22 Horns In 3 Hours Of Fishing ?!?!

[Brian K. Shaffer]

I wasn't the only one freaked out by the number of horn blows at the dam today. 22 horns blew in the 3 hours while I was fishing ... and the water level never changed from the 1 unit or so they were running.

Was anyone else up there Wednesday ? It was very distracting to say the least. I fished from just after 12 noon to just after 3:30pm or so.

Does anyone know why there was such an usual number of horn blows ? Were they working on them ?

Funny that most of the time, it was only the horn on top of the dam that sounded... not both it and the stack unit above the boat ramp.

Phil or anyone - any answers ?

[Phil Lilley]

You have the magic number, Brian...

[laker67]

22 horns? What the heck is going on? Er, I mean, yeah I heard them Brian. Saw them guys parachuting into the parking lot as well. maybe you should just stay home today and take a rest there budddy.

[Brian K. Shaffer]

Well I decided to call... the explanation was they were doing testing on the units individually to make sure the horn would sound on all levels of generation.... but without releasing any additional water thru the turbines.

So my next question was if they were done testing... he said no... and that it will continue today with the same load being the 25mw as scheduled unless blah..blah.. runaround canned information they always say to cover their butts.

Be prepared that the horn will be sounding many times today as well. But just 1 unit is being called for.

Still - it is irritating as all get out for the horn to blow every 12 minutes or so....