EAPC Architects Engineers consultant Jay Haley, left, attaches wires to one of two wind vanes mounted on our monitoring tower in southwest McIntosh County. A Jamestown Communications technician is shown at right unpacking and preparing the other equipment for mounting. Monitoring began on June 20, 2001.

MCWEC, LLC President Don Kosel and a Jamestown Communications technician use a pulley system to raise one of the three booms that carry our monitoring equipment.

A step at a time! This Jamestown Communications technician braved a stiff breeze and climbed 135 feet up the tower to mount the top boom carrying an anemometer and wind vane.

Anemometers were placed at three elevations, 135 feet, 98 feet and 33 feet, and wind data is gathered at ten minute intervals in a data recorder at the base of the tower. On a weekly basis, the data is transferred via a cell phone call to a computer in Grand Forks, which prints out the data for us to see each month.

Long aluminum booms were mounted on the communications tower located in the southwestern McIntosh County. The piece of equipment at the end of the boom is a wind vane for measuring wind direction, and the other piece is the anemometer, which measures wind speed.