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Big Creek Powerhouse #8
- Description
- Big Creek Powerhouse #8 - drilling rocks that fell into spillway for blasting.
- Date
- 1921
- Call number
- photCL SCE 02 - 07519
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108

Visual Materials
Big Creek Powerhouse #8 - Pile of mud and rocks washed into tailrace after penstock ruptured on 8/20
photCL SCE 02 - 07303

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Big Creek Powerhouse #8 - Blasting granite cliffs at head of project 3 road, lower San Joaquin Canyon.
photCL SCE 02 - 07550

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Big Creek - Powerhouse #8 (part 1) [Powerhouse 8, Dam 6, Camp 34, Camp 38, overview PH8 & penstock, milling PH8 draft tube, operator's cottage, forebay, sluicing tailrace, generator floor, switchboard, rocks washed into tailrace after penstock burst, Unit #2 at Pelton Water Wheel Co., generator & governor at PH8, penstock vent, transformers & bus, station power sets, switchboard, broken penstock, drilling tunnel #8, repaired penstock, steel forebay, Camp 32 Cookhouse, Johnson Valve, Camp 33.]
photCL SCE 13 - vol 034

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Powerhouse #8 - Boulders in spillway being drilled for blasting
photCL SCE 02 - 06838

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Powerhouse #8 - Boulders in spillway being drilled for blasting
photCL SCE 02 - 06839

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Big Creek Powerhouse #8 - Looking down into foundation of 2nd Unit Powerhouse #8. Jackhammer men completing excavation for Anchor #1.
photCL SCE 02 - 15923