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OREM, Utah (AP) — Several people recently gathered near Provo to recognize the Olmsted Hydroelectric Power Plant as it is retired after 111 years of operation.
The Daily Herald reports that officials and history buffs gathered Friday to celebrate the Orem plant, which stands at the mouth of Provo Canyon.
Rocky Mountain Power spokesman David Eskelsen says the plant generated its last kilowatts on Sept. 21. It served customers in Utah, southeastern Idaho and Wyoming. Daryl Devey of the Central Utah Water Conservancy District says the plant also supplied water to Utahns beginning in 1987.
Devey says they decided to close the Olmsted plant when a study showed it would cost more to rehabilitate the facility than to build a new one.
He says the old plant will become a by-appointment museum.
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