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Duke begins raising Lake Keowee level

Independent-Mail
Tuesday, November 25, 2008

SENECA — Beginning today, the level on Lake Keowee will start to rise to 94.6 feet during the next several days, according to Jason Walls, a spokesman for Duke Energy at the Oconee Nuclear Station.

Lake Keowee was lowered during October in preparation for maintenance work at Oconee Nuclear Station. While the scheduled refueling outage at Oconee continues, the work on the intake structures was completed ahead of schedule allowing the lake to be raised earlier than initially planned, according to Walls.

The lake will come up approximately two feet from the current level. Full pond for Lake Keowee is 100 feet.

Lake Keowee was lowered in October by pumping water into Lake Jocassee. Now that the intake maintenance work is complete that water will be returned to Lake Keowee.

“We appreciate the patience of all our lake neighbors while the level of Keowee was lower than normal to safely complete work at Oconee Nuclear Station,” said Walls. “While the lake level is going up, we continue to be in an extreme drought and everyone should take the appropriate measures to conserve water.”

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Posted by huzzah on November 26, 2008 at 8:14 a.m.

I hope they get the lake level on Keowee raised quickly. It must be horrible to have the lake almost 6 feet below full pool. I certainly am glad that we don't have to deal with anything like 6 whole feet of missing water on Hartwell.

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