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News Release
Visitor Center to close on Oct. 10 for emergency exercise
Chelan County PUD
News Release
10/5/2007
Rocky Reach Visitor Center will close for one day on Wednesday, Oct. 10, to accommodate a community emergency exercise at the dam. The Visitor Center will reopen at 9 a.m. on Thursday., Oct. 11.
Chelan County PUD and Chelan County Emergency Management will test themselves along with more than 20 other agencies in a training exercise the morning of Oct. 10 that will focus on a simulated hazardous oil spill at Rocky Reach Dam.
People driving past the dam between 9 a.m. and noon may see boats on the water deploying spill containment booms. There may also be radio traffic on scanners related to the exercise.
Rocky Reach Visitor Center is located seven miles north of Wenatchee on Highway 97A. Click here for more Visitor Center information.
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Kimberlee Craig
Public Information Officer
661.4320
679.6858, cell
Kimberlee.craig@chelanpud.org