ML12019A330

Email from Thomas Farnholtz to Linda Howell, Ryan Alexander, Subject: Fw: Event Status Weekend of July 9, 10

ML12019A330
Person / Time
Site:	Fort Calhoun
Issue date:	07/09/2011
From:	Thomas Farnholtz NRC Region 4
To:	Ryan Alexander, Linda Howell NRC Region 4
References
FOIA/PA-2011-0339
Download: ML12019A330 (2)

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Alexander, Ryan From: Farnholtz, Thomas Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2011 9:01 AM To: Howell, Linda; Alexander, Ryan

Subject:

FW: Event Status - weekend of July 9,10 Good Morning -

Thle daily event status report for Fort Calhoun. The river:level has dropped a tiny bit to 1006' 0!". ElectricaI busses 1B4B and 1 B3B-4B have been re-energized. The:AquaDam is installed all the Way around the plant and they are:topping off today. The plan is to start pumping out the interior tomorrow (Sunday). We will::

monitor.

ThIank you and have a great weekend.

Tom.

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From: BERCK, ALLEN .mailto:aberck(opopd.com]1 Sent: Saturday, July. 09,20*1 8:00 AM, To: Bill Pook; Dan; Eric Plautz; Jeff Theulen; Jon Schwarz; Kirkland, John; Larry Oliver; Laurel Ryan; Paul Johnson; Whitney Shipley; 'Rasmusson, Melanie';: kathy.stodola(,iowaxjov; Farnholtz, Thomas c,: GEBERS, STEVEN W; DEANGELIS, PETER A; MOELLER, CHRISTOPHER J; HANKINS, RHONDA R; BERCK, ALLEN; SILKE, DEENA L; RELLER, MARK H

Subject:

Event Status - weekend of July 9,10 Here is the daily report for Saturday. There are no changes from yesterday's report except for river level.

There will not be a daily report tomorrow (Sunday) unless there are other changes.

Fort Calhoun Flooding Status (changes from yesterday's report are in bold)

1. Reactor Status: Shutdown

2. lReactor is covered with > 23-ft of cooling water

3. jOffsite power and Emergency Diesel Generators are available. Both vital buses are energized at this time.

4. ,Spent Fuel Pooling cooling is in service and protected.

5. Shutdown cooling is in service and protected

6. ,Current river level is 1006' 0" at Fort Calhoun Station.

7. Current Blair gauge level is 31.6 ft., which is a slight* decrease in the last 24 hours2.777778e-4 days <br />0.00667 hours <br />3.968254e-5 weeks <br />9.132e-6 months <br />.

9. The site has implemented procedures to protect: power supplies and vital equipment.. Water is onsite, and floIod barriers are protecting vital equipment.

10. No release of radioactivity has occurred. Information in this record was deleted 1 in accordance with the Feedom of Information 7

FOIA.exe- tions Act,

111. Fort CalhoUn has declared a Notification of' Unusual. Event at 08:00 6/6/11.

121 Backup evacuation route onsite is inundated however the primary route onsite is passable and not expected to be affected.

13. Power was removed from siren 259, 257 and 260.:in' Pottawattamie Co. IA. All of Sub area 14 has been evacuated by Pottawattamie Co. IA. Siren 75, 76 in Desoto National Wildlife Refuge have no power. Currently the refuge is closed due to flooding. Siren 1 east of Fort Calhoun on county road 34 between Fort Calhoun and Boyer Chute Recreational. Area is without power. This area is closed due to flooding. Power was removed to on!e additional siren in Washington County - sirens 69 was removed from service due to flooding .and. may require route alerting for any non-evacuated residents.. Power has been removed from sirens 143 in Harrison Co. IA due to flooding. This area has been evacuated and is not populated. Power was:removed to siren 135, located one mile east of NE/IA border on HWY 30.

14. The Reception and Care Center in Fremont is now official, replacing Bellevue. This has been planned for quite some time, but also provides us with greater protection for the public, as no evacuation routes to that location are affected at this time.

15. At this time no known major evacuation routes are affected without contingency actions planned. Interstate 29 in both directions: from Exit 54A (G Avenue) to Exit 71 (1-680 exit): 1-680 road closed to traffic beca~use of fldoding. 1-680 is closed in both directions: from before Exit 130th Street to Exit 62:11-29-; Old Mormon Bridge.

Road ý--- road closed because of flooding. Highway 30 from Blair to Missouri Valley is open with limited width.

and remains an evacuation: route.

Requested Information from states and counties:

1. When offsite evacuation routes are affected please contact emergency planning.

2. When the Blair Water plant is affected please contact emergency planning.

3.iAuthorized power outages that affect or could affect siren operability, please contact emergency planning.

The river flow rate and level have been relatively constant at Blair NE. The Corp of Engineers is releasing Gavin's Point dam at 160,000 cubic feet per second (cfs).

Emergency Planning Contacts at FCS:

Steve Gebers:

L.Pager:L ~~I IIIIIIZ] I *.. ......

Work Phone: 402-533-7308

? C ,ll Phone: (b)(6) .

Allen, Berck:

. Page l(b)(6)

Cb- I phone: (b)(6)

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