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Rancho Seco Recreational Park is a recreational area located in the California Central Valley near the Rancho Seco Nuclear Generating Station in Herald, California. It is open to the public for camping, fishing, hiking and water activities. Boats are restricted to outboard electric motors which improves the lake's use as a swimming hole.
The Rancho Seco Nuclear Generating Station is a decommissioned nuclear power plant built by the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) in Herald, California.
Rancho Arroyo Seco was a 16,523-acre (66.87 km 2) Mexican land grant in the Salinas Valley, in present-day Monterey County, California. It was given in 1840 by Governor Juan B. Alvarado to Joaquín de la Torre. [1] The grant extended along the west bank of the Salinas River at Arroyo Seco Creek, and encompassed present-day Greenfield. [2] [3]
In 1979, Abalone Alliance members held a 38-day sit-in in Californian Governor Jerry Brown's office to protest continued operation of Rancho Seco Nuclear Generating Station, which was a duplicate [clarification needed] of the Three Mile Island facility. [24] In 1989, Sacramento voters voted to shut down the Rancho Seco power plant. [25]
The now-decommissioned 918MW Rancho Seco Nuclear Generating Station was built in Herald; its site is now the location of the 1000MW gas-fired Cosumnes Power Plant and an 11 MW solar installation. The nuclear plant's disused cooling towers remain standing, and are the largest buildings in California's Central Valley. [3]
The decommissioned Rancho Seco Nuclear Generating Station. Created by a vote of Sacramento County residents on 2 July 1923 pursuant to the Municipal Utility District Act, [5] [6] SMUD's ability to provide power to its customer-owners was stymied in the courts for nearly a quarter century by the investor-owned Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) of San Francisco. [7]
The Santa Ana winds, which occur most often in the fall and winter, push dry air from over the inland deserts of California and the Southwest toward the coast, the National Weather Service said ...
For ranchos in other California counties, also see the county's geography category in Category: ... Rancho Llano Seco; Rancho Locoallomi; Rancho Lomas de la Purificacion