Quincy Area Hydropower Project
MISSISSIPPI
RIVER
LOCK
AND
DAM
NOS.
20, 21
AND
22
FERC Project Nos. 12723, 12724 and 12725
PROJECT
DESCRIPTION
The Quincy Area Hydropower project looks at the
development of Hydropower facilities at three
Mississippi Lock and Dams: Lock and Dam #20 (Canton,
Missouri); Lock and Dam #21 (Quincy, Illinois); and Lock
and Dam #22 (Saverton, Missouri). The generating
facilities would utilize the Mississippi River flows and
head created by the navigation locks and dams that are
owned and operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE).
Lock and Dam 22
Saverton, Missouri
In 1983, the USACE Rock Island District prepared a
Reconnaissance Report for Hydropower in the Dams
along the Mississippi River from Saverton, Missouri’s
Lock and Dam #22 up to Lock and Dam #12 near the
Wisconsin border. The study determined that Lock and
Dams 13, 15, 16, 18, 20, 21 and 22 have favorable
capabilities to produce Hydropower and would contribute
to the National Economic Development Objective (in
effect, dams at these locations would meet the national
criteria for a positive cost/benefit). Hydropower
developed at these sites would conserve nonrenewable
energy resources by utilization of a renewable energy
resource. The Corps completed a preliminary evaluation
of biological impacts and no significant adverse impacts
were identified.
In 2006, the City of Quincy made application to and was
granted by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
preliminary permits for hydropower projects at
Mississippi Lock and Dam Nos. 20, 21 and 22. Preliminary
permit gives the City of Quincy priority of application
for a license for the project under Part I of the
Federal Power Act while obtaining the data and
performing the acts required to determine the
feasibility of the project and to support an application
for a license.
A pre-feasibility study has been completed to make an
assessment of the technical and economic viability of
constructing hydroelectric generating facilities at
Mississippi Lock and Dam Nos. 20, 21 and 22. The study,
completed by Mead & Hunt, addressed the feasibility of
developing generating capability under five development
alternatives.
Next steps for this project include the development of
the preliminary design report and preparation of a
license application for submittal to the FERC.
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