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How It's Made - Electricity - Pulverizer LbNA #57014 (ARCHIVED)

Owner:Family Grave Seekers
Plant date:Feb 17, 2011
Location: Mason County Industrial Park
City:Point Pleasant
County:Mason
State:West Virginia
Boxes:1
Found by: Wally R
Last found:Oct 28, 2013
Status:FFmFa
Last edited:Feb 17, 2011
I'm changing the status of this box to missing because I did not find it when I went to check on it.

How It’s Made – Electricity #1 - Pulverizer

Have you ever wondered where your electricity comes from? Or how it is made? Traveling north on Rt. 62 from Point Pleasant, W. Va. to Mount Alto, W. Va. you will see four coal-fired power plants, two on the Ohio side of the Ohio River and two on the West Virginia side. You will also pass a hydroelectric plant as well.

A simplified coal plant system starts by grinding coal to a very fine powder with a pulverizer much like a pharmacist grinds medicines using a mortar and pestle.

This Pulverizer Letterbox commemorates Kyger Creek Plant, a 1,000 megawatt power plant that was completed in 1955 to supply power to the uranium enrichment plant in Piketon, Ohio. It is owned by Ohio Valley Electric Corporation, formed by a group of investor-owned utility sponsors that received the excess power available beyond what the enrichment plant needed. Since the enrichment plant no longer needs the power, the sponsoring companies get the full capacity now.

Clues: To find the How It’s Made – Electricity - Pulverizer letterbox, travel north in Mason County on Rt. 62 through Point Pleasant. Once you pass the Sand Hill Road intersection, the mile markers will be your guides with the first one being 22. You will see Kyger Creek Plant in the distance on your left when you pass Airport Road. It has two tall smoke stacks but only one is used. Continue on Rt. 62 and after mile marker 25, enter the Mason County Industrial Park on your left. Continue until the guardrail on your right ends. Seek a camo covered zip-lock bag in the guardrail.

Please be discreet. Reseal and rehide well. While you are in the area, you might want to find the "TNT" letterbox. Let me know how things are and of your visit to the area by using the contact the placer feature. Happy Letterboxing!