The author has 37 years of utility experience with 31 years in Hydro. For the last 5 years I have been the Maintenance Manager at the SKQ Hydroelectric Facility (formerly Kerr Dam) in charge of Capital Improvement Projects at the Facility along with Maintenance on the Turbine-Generators and also in charge of the PM program. Before that I was involved with the equipment reliability on 11 hydroelectric facilities for a Montana Utility.