by Champlain Division
Now, I'm very technical-minded, and yet, I can't figure out how this thing works. Seems like the proverbial perpetual motion machine. Seeing as it involves an old customer of the D&H I thought it might bear some discussion. How might this technology benefit Lyon Mountain?
From today's Plattsburgh Press Republican Newspaper Website Business Section
Hydropower proposal
Firm eyes old Moriah mines for power-generating plant
By LOHR McKINSTRY, Staff Writer
MINEVILLE — An Albany firm has plans to build a hydro-electric generating plant inside Moriah’s old iron mines. The $38.5 million project would produce electricity by recirculating water in three mineshafts and selling it to Niagara Mohawk Power Corp.
Albany Engineering has proposed putting seven generating turbines more than 1,000 feet below the surface, in upper and lower reservoirs connected by seven 96-inch-diameter penstocks.
The Mineville Pump Storage Project, as it’s being called, would take 30 months to build once the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approves it.
A public informational meeting is scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 15, at the Mineville Veterans of Foreign Wars Post.
James Besha, the engineer on the project, said the mines being proposed were closed in the 1970s by Republic Steel.
"The Mineville Pumped Storage Project will utilize the existing Harmony, Old Bed and New Bed mines.
"Interested parties can view the project development site (at the meeting) and discuss Moriah Hydro’s proposal for the project."
The Harmony Mine would be the principal shaft for the project. The three mines have filled with ground water, which the firm proposes to pump out to create the reservoirs.
Moriah Town Supervisor Thomas Scozzafava supports the Mineville Pump Storage Project.
"It’s a good use for those mines," Scozzafava said.
"With the energy crunch we’re in, it’s a good project. It would create one or two new jobs."
Scozzafava said the project would greatly increase the value of those mines.
"It would certainly increase the tax base."
Albany Engineering has created a local company, Moriah Hydro Corp., for the project. Financing is expected to be from long-term private bonds.
Land would be leased from Rhodia Corp. of Cranbury, N.J., the successor to Republic Steel, and X-Earth of Elizabethtown, the company that has subsurface mineral rights to the property.
From today's Plattsburgh Press Republican Newspaper Website Business Section
Hydropower proposal
Firm eyes old Moriah mines for power-generating plant
By LOHR McKINSTRY, Staff Writer
MINEVILLE — An Albany firm has plans to build a hydro-electric generating plant inside Moriah’s old iron mines. The $38.5 million project would produce electricity by recirculating water in three mineshafts and selling it to Niagara Mohawk Power Corp.
Albany Engineering has proposed putting seven generating turbines more than 1,000 feet below the surface, in upper and lower reservoirs connected by seven 96-inch-diameter penstocks.
The Mineville Pump Storage Project, as it’s being called, would take 30 months to build once the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approves it.
A public informational meeting is scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 15, at the Mineville Veterans of Foreign Wars Post.
James Besha, the engineer on the project, said the mines being proposed were closed in the 1970s by Republic Steel.
"The Mineville Pumped Storage Project will utilize the existing Harmony, Old Bed and New Bed mines.
"Interested parties can view the project development site (at the meeting) and discuss Moriah Hydro’s proposal for the project."
The Harmony Mine would be the principal shaft for the project. The three mines have filled with ground water, which the firm proposes to pump out to create the reservoirs.
Moriah Town Supervisor Thomas Scozzafava supports the Mineville Pump Storage Project.
"It’s a good use for those mines," Scozzafava said.
"With the energy crunch we’re in, it’s a good project. It would create one or two new jobs."
Scozzafava said the project would greatly increase the value of those mines.
"It would certainly increase the tax base."
Albany Engineering has created a local company, Moriah Hydro Corp., for the project. Financing is expected to be from long-term private bonds.
Land would be leased from Rhodia Corp. of Cranbury, N.J., the successor to Republic Steel, and X-Earth of Elizabethtown, the company that has subsurface mineral rights to the property.
Richard E. "Rick" Shivik
HO D&H Champlain Division
Piedmont Division NMRA
Conyers,GA
HO D&H Champlain Division
Piedmont Division NMRA
Conyers,GA