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4May/10

The Gavin Power Plant

These images were taken on a recent tour of the Gavin Power Plant in Cheshire Ohio with Matthew Friday's art and ecology class.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

The coal-fired Gavin Power Plant inCheshire, Ohio

General James M. Gavin Power Plant is a 2.6-Gigawatt coal-fired power station in Cheshire, Ohio, USA operated by American Electric Power. Named after James M. Gavin, it is the largest coal fired power facility in Ohio, and one of the largest in the nation. Its two units, rated at 1300 MWe each, were launched into service in 1974 and 1975.^[1]

The plant is located at 38°56′09″N 82°07′00″W
, just 2.5 km (1.6 mi) upstream along the Ohio River from a smaller, older coal-fired Kyger Creek Power Plant.

References

^ "Existing Electric Generating Units in the United States, 2006" (Excel). Energy Information Administration, U.S. Department of Energy. 2006. Retrieved 2008-07-14

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19Apr/09

A Plastic River

Video of the log jam in the Hocking River that is collecting all the garbage that normally floats down the 20 something miles to the Ohio not quite 800 miles later it merges into the Mississippi River only 950 miles from it's new home in the Gulf of Mexico and the greater Ocean System.