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Richard B. Russell Reservoir ,
South Carolina & Georgia
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Richard B. Russell Dam
- 210 feet tall concrete-gravity embankment dam
- Total length of 5,224 feet, with the concrete section spanning 1,904 feet
- Built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers between 1974 and 1985
- Hydro-power plant with an installed 600MW capacity
- Located on the Savannah River at the border of South Carolina and Georgia -- creating the Richard B. Russell Lake with a surface area of 2,890 square miles
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Richard B. Russell Oxygen Diffuser System
Objective
- Dissolved oxygen enhancement of hydropower releases
Facilities
- 10 diffuser lines, 42,000 feet total
- 20,500 feet of supply lines
- 200-tons/day oxygen delivery capacity
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| Line diffuser layout |
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| Unloading pipe |
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| Pipe welding station |
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| Pouring the concrete weights |
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| Buried supply lines from LOx tanks to lake |
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| Floating completed diffuser line |
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| Depth finder view of the bubbles from the diffuser |
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Publications and References
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Mark H. Mobley, Steve Adams, John Hains, James Sykes
Presented at NALMS 2003
Foxwood Resort
November 5, 2003
Mashantucket, Connecticut
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