What will the well sites look like after drilling is complete?
Located on the plant site, this is a production well used to pump geothermal fluid to the power plant. A finished drilling site will have a canister similar to this one. Following the completion of drilling activities, all drilling and construction equipment is removed. Only a small, locked steel canister approximately three feet in diameter and up to six feet high remains on an observation hole site. The residual geothermal well monitoring facilities consist of a small fenced area and geothermal well-head valves which are generally no higher than 10 feet. These are not lighted, are painted to blend in with the landscape and are screened by vegetation to ensure they will not be readily visible from Highway 395, State Route 203, or the town of Mammoth Lakes.
