Photos of AmerenUE’s Taum Sauk Plant
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Taum Sauk includes the 1.5 billion-gallon upper reservoir, in the upper left of this photo, and the generating plant itself, in the lower center. A 7,000-foot-long tunnel joins the two. Water flows through the tunnel to the plant to generate electricity.
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The 55-acre upper reservoir sits 800 feet above the East Fork of the Black River.
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Another view of the 1.5 billion gallon upper reservoir at Taum Sauk Plant.
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After six years of feasibility studies and planning, UE chose 1,590-foot-high Proffit Mountain in Reynolds County for the site of the pumped storage plant, completed in 1963.
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A view of the plant from the substation, where voltage is increased to send power over the transmission system.
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The housing for Taum Sauk's two turbines (in blue) protects the equipment that spins to create electricity.
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The lower dam forms the lower reservoir, a popular spot for fishing.
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A closer view of the lower dam at Taum Sauk Plant.
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Crews work to install 1.3 million square feet of polyethylene liner inside the upper reservoir.
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The lining project was completed the fall of 2004 in only nine weeks, thanks, in part, to preparation work completed during an outage two years earlier.
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