Dominion Energy
The cofferdam has been built and water is being pumped from the area of the first cofferdam on the Congaree River. The cofferdam was constructed at the Gervais Street Bridge. The SC Department of Health and Environmental Control has provided an update. As of late August, Dominion Energy has:Completed the rock cofferdam for Area 1 […]
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Work on the Area 1 cofferdam on the Congaree River, near the Gervais Street Bridge, is coming along.The first stage of the cofferdam is complete. Dominion Energy is damming the river in order to clean tar from the bottom of the river. In June an Unexploded Ordnance Diving Team from Tetra Tech arrived to clear […]
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The initial footprint of the cofferdam on the Congaree River has been completed. The site is near the Gervais Street Bridge where crews are preparing the area to clean up coal tar, deposited decades ago, from the bottom of the river. According to the Congaree Riverkeeper “the contractor will continue to build up the dam […]
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A natural gas line break in Lexington, Thursday afternoon, between Augusta Road (US 1) and Dooley Road resulted in I-20 being closed and mandatory evacuations. By Friday morning, after 7 p.m., Augusta Road was fully reopened, inbound and outbound lanes. Any business that was asked to evacuate Thursday afternoon could return to work as usual […]
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The effort to build two cofferdams on the Congaree River is taking shape. If you ride across the Gervais Street Bridge, you can see it. Dominion Energy has contracted a company to build the cofferdams so that coal tar from long-closed oil plant can be cleaned from the river bottom. The work site is on […]
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The City of West Columbia is working with Dominion Energy to improve street lighting and save taxpayer dollars. On Monday, Dominion Energy started replacing all publicly owned street lights with LED lights. This change is estimated to save approximately $9,000 per year on West Columbia’s lighting bill. The addition of the new lights is expected […]
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Dominion Energy will open its public parks on the Lexington and Irmo sides of the Lake Murray dam for the 2022 recreation season beginning Wednesday. The beach and recreation area on the Lexington side (near the dam) will remain open through Sept. 5. Parking fees for all vehicles on both sides will be $5, with […]
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Beginning at 8 a.m., Sunday, Dominion Energy installed ropes on the new electricity transmission structures. The structures are at North Lake Drive (SC-6) and Columbia Avenue (US-378.) Dominion is using a helicopter to fly ropes across the road and a series of eight roads were closed. The work was expected to continue through the day. […]
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