Situated 120 miles southwest of St. Louis in the middle of the ancient Saint Francois Mountains is a unique engineering structure known as the “Taum Sauk Hydroelectric Power Station.”
It is owned and operated by Ameren Missouri Corporation. It is unique for a number of reasons and we will try to cover some of them in this brief column.
No, I am not an engineer so my attempt at explaining the scientific aspects of this project in a few paragraphs may be a tad too loosey-goosey for the engineers in the crowd, but here goes.
In 1963, Union Electric Company, the corporate predecessor to Ameren Missouri, decided to build a hydroelectric plant in the Missouri Ozarks.
