Cayuga Power Plant – Cooling Water Intake System – Jan 2017 Page | 1 MAKAI OCEAN ENGINEERING ISO90011:2008 Certified P.O. Box 1206 Kailua, Hawaii, USA 96734 PH (808) 259-8871 FX (808) 259-8238 [email protected]www.makai.com A rendering of the cooling water intakes that were installed this winter; note the scale of the tiny divers next to the massive intake screens! Recently, regulatory authorities have increased enforcement of the Environmental Protection Agency’s 316(b) regulations, which regulates facilities that withdraw at least 2 million gallons per day from waters of the U.S. The law aims to reduce the environmental impact of natural cooling water use on the ecosystem by reducing fish and larvae entrainment and impingement. The EPA expects that these regulations will affect more than one thousand electric power plants, pulp and paper mills, chemical plants, iron / steel / aluminum manufacturing, petroleum refineries, and food processing plants across the country. 316(b) can impose engineering challenges for system operators. Makai Ocean Engineering has completed the final design of an intake retrofit for one of the 316(b) affected power plants, owned by the Cayuga Operating Company, in Upstate New York and drawing water from Cayuga Lake. This facility required a new array of screen assemblies totaling several thousand square feet of screen area and weighing more than 50 tons.
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Cayuga Power Plant – Cooling Water Intake System – Jan 2017