ML19326B130
| ML19326B130 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Davis Besse  |
| Issue date: | 01/23/1971 |
| From: | Jackie Cook AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | Price H US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC) |
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| NUDOCS 8003060931 | |
| Download: ML19326B130 (5) | |
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in hehalf of the Sand Peach Association at the Atomic Energy Commission hearings in Ibrt Clinton, Ohio, January 25, 1971:
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I am speaking in behalf of the Sand Beach Association which was organized more than fifty years ago. The Association is Incorporated and Sand Beach became a political sub-division in 1948, with creation of the Sand Beach Conservency Dictrict.
Sand Beach property extends along the shore of Lake Erie for a distance exceeding 7,000 f t. and lies generally north of the northern Power Station boundary.
The eastern-most portion of land, described as lot 330, adjoins the Power Station property, while the northwestern, and most distant portion lies slightly under 4,000 ft. northwest,, from the northwest corner of the power station boundary.
Property in plots one and two of Sand Ecach are ovned by 146 individuals.
There are 27 year-round homes and 78 seasonal homes and cotteges.
The vinter population is currently 72 people while the summer population can rise to over a thousand on busy weekends.
An additional 17, costly seasonal and veekend dwellings, are situated in lot 330 adjoining the Power Station property and account for 70 core summer and occasional weekend residents.
The principal use of Sand Beach is recreational and the beach itself, is one of the remaining few good svWng beaches at this end of the lake.
Outdoor activities range from fishing, boating, swim =ing, sailing and shore activities in the su= er to ice skating, ice boating and snowmobiling in vinter.
It has been a place where our children could grow up and build a tree house or dig a cave, opportunties largely denied to them in the larger cities. today-ind, to learn a little bit about the beautiful world we live in.
I am certain that in this setting, you will recognize the advent of a nuclear reactor at our doorstep,.has been unsettling.
We had recognized the growing need for additional sources of electrical power and having been assured by Edison Company representatives that adequate cooling towers would be built and no adverse effects or hazards vould result from the proposed plant or ita operation, we had assumed a posture of reluctant submission.
Two weeks ago we received a report from the previous hearing held in this audi-torium, and received a copy of Appendix A, Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station Environ:nental Report dated August 3,1970 - I hope all of you vill have an opportunity to reed this document - especially those of you who have technical or scientiric bachgrounds.
I. The f'irst question concerns the Environmental Report -
a) To what degree are predictions for behavior of the heated water discharge plume, with respect to currents, dilution and diffusivity, based on the report entitled,
" Currents and Dilution" on page C-15?
Prior to inclusion of a cooling tower in the Power Station 8o03oeo93/
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lake vas hypot,hetical and totally unrealistic.
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Many observations from the air, of streens of various si::es entering lake Erie shaw clearly how an entire discharge plume can be held against a shore under high wind and wave ccnditions, The-sentence on pr,ge C-24, for example, refers to "that pcssibly.nlikely case vnerein a northwest wind was to hold the plant plume tightly against the shore frca Lecust hint to well beyond the Camp Perry water intake."
appears very likely to us unter nmal spring to fall vestber ecnditions which apprencly, vere not taken into account in the study.
We question the validity of the conclusions drawn from the brief six month meteorological study as being unrealistic and incomplete, b) The repor: also igxres late winter and early apring gales e.ich ccre frcm the sector betwe$n Nerth, Ik rth-west and Es.st, Northeast, and drive seas completely over the beach dib and across Division Street.
At locations where the marsh is within 50 or so feet from Division Street the see.s freqcently wash directly from the lake into the marsh.
This is not an infrequent event and every yesr many homes are severely damaged by these storms, high water mark evidence can be foun>i on Power Station preperty also, where seas wash into the marsh.
We can assure you that effluent discharged into the lake in front of the 1%rer Station site during one of these gales will end up saturating nearly every square foot of Sand beach proper.y from the normal waters edge across Diviulon Street, for a vidih of 130 feet or more.
This is the actual sand and scil we live on - it is our front yards an.1 back yards, and ic contains our wells.
Residue from the discharged effluent will surround us and collect in the marshes behind.
If it is harmful, we will be hamed. _ We ask for an irrrestiga'; ion and evaluation of the effect thia cendl, ion would have on the health and well being of the inhatitunts of Sand Beach and surrounding areas.
II. We can attest to many instances of high offshore winds causing a five to
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six foot vs.ter level drep which pe:mitted us to walk on essentially dry land several hurdrei yrzds out into the lake from the normal shoreline.
At times of Jesser vinds, a series of sand bars are exposed creating shallow channels cf wat+r rartning roughly psrsIlel to the shoreline.
Since the report makes no mention of conditions appro:.ching these, we would like to know the follo.r'.ng:
a) What is the nattre and configuraW.n of the discharge outlet and where is 15 to be located and vsat is its vrd1Lms %2e#pr rM femreSeralmd
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b) Vould it be psse'.'-le uMer M6 offehyre wind condbiors previucsly drecri'.ei for rdioscii~re dischsge :-ffluent to concer6 rue 1.s -ne shar.ec eisc:nels between ts_e sand bars a-d coatsrinate ve11s located Gong the beach?
c)' At noms 1 or high water le rela vill 9.e t -bulence from the discr.args f~..tring in.':0 e. rough see. cresi;e a hazari for amsil creth smt;6ing to crue une juncuur :7 d) Txe nerhern :stver &ntion loundc7 ra.ns thrcugh a 1s789 open wster area of =s 2h lard v.-leh is cant'.pwus with Sand Beach prepe?<ty.
Cir".s nesns at prese.nt, t'.e aos fest ex-ltision one is n.r. enclczed by a barcier of any kind.
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- 1) Is t' ara a 1:lse to constr;tei a Elhe at this boundary?
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III. If the propcsed plard is r:o'g:letaA and put into oper*6 ion at the int ended level of power outp'ti ec 11 a reqcired exclusion rene igesed by the A.E.C. or other body rettft in:
a) Vacabing or er;repriation of propd:y?
t) Pectric>iens tc preeent e,etivb'.es?
c) Exy.uure to heal-Y.: La sris?
Mr. J. K. Davis of Telsio LLon has assured us that no ruiditional land is required for.t:.s power station proper beyor;d t~nas already sequired.
IV. Altuost every virr%r we ara snoVer md by very hewy (6 to 6 ft. )
drifts fer peloda rsad.rs; from a fw ho= n to sers.1 davs.
In the event of an acciient is his plant regiring evacue.ticn of Sand Beach, how vt:uld roa pw.p3ee ;:de c.mid le accomplished unie hca ecnditions and whose resynsililit,y is th's?
V. Have the safe;;te/-Is des.*gned for the I's:ris-Bessa plant been used e.nd proven in actual eperaticn of a pner p' ant? We trhrstand the failure of a supposed'2:f pro /en scegcari io dispose Lec; va.s responsible for an accident at the Enrico Per21 Ilant.
VI. Has the generel pleait, el.te and sic cund'ng area teen nenitored for normal radioactivity ani teckgrourd. cNnt? Is LL'.s 'rrontat*on available?
VII. At certeln t'.nas er w c I.6ks E-le '.s ekh.d wit'. blue-green elgae 11oom.
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