Initial Site-Specific De-Inventory Report for Big Rock Point Report No.: RPT-3014537-002
associated with: (1) a HHT to move one TS125 from the BRP ISFSI to the rail transload facility and (2) the rental of a crane to move the TS125 from the HHT to rail car at the transload site. Hence, the HHT routes are expected to be cheaper than the barge route and in general, the total price to transport by HHT and barge increases as the distance and/or time to transport the TS125 increases, hence the shorter routes are favored over the longer routes. Additional details of the transport to rail costs for the HHT route to Petoskey, MI are addressed in Section 7.0. 5.3.3.4 Route Environment Characteristics Figures 5-4 and 5-5 show the elevation profiles for the HHT routes to Clarion Avenue and Washington Street (both in Petoskey, MI), respectively from BRP. Figure 5-6 shows the elevation profile for the HHT route to Gaylord, MI from BRP. Figures 5-7 through 5-8 show the rail elevation profiles between Option 1 (from both transload sites) and Option 2 (from both transload sites) from Petoskey, MI to GCUS. Figures 5-9 through 5-10 show the rail elevation profiles between Option 1 and Option 2 from Gaylord, MI to GCUS. Finally, Figure 5-11 shows the elevation profile for the rail portion of the barge route from Milwaukee, WI to GCUS. These elevation profiles were produced by START [1] . Only mild differences were identified by the team during the evaluation of this metric, where the barge route was found to be favored over all the HHT routes (primarily due to minor gradients throughout route) and the HHT routes were all mildly favored over the HHT route to Washington Street in Petoskey, MI due to a dip in the road just before reaching the transload site. FIGURE 5-4: ELEVATION PROFILE FOR HHT ROUTE FROM BRP ISFSI TO CLARION AVENUE TRANSLOAD SITE IN PETOSKEY, MI [1]
FIGURE 5-5: ELEVATION PROFILE FOR HHT ROUTE FROM BRP ISFSI TO WASHINGTON STREET TRANSLOAD SITE IN PETOSKEY, MI [1]
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Initial Site-Specific De-Inventory Report for Big Rock Point May 10, 2017
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