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By Editor | March 10, 2021
By MARK EVANS
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As winter melts into spring, road work is looming ahead for Ste. Genevieve Country road crews.
Road and bridge foreman Scott Schmieder shared a list of roads that need repair with the county commissioners during their meeting last Thursday.
He identified the following roads: French Village, Saline Creek, Dry Fork, Blum, Lawrenceton Cutoff, Straughn Road, Hager, Donze, Minnith, St. Mary Cemetery, Hart-Pinkston, and Burk’s Hill.
Many of them only have one or two spots. Blum Road has as many as 10 spots, Schmieder said, while French Village Road has four.
Schmieder estimated that it might take about a month to take care of all the fixes.
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ST. LOUIS, MO The monumental power failure in Texas caused by unseasonable cold showed how extreme weather can push an electric grid to the brink.
The average U.S. power customer loses electricity for 1.5 to 2 hours annually even before extreme weather events are taken into account, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. As the Texas experience showed, hurricanes, snowstorms, heat waves and other extreme weather events can make such outages dramatically worse.
Customers in Missouri state experienced 4.25 hours without power in 2019 0.45 fewer hours than the national average of 4.7 hours in 2019, which is the most recent information available, according to the EIA.
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By Editor | February 16, 2021
By MARK EVANS
mevans@stegenherald.com
Steve Elsea, manager of member services for Citizens Electric Corporation (CEC), updated Ste. Genevieve County commissioners on the planned 69,000-volt transmission line that would run 19 miles, through the northern and western part of the county at last Thursday’s commission meeting.
The line and supporting towers will be put up by Wabash Valley Power Alliance, the wholesale electricity provider that supplies CEC.
The proposed project had ignited some opposition last year, when Wabash Valley hired ORC Associates from St. Charles to try to get landowners along the projected path of the project to sign easements. The firm was accused of using “strong-arm” tactics and making implied threats to get paperwork signed.