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What the units are doing, what the line crews are up to, what the estuary program found and what the Fund gave: the station's notices, newest first. The newsletter carries them to your door four times a year.
Before the winter storms: how the loop gets ready
Trimming, pole inspections, spare transformers in every yard and a storm roster of crews: what Grid Operations does every autumn before the first big Pacific system arrives.
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October open house at the visitor center
The visitor center opens its doors on a Saturday for the whole South Coast: the model control room, the fuel assembly mock-up, the estuary team's tanks and the line crew's bucket truck in the lot.
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A late-summer kelp bloom on the intake screens
Warm water and a run of calm days sent more drift kelp than usual into the offshore intake. The traveling screens handled it, and every strand went back to the sea.
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Four more casks on the pad
This summer's loading campaign moved the oldest used fuel from the Unit 1 pool into four steel-and-concrete casks. The pad now holds 28.
Read moreA new line crew for the South Coast Loop
Six line workers completed their apprenticeship this year and join the Gold Beach yard, bringing the loop's crews to five.
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Unit 2 back at full power after its refueling outage
A 31-day outage replaced a third of Unit 2's fuel, inspected the steam generators and overhauled a main feedwater pump. More than 900 contract workers joined the station's own staff for it.
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Elk calving closes the lower meadow road
The Roosevelt elk herd that grazes the station's meadows calves in the alders below the bluff. The lower meadow road closes to vehicles until the calves are up and moving.
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The Sixes River Fund's grants this year
A quarter of a million in grants to eleven South Coast organizations, from the harbor's ice plant to the Langlois library.
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The sirens sound at noon on the first Wednesday
What the monthly test means, why it is a steady three-minute tone, and what you would hear instead if it were not a test.
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Both units in the highest performance category again
The federal regulators' annual assessment letter placed Unit 1 and Unit 2 in the highest of their performance categories, with every indicator green.
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