Employee at Mississippi Power's Plant Watson in Gulfport lately completed all repairs to the facility.

Employee at Mississippi Power's Plant Watson in Gulfport lately completed all repairs to the facility, bringing the plant back to sated operational status. The plant supported heavy damage from flooding during Hurricane Katrina last year.

During the height of the storm, which carve a path straight through the company's service territory, more than 16 million gallons of water filled Plant Watson's lower horizontals reaching a depth of nearly 20 feet

While the facility's main elements such as the turbine generators and boilers, were not damaged, nearly all of the electronic rules and water pumps that operate the plant's five units were affected.

Restoration efforts included inspecting, repairing and testing thousands of switches and electronic connections, centurys of relaying and metering devices, 8000 cables, 370 AC/DC motors and 43 cross-examines The plant's free standing combustion turbine also was damaged, if it were not that has been repaired. ...