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TOLEDO BEND ALERT
Toledo Bend Citizens Advisory Committee
“Friends of Toledo Bend”
www.toledo-bend.com /tbcac “Educate & Activate” E-mail: tbcac@hotmail.com
**TBCAC SOCIAL November 14th, 2008__ MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS NOW ! ! !**
You are invited to our TBCAC MEETING and SUPPER, at the DAV on Friday November 14th, 2008 from 7PM to 9PM, located on Hwy. 191 north of Hwy 6 (next to the old Lions Club.)
We will furnish the Entree’…Turkey/Ham & Cornbread dressing/Rice dressing. Coffee, tea and water will be the refreshments. We are asking you to bring your favorite salad or dessert.
A program will be presented with a guest speaker: Charles Soileau, Esq. speaking on the Haynesville Shale. We will then have open discussions on our activities, and general “COMMENTS”. Come join the fellowship and share your concerns about issues concerning the Toledo Bend Area. The Toledo Bend Lake Assn, & The South Toledo Bend Civic Assn. are invited to attend this meeting and participate in the discussions that follow.
Contact: Mary Gates @ 318- 645-6452 Ned Goodeaux @ 318-256-0501
PRESS RELEASE---Toledo Bend Project Initiates FERC License Renewal
The Toledo Bend Project Joint Operation (Project) at Toledo Bend Reservoir, which is jointly operated by the Sabine River Authority of Texas (SRA-TX) and the Sabine River Authority, of Louisiana (SRA-LA), has initiated the process with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to renew the Project’s hydroelectric generation license which expires in September of 2013. The relicensing process selected by SRA-TX and SRA-LA (the Authorities) is the Integrated Licensing Process (ILP) as defined under the rules and regulations of the FERC at 18 CFR Part 5. In accordance with these regulations, the Preliminary Application Document (PAD) along with the Notice of Intent (NOI) was efiled with FERC on September 22, 2008. With submittal of the NOI and the PAD, the ILP officially begins.
The PAD provides FERC and interested parties with substantial existing information relevant to the Project; including Project background, relicensing process and schedule, operations, engineering, environmental and natural resources, recreation, cultural resources, and socioeconomics. This information enables FERC, the Authorities, and interested parties to identify issues and information needs; develop focused study requests and plans; and form the foundation for the license application, which will be developed later in the ILP.
The Toledo Bend Project (Project), which was originally licensed by FERC’s predecessor agency, the Federal Power Commission, in 1963, was initially conceived, licensed, and developed primarily as a water supply reservoir, with secondary uses including hydroelectric power generation and recreation. The existing facilities at Toledo Bend Project include a dam and powerhouse, spillway, tailrace and canal, transformer and switchyard, turbines, penstocks, and transmission lines.
The reservoir and hydroelectric facilities were completed and began operation in 1969. As a critical part of the relicensing the hydroelectric facility at the Toledo Bend Project, representatives of federal and state agencies, local governments, non-governmental organizations, and members of the public are encouraged to participate in the ILP. To begin, stakeholders may review the PAD and NOI documents either through the FERC website located at www.ferc.gov or through the Project website http://www.tbpjo.org/PublicRelicensing
Hard copies of the document and reference materials are also available at the office of SRA-TX
located at 12777 Hwy 87 North in Orange, Texas during regular office hours. The next stage of the relicensing process involves FERC scoping meetings and a tour of the Project which will occur in mid December of this year. To participate in the Toledo Bend Project ILP or to find out more information, please contact Melvin Swoboda, Project Licensing
Manager at 409-746-2192 or by email at mswoboda@sratx.org (Courtesy Jim Pratt..Ex. Dir. SRA-LA)
Farmer’s Almanac Predicts a Harsh Winter (09/08)
Here are a few natural signs of a harsh winter that readers and web visitors have been sharing with us: Spoon-shaped persimmon seeds spotted!.........Several web visitors have reported that inside their persimmon seeds, they can clearly see the shape of a spoon, which is believed to forewarn of a harsh winter with heavy wet snow. (A fork shape denotes a mild winter with light powdery snow, and a knife shape indicates an icy winter with cutting winds.) Other observations that support our cold winter forecast include:
* Large spider webs everywhere * Thick hickory nutshells * Thick and tight corn shucks
* Squirrels suddenly storing nuts instead of eating them * Thick bark on trees * Pigs collecting sticks
* Trees already turning colors * Earlier than normal migration of starlings and geese
* Acorns falling profusely off trees * Bears searching for foods in backyards (earlier than usual)
Lake Level as of October 31, 2008, 167.59 ft. m.s.l.
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