Utility Right-of-Way (hydro plant to sawmill)

Category: Utility Right-of-Way

60' wide Utility Right-of-Way(ROW) running from Homestake Gold Mine's 4 MW hydroelectric plant#1 finished in 1912 to its sawmill. The plant, which is near Spearfish City Park where the two branches of Spearfish Creek join, generated electricity for the Homestake Gold Mine in Lead, SD and for its Spearfish sawmill. Link: http://www.city.spearfish.sd.us/publicworks/hydroplant.htm
The ROW has above-ground electric distribution wires and poles and is also suitable for underground insulated hot water pipes for a district heating and cooling system powered by a waste wood combined heat and power (CHP) plant on the sawmill grounds. CHP is also known as cogeneration.