The electric power industry faces numerous challenges in the coming decade. These include shifts in fuels, increasing pressures from the public and environmental advocacy groups, regulatory changes for air, water, and coal-burning byproducts. Along with such challenges, high-profile events like the tsunami that struck Fukushima, Japan, are reshaping plans and decisions for producing and delivering electricity.
Many Geosyntec practitioners will make significant contributions to the World of Coal Ash (WOCA) Conference 2022 on May 16 through 19, 2022 in Covington, Kentucky.
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Geosyntec's project, Humboldt Bay Power Plant Decommissioning-Caisson Removal, was named one of Engineering News-Record (ENR) California's Best Projects for 2018 Specialty Construction on October 2, 2018.
Jamey Rosen (Ontario), Daniel Woeste (Illinois), and Mustafa Erten (Texas) will be presenting at the DFI International Conference on Deep Foundations, Seepage Control, and Remediation at the New York Marriott Marquis on October 14-15, 2016.
In December 2008 a slope stability failure at a fly ash disposal facility in the United States caused significant environmental impacts to surface water. Consequently, the electric utility industry was concerned about static liquefaction of fly ash that could lead to failures at other facilities. The utilities, through the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), retained Geosyntec to conduct research into fly ash geotechnical properties and static liquefaction.
The project site is a nearly 400-acre fly ash disposal basin for a very large, coal-fired electricity generating facility in Michigan. The fly ash disposal basin is enclosed by a 3.5-mile long, 40-foot high, compacted clay embankment.
Geosyntec's client, a power plant in Ohio, generates electricity from two, 1,300-MW, coal-fired units. In anticipation of upcoming federal coal combustion residuals (CCR) regulations, the client decided to initiate closure design for a 300-acre fly ash pond. The site also features a high hazard dam. Acid mine drainage (AMD) from around the reservoir reduces the pH of the water and is currently treated in the reservoir.
An American Electric Power plant in Ohio generates electricity from two, 1,300-MW, coal-fired units. The client's objective for the project was to have additional capacity for residual waste disposal available at a reasonable construction cost before the existing coal ash residual waste landfill (RWL) reached capacity in approximately 18 months.
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