Chris Johnson notes:
Did you know that prior to trying to site the generator in the Mill Ruins Park on Park Board property, Crown Hydro was working on building
it in the basement of the Crown Roller Mill? Did you know that the reasons they are not building it there is because they would not
promise in writing to the owner of the Crown Roller Mill building that there would be no vibration and no damage from such vibration?
Brandt: Maybe so, but those who have done their history homework understand that this building had an operating turbine in it for decades and has yet to collapse. The building dates to 1879, and its power system is described as at least a century old and operated until 1933. Because the historical turbine transmitted power through mechanical means, I'll wager that it produced more vibration than a turbine producing electricity.
Steve Brandt
Kingfield
The owner of the Crown Roller Mill building is no doubt aware that having housed a *mill* at one time (hence the name), it was full of vibration and noise causing machinery, including the water-powered turbine.
What little relevance that historical turbine has to today missed the point. Crown Hydro claims there will be essentially no noise or vibration of consequence. Yet they were unwilling to state that in writing to the owner of the building. Why?
If there is such noise and vibration, and it now seems likely there would be, then there are two key questions:
1. Will the noise and vibration detract from the quality of life that residents in the area desire? If so, that's a big problem.
2. Will the vibration cause potential problems to the various surrounding historic structures? If so, that's a big problem.
That the Crown Roller Mill has stood up for 125 years, as many as 54 of them with an operating water turbine says next to zero about whether it or other buildings will be affected today. All structures change over time; stone cracks and crumbles, metal oxidizes, wood rots, etc.
To insinuate that because a building once housed machinery which produced more vibration than an electricity producing turbine, it and other buildings are up to the task of withstanding that vibration today is simply ludicrous.
Chris Johnson Fulton
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