type of shrimp. Anyway
this organism which is indicative of quality
water of a cool stream will be living in these
columns perhaps no more than four to six inches
high with the hot water on top. We feel it is
very exciting and we feel that there are a lot
of potentials. This is where some of the
present effort is going now into trying to
equate this into possible ways of mitigating
damage of thermal pollution in such areas as
the thermal reactor sites.

I

Last year I made many trips to the area
on the Platte River where the thermal reactor
plant is going in, hopefully to try to estab-
lish some before and after sequences. One of
the problems there I think is quite obvious to
most of you. That is, the magnitude of the