Relicense the Conowingo hydroelectric plant

  ·  George Hamilton, Star Democrat   ·   Link to Article

The debate over relicensing Exelon to operate the Conowingo hydroelectric generating plant due to the sediment and nutrients washing down the Susquehanna River seems misplaced. One would get the impression that running the electric turbines somehow creates silt and phosphorus rather than electricity. The sediment and nutrients come from runoff in central Pennsylvania and New York State. Some seem to think that the dam created the accumulated silt and nutrients in the lake behind the dam, but those too came from upstream, and if there had been no dam to block them, they would have been washing into the Chesapeake for the past 85 years.



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