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Show Kiwanian hear report on Werner Power Project 100 percent by the City of Los Angeles. Water for the slurry system will be extracted through underground un-derground water reserves, and will be recovered at" the power sites, he emphasized. Coal fields will be developed initially through strip mining process by Utah International. Coal reserves at Alton are estimated at 450 billion tons with several billion tons of coal is also available on BLM property. "We estimate that there is sufficient coal to keep the project in operation for 100 years," McArthur stated. All systems are "go" for a starting date of 1U7G and first production by l'.tliO from the Allen Werner Power Project, members mem-bers of the Cedar City Kiwanis Club were told last week by Rudger McArthur, director of Public Utilities for the City of St. George. The proposed coal fired electrical generation system that will have the capabilities of production !"()() megawatts of electrical power has moved along quite successfully, according ac-cording to McArthur, "to the point that all phases of the construction program are geared to begin in H)70," he said. The system is unique in that it will produce power at two plant locations from coal mine fields located at Alton, Utah. Coal will be slurred from the coal bod site at Alton to two generating plants, one to be located in Werner Valley just south of Hurricane and southeast of St. George; and the other at Allen in Nevada. Each plant will be designed for capabilities of production 250 megawatts of power for a total capability of 500 megawatts, McArthur stated. The Allen Werner Valley Energy System is jointly being prompted by the City of St. George, the Nevada Electric Company and the city of Los Angeles, Calif. Both the Nevada Electric company and St. George City will have rights to 25 percent of the power produced in the system with Los Angeles taking 50 percent of the generated power. Initially St. George will not consume its full 25 percent but will market excess power to the City of Los Angeles. "However, anything that we sell will be recoverable up to the full 25 percent when needed," McArthur McAr-thur emphasized. The slurry system will be composed of one-half coal and one-half water. It will be transported tran-sported through two separate pipe lines. Impact of the system will be felt heaviest in the Alton area where coal producing fields will be activated, McArthur stated. He indicated that the project would begin with 76 employees in l'.).7ii would increase to 4H8 in 1977, would peak in 1978 with 837 then reduce to 498 in 1979 and level off at 280 in 1980. The project is exM'tted to generate payrolls of up to 24 millions of dollars in 1979 during the peak development period. McArthur indicated that the social and economic impact of the project would be felt heaviest at Alton where 400 employees would be required to operate the coal mining process. The utilities director favored a new town site to accomodate the coastruction phase of the project. He did indicate, in-dicate, however, that the operation of the power plant at Werner Valley in Washington County could be assimulated without any adverse social or economic problems. (me of the major problems of the project of course is financing, he pointed out. In order to meet St. George's committment to the project it will be necessary for the city to sell revenue bonds of 100 million dollars. The bonds, he pointed out, would be guaranteed |