File:Interior of Drum Powerhouse showing generators, exciters, tranformers, switchboard etc, 1914.jpg

Identifier: pacificgaselectr61915paci (find matches)
Title: Pacific Gas and Electric magazine
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Subjects: Pacific Gas and Electric Company Electric utilities Public utilities
Publisher: (San Francisco, Calif.) : Pacific Gas and Electric Co.
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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the fore-bay at the end is nowa handsome sheet ofwater of about 400acre-feet capacity.The huge pipe thatkads therefrom overIhe hill and down toIhe 137o-foot steep tothe power-house iswell in place, and inthe gorge below thewhir of the genera-tors is unceasing asthey grind out theelectric juice thatstarts from there up-on its 110-mile jour-ney to the shores ofSan l-rancisco Bay,;iver the wires thatare strttched betweensteel towers that takea bee-line over thehill on the otlier sideof Bear Hiver. The Big Job hasmade good all alongthe line from Spauld-ing to Cordelia, fromthe peaks of the Si-erra Nevada to thebay of San Francisco.Tliere is not on recorda hitch in its opera-tion. Reservoir, dam,tunnel, canal, fore-l)a\, i)enstock, power-house, transmissionline, each has playedits i)arl to the full ex-pected of it. I or those whowould like to knowsomething about thedales of jjrogress, Iwill mention that therecords show that onOctober M last. LakeSpaulding dam hav- Pacific Service Magazine
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View of the interior of Drum powerhouse showing generators, exciters, tranformers, switchboard etc. reached the point where it was foundadvisable to make use of it, the sluice-way under tlie dam was closed and thewaters escape shut off thereby. On November 21st the gates of old LakeSpaulding were opened and the freedwaters backed up against the dam to aheight of 10(i feet, sufficient to send waterthrough the tunnel in the ruck ;il thesouth side leading to Drum v:\u;\\ and tocover thai hmnci to a (iei)th c.f :ili feci. ilu lirsl waliT was sent llirough liictunnel the following day, November 21!d,and poured into the canal and on In llirforcbax. II was deemed advisable to gosidw at lirsl, for obvious reasons, and soa very small (;uanlily, some MW minersinches, was all llial was allowed to pourthrough llic (i-lncli by-pass in the main71i iriili biitlcrlly valve. Hul llic following day, November 2.U\,the big valve was opened and there waslur-ned iiilo Spaulding limnel Jddd minersinches of walci-. On \o\ciiilicr i.ilh. llic forebay was filled and everything

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