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The PUD dedicated the new plant in June 1999, the month it began commercial generation.
Here PUD Board President Randy Knowles talks about his vision for the plant to help Klickitat County someday meet all its energy needs with green power. PUD Commissioners Dan Gunkel and Harold Hill, plus PUD Power Manager Tom Svendsen, look on. |
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At the plant's dedication PUD commissioners and staff cut the ribbon to officially dedicate the facility.
Left to right, Project Engineer Darby Hanson, PUD Commission President Randy Knowles, General Manager Brian Skeahan, Commissioners Harold Hill and Dan Gunkel, and Power Manager Tom Svendsen. |
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Father and son, Keith Anderson of White Salmon and Francis Anderson of Husum, confer at the landfill plant's first open house in June 1999.
About 200 enthusiastic customers came to the plant's first open house. More open houses will be scheduled -- we'd like all our customers to see firsthand their investment in their energy future! |
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Klickitat PUD Commission President Randy Knowles (center) explains how the plant operates to customers at the open house.
In front left to right, Tommy and Chris Thompson of Snowden, PUD Commission President Randy Knowles, Grace and Lee Wiley of Snowden. |
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Melissa Merritt of KOMO-TV News in Seattle interviews PUD Board President Randy Knowles at the Roosevelt Regional Landfill. Reporters from throughout the region have give the plant and its environmental benefits a lot of attention -- including a front page article in the Seattle Times. |  |
It's no exaggeration to say the energy plant has put the town of Roosevelt, Klickitat County and the PUD on the regional green energy map! Tom Senior of Portland's Channel 12 news films the plant's dedication. Reporters from Seattle, Spokane, Portland and Tacoma have visited the site. |
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The plant was built in just 7 months and includes 17,000 feet of wire and cable, 189 engineering drawings, 5,000 tons of additional fill rock and 30,000 construction man-hours. |
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In July 2000 we celebrated the one-year anniversary of commercial operation and named the plant the H.W. Hill Landfill Gas Power Plant, in honor of PUD Commissioner Harold Hill. Here General Manager Brian Skeahan presents Harold a copy of the resolution naming the plant in his honor. |