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View of Lake Marion (upper left) and Lake Moultrie (bottom right) Pinopolis Dam is a dam in Berkeley County, South Carolina.. The earthen and concrete dam was completed in 1941 by Santee Cooper, the state-owned electric and water utility also known as South Carolina Public Service Authority. [1]
Santee Cooper, also known officially from the 1930s as the South Carolina Public Service Authority, is South Carolina's state-owned electric and water utility that came into being during the New Deal as both a rural electrification and public works project that created two lakes and cleared large tracts of land while building hydro-electric dams and power plants. [1]
Construction of the Santee Cooper Regional Water System can provide millions of gallons of potable water per day to the surrounding five counties centered about Santee. The system was coordinated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and funded by the Army Corps of Engineers , USEPA , and the South Carolina Department of Commerce.
Santee Cooper agreed in December to offer the 40-year gratis lease to the humane society for about 10 acres near Myrtle Beach adjacent to one its turbine stations near the Intracoastal Waterway.
It is owned by Santee Cooper, formally known as the South Carolina Public Service Authority. [2] The nameplate capacity of each unit is 590.9 MW, 556.2 MW, 591 MW, and 652 MW respectively. [ 1 ] In 2016, Cross switched from using higher quality bituminous coal , to refined coal , which is a lower quality coal that is refined to release less ...
A large transmission tower collapsed into the Congaree River. This nonprofit says it belongs to this utility.
Under H. 5118, Santee Cooper and Dominion Energy have the same fiscal protections — if the project fails — as did Santee Cooper and SCE&G behind the VC Summer fiasco, according to Moore.
In 1939, the Santee Cooper Project dammed the Santee River, flooding nearly 175,000 acres (710 km 2) and creating Lake Moultrie with the Pinopolis Dam in 1946. Because of its high elevation, Pinopolis was spared from the flooding, and now exists as a peninsula on the lake.