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Work to decommission the Spencer Hydroelectric Facility and Dam will begin in January 2026. The decommissioning will involve removing the remaining structure and material from the site and restoring the property to its natural state, including grading the land and seeding the site. Drivers should be aware of increased heavy vehicle traffic in the area, while the decommissioning work is being completed. Nebraska Public Power District has contracted with Brandenburg Industrial Services Company to complete the decommissioning work, which is anticipated to be finished by year-end 2026. The Spencer Hydroelectric and Dam facility was damaged beyond repair in the 2019 Bomb Cyclone. The dam collapsed as a result of the ice and backed water which over took the dam taking out flood gates, the back wall of the Hydroelectric facility as well as the earthen part of the dam on the early morning of March 14, 2019. The flood took the life of one man and millions of dollars in damage.
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| 1. | My dad worked for NPPD at the substation in O'Neill and now and then he was called to run the Spencer Hydro (probably due to vacations etc.) and lucky me...sometimes I got to go with him. He took me on tours of the site and then I got to go fish from the river bank or the old bridge. This was all late '50's, early '60's. I loved going up there. Now that the Hydro is history. Just another passage in the night! | |
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