Editing Rivesville, West Virginia (section)

===Power plant===
The Rivesville [[Thermal Power Station|Power Plant]] was built by Monongahela Power and Railway Company in 1919 and is currently operated by [[Allegheny Energy]].<ref>Huilan Li, [https://eidr.wvu.edu/files/4972/Li_Huilan_dissertation.pdf Economic Evaluation of Air Pollution Reduction of Phase I Power Plants in West Virginia: An Output Distance Function Approach]{{Dead link|date=November 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, PhD thesis, West Virginia University, 2006. See Appendix D.</ref>  Unit 5, installed in 1944 had a power output of 48 megawatts; Unit 6, installed in 1951, was 94 megawatts.<ref name="Allegheny-Generating-Company-Mar-2001-10-K405">{{cite web|url=http://edgar.secdatabase.com/695/367301500037/filing-main.htm |title=Allegheny Generating Company, Form 10-K405, Filing Date Mar 30, 2001 |publisher=secdatabase.com |access-date =May 14, 2018}}</ref><ref>Allegheny Energy, [http://www.secinfo.com/d3Ym.547.htm Form 8-K SEC filing], October 31, 2000.</ref><ref>Monongahela Power Co., [http://www.secinfo.com/d221h.br.b.htm Form POS AMC SEC filing], April 4, 1994.</ref>  The plant used open loop cooling, drawing up to 69.8 million gallons per day of cooling water from the [[Monongahela River]].<ref>[http://www.geography.siu.edu/geography_info/research/documents/ThermoReport.pdf Water Use Benchmarks for Thermoelectric Power Generation] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100612154843/http://www.geography.siu.edu/geography_info/research/documents/ThermoReport.pdf |date=June 12, 2010 }}, Department of Geography and Environmental Resources, Southern Ill. U., August 15, 2006</ref>  The [[coal]] stockpile at the plant had a capacity of 50,000 tons, and coal was delivered by [[barge]].<ref>U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, [http://www.iwr.usace.army.mil/ndc/ports/pdf/ps/ps60.pdf Port Series No. 60, Pittsburgh, PA, and Ports on the Ohio, Monongahela, and Allegheny Rivers] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090109105716/http://www.iwr.usace.army.mil/ndc/ports/pdf/ps/ps60.pdf |date=January 9, 2009 }}, 2004 Survey</ref>  Earlier, coal was delivered by [[Rail transport|rail]].<ref>Pennsylvania Trolley Museum, [http://www.pa-trolley.org/Roster/MVT3000.htm Monongahela Valley Traction Company Car #3000] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081121220800/http://www.pa-trolley.org/Roster/MVT3000.htm |date=November 21, 2008 }}, October 17, 2005.</ref>  The plant was connected to the [[Grid (electricity)|grid]] by 138Kv transmission lines.<ref>Electric Industry Restructuring Group,[http://www.nrcce.wvu.edu/special/electricity/elecpaper5.htm Electric Industry Restructuring: Opportunities and Risks for West Virginia, Interim Report No. 5: Transmission Enhancement and Expansion] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080908012300/http://www.nrcce.wvu.edu/special/electricity/elecpaper5.htm |date=September 8, 2008 }}, West Virginia University, January 1998. Section 5.2.</ref>  In the mid 1970s, this was the first commercial power plant to use [[fluidized bed combustion]] to fire its boilers.<ref>[http://www.fossil.energy.gov/programs/powersystems/combustion/fluidizedbed_successes.html Fluidized Bed Technology -- An R&D Success Story], U.S. Department of Energy, October 24, 2006.</ref>  {{As of|2007}}, this power plant employed 33 people.<ref>[https://archive.today/20120708204513/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2007_Nov_15/ai_n27448494 Allegheny Energy's Harrison and Rivesville Power Stations Recertified as VPP Star Worksites] Allegheny Energy press release, November 15, 2007.</ref>  New environmental regulations forced the company to shut down the plant in 2012, along with two others elsewhere in the state.<ref>[https://www.firstenergycorp.com/content/fecorp/newsroom/news_releases/firstenergy_citingimpactofenvironmentalregulationswillretirethre.html FirstEnergy, Citing Impact of Environmental Regulations, Will Retire Three Coal-Fired Power Plants in West Virginia] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222130208/https://www.firstenergycorp.com/content/fecorp/newsroom/news_releases/firstenergy_citingimpactofenvironmentalregulationswillretirethre.html |date=February 22, 2014 }}, FirstEnergy press release, February 8, 2012.</ref>