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Preparing For A Flood


Safety Supervisor, Justin Glazier looks over the construction of the containment area.


The graders came in and leveled a pad,


followed by rock trucks bringing in chat. Con- struction trucks brought in materials. Finally a welding truck. What’s going on in Cimarron’s main pole yard?


Justin Glazier, Safety Director, informed us that the new construction is a secondary spill containment area. It is twenty feet wide by seventy feet long. It is to keep us in compliance with the Enviromental Protection Agency (EPA) concerning the clean water act.


Justin Glazier, Bryan Randle and Chris Kubat start loading transformers into the containment area


The EPA’s Spill Prevention Control and


Countermeasure (SPCC) policy is to make sure that any company that has over 1,250 gallons of oil on its property, has to have a secondary spill containment to prevent oil from leaving a location in the event of a fl ood or disaster. We store all transformers with over 55 gallons of oil inside this new containment area. (Transformers contain mineral oil to dissipate heat.) It is built out of waterproof polymer with a drain valve to release rain water from inside.


Please Winter, Go Away. WFEC Sets Another Peak Usage!


According to the calendar, Winter was offi cially over on March 20, 2014. For many of us, it was a long time in coming. The colder than normal winter has set many records and even gave us some new terminology such as the “Polar Express”.


Electricity usage and natural gas usage has set records this winter. Gary Roulet, Western Farmers Electric Cooperative CEO updated Cimarron Electric and the fellow electric cooperatives with some amazing numbers. WFEC purchased larger than normal megawatt hours from the mar- ket this winter. These purchases were required due to the extremely low hydro delivery caused by drought conditions and lower wind generation, due to icing that limited turbine use at wind farms across the state. During the past four months, WFEC has hit multiple all-time peaks that were sur- passed on several occasions. A peak of 1,632 megawatts (MW) was hit twice in January, and then broken on Feb. 5, with a peak of 1,662 MW, which was then exceeded again on March 2, ending up at 1,676 MW. This new peak is signifi cantly higher than the 1,498 MW in December 2013. During last summer, WFEC’s peak was 1,527 MW. The U.S. Energy Information Administration website reports, “More frigid weather in February led to another large downward revision to the short-term energy outlook’s end-of-March 2014 projec- tion for working natural gas inventories. Projected inventories now end March at 965 billion cubic feet (Bcf), ending the season below 1,000 Bcf for the fi rst time since 2003.” It was a rough, tough winter!

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