Wednesday, August 5, 2015

USA, California:

BLM to Construct Monitoring Wells near Casa Diablo IV Geothermal Development Project (Sierra Wave)

The Bureau of Land Management Bishop Field Office, in coordination with the Inyo National Forest Mammoth Lakes Ranger District, has approved construction of three groundwater monitoring wells near the town of Mammoth Lakes.

The wells will be used to monitor groundwater conditions to provide increased assurance that geothermal resource development in Upper Basalt Canyon will not adversely affect the town’s groundwater supply.

Monitoring well data will be incorporated into a shallow groundwater monitoring plan required by the BLM as a condition of approval for the Casa Diablo IV Geothermal Development Project.

A GRC Field Trip will visit Casa Diablo Hot Springs and the Ormat Mammoth Pacific Power Plants - including the Casa Diablo facilities - as part of am excursion to the Long Valley, September 18-20, before the GRC Annual Meeting & GEA Geothermal Energy Expo.

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