Mobley Engineering

Design and installation of aeration systems for hydropower, water supply reservoirs and other applications

Mobley Engineering
Richard B. Russell Reservoir , 
South Carolina & Georgia 





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

 

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

 
Layout

Line diffuser layout
 
 

Site Pictures


Unloading pipe
 
Pipe welding station
Pouring the concrete weights
Buried supply lines from LOx tanks to lake
Floating completed diffuser line
Depth finder view of the bubbles from the diffuser
 
 

Publications and References


 

Richard B. Russell Oxygen Diffuser System Replacement 
Mark H. Mobley, Steve Adams, John Hains, James Sykes

Presented at NALMS 2003
Foxwood Resort
November 5, 2003
Mashantucket, Connecticut

 


Mobley Engineering, Inc. • PO Box 600 Norris, Tennessee 37828
phone (865) 494-0600 • fax (865) 494-0611
Email: info@mobleyengineering.com

  Mobley Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved.

Home

About MEI

Projects

Hydropower

Temperature Control

Water Supply

Fish Habitat

Natural Lakes

TVA

Technologies

Hydropower Enhancements

Water Supply Enhancements

Publications

MEI Publications

Related Publications

Reference Publications

Video

Links

Upcoming Events

Professional Associations

News Worthy

Our Favorites

Boyette

C.W. Young Reservoir, FL

Dam Tour

Almaden Reservoir, CA

Pleasant Lake, MN

Guadalupe Reservoir, CA

Buzzard's Roost, SC

Falling Creek, VA

Tippy Dam, MI

Lake Wallenpaupak, PA

Upper San Leandro, CA

Occoquan, VA

Buzzards Roost, SC 2012

Lake Vadnais, MN

Lake Tillery, NC