{"id":156,"date":"2011-02-02T15:18:11","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T20:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.charlesriverswimmingclub.org\/?p=156"},"modified":"2011-02-02T15:18:11","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T20:18:11","slug":"kendall-power-plant-to-reduce-draw-on-charles-222011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.charlesriverswimmingclub.org\/?p=156","title":{"rendered":"Kendall power plant to reduce draw on Charles (2\/2\/2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In some welcome news GenOn announced today that their Kendall Cogeneration plant, located just over the Longfellow Bridge, will be reducing its water\u00a0 intake from the Charles River by a whopping 95% thanks to an innovative and environmentally beneficial steam exchange.\u00a0 Currently the plant uses water from the Charles to cool its turbines.\u00a0 The water is returned to the river at over 100F degrees.\u00a0 Quoting from the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The agreement, negotiated with the Environmental Protection Agency New  England office and state regulators, calls for the GenOn Kendall  Cogeneration Station to slice by 95 percent the 70 million gallons of  heated water that can be pumped into the river every day.  Environmentalists say the hot water kills fish and contributes to algal  blooms.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is going to have a meaningful impact on the Charles&#8217; health.\u00a0 Cyanobacteria thrives in warm water and the Charles, as we here at the CRSC know all too well, is prone to blooms.\u00a0 Read the full article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/articles\/2011\/02\/02\/power_plant_plan_to_cut_discharge_send_heat_to_boston\/?page=1\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In some welcome news GenOn announced today that their Kendall Cogeneration plant, located just over the Longfellow Bridge, will be reducing its water\u00a0 intake from the Charles River by a whopping 95% thanks to an innovative and environmentally beneficial steam exchange.\u00a0 Currently the plant uses water from the Charles to cool its turbines.\u00a0 The water is returned to the river at over 100F degrees.\u00a0 Quoting from the article: The agreement, negotiated with the Environmental Protection Agency New England office and state regulators, calls for the GenOn Kendall Cogeneration Station to slice by 95 percent the 70 million gallons of heated water that can be pumped into the river every day. Environmentalists say the hot water kills fish and contributes to algal blooms. This is going to have a meaningful impact on the Charles&#8217; health.\u00a0 Cyanobacteria thrives in warm water and the Charles, as we here at the CRSC know all too well, is prone to blooms.\u00a0 Read the full article here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesriverswimmingclub.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesriverswimmingclub.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesriverswimmingclub.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesriverswimmingclub.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesriverswimmingclub.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesriverswimmingclub.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesriverswimmingclub.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesriverswimmingclub.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesriverswimmingclub.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesriverswimmingclub.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}