Sirens in the middle of nowhere.

[Gil]

Regarding the Minooka siren from above....That area is a boom town for subdivision from Joliet, Minooka and Plainfield. All along Route 6 south of Minooka and Route 52 north of town is a booming suburb. Within the next two years or so it won't be lonely anymore!

Yes, i was amazed how fast it was being built up!!

I read in a newspaper once that Willl County, IL is the fastest
growing county in the US!!


everyone wants to move west, i guess.


That siren in particular though, is quite far from any houses,
maybe a far or two nearby. Its by that mysteros chemical plant,
which the siren is about a mile north of. I wouldnt want to
live near that thing!!

[kmg365]

That whole area is full of petro chemical plants....Equistar is out there, BP and Mobile have refinaries out that way. Also across the river just south of Minooka (about a mile south of Ridge Rd and Route 6) is the Dresden Nuclear Station. I always wondered if any of those sirens are operated by Dresden.

[Gil]

My uncle who lives in Channahon works at the Dresden Nuclear Plant.

Out that way alogn Route 6 which has otns of thunderbolts, and even
a disconnected STH-10, are being replaced with T-135s.

I do not believe Dresden themselves operate the sirens, but Will
and Grundy County do. There is also the Braidwood Nuclear
plant further south which is the same case.


As for the chemical plants, Off I-80, west of I-55, there is a massive
blue and white plant. It has tons of power being fed into that place,
via 2 sets of High-Tension powerlines.

Do you have any idea what that is?? Here is a map:

[Midwest Siren]

Out in rural nebraska they have numerous penetrators in the middle of nowhere as the statewhide system.

[kmg365]

That is a natural gas fired power station. It is called Kendall Energy Plant. There is also another sw of there near Route 52 and Cedar Rd in Manhatten IL. I am not sure who owns it or how it operates...but I know ComEd or Exelon doesn't, per a friend who works ComEd.

And thanks for your info. I often wondered if those power stations had a warning system or if the plants notify Will or Grundy EMA to set them off. I know that at the LaSalle Power Station west of the area there was an emergency this past Febuary 20th. Nothing major happened but a guy I know who is a firefighter for a town near the LaSalle Plant said the sirens were activated to notify the community. Not sure if they were sent off by EMA or who operates them.

[Gil]

I thought it was a power plant too, but the power lines that
go into it keep going on after it. its ard to explain, so i made this:



If it was a power plant, it would have stopped right there, but the 2 lines
keep on going. Based on the same tower structure design, they come
from Dresden.


I did not know that about the LaSalle plant.

I do knwo thereare quite a few sirens that way.

When you get off I-80 to i think the exit to Marseilles, if you look
sotuh, there is a hill really close by with a T-135 on a huge pole,
standing proudly ontop of the pole!

I have pics of it somewhere, i'll dig them up sometime.