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Taum Sauk, Missouri: Rebuild a failed hydropower reservoir?

By: Rebecca Sherman  Monday July 16, 2007
Region: National | Midwest
Key Words: dam failure | NEPA | safety
States: Missouri

Last week was the deadline for comments on FERC's draft Environmental Assessment on the rebuilding of the Taum Sauk project's upper reservoir. In December 2005, the pumped storage hydroelectric project failed, sending more than one billions gallons of water into a popular state park.