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Borel Powerhouse and water diversions; San Antonio Canyon, Kern River, and Southern California

Description: Sierra penstock break, new pipeline, intake house, diversion - powerhouse; Borel Powerhouse and water diversions, original Pelton-Doble turbines, and change over to horizontal Pelton-Francis turbines; various substations; Meter testing; Mentone hydroelectric project; Pedley hydroelectric project; Casing Head Gasoline plant; Old Redondo Steam Plant construction and facilities; Stone Castle plant after fire; Ventura Power Co. steam plants, gas plant and substations; Pasadena; Wash at Sunnyslope substation; Water plant at San Bernardino
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1909 - 1916
Call number: photCL SCE
Creator: Southern California Edison Company(Opens in new tab)

Borel Powerhouse and water diversions; Mentone hydro project; Pedley Hydro project; Casing Head Gasoline plant; Old Redondo Steam Plant construction and facilities; Stone Castle after fire; Ventura Power Co. steam plants, gas plant and substations

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Sierra penstock break, new pipeline, intake house, diversion - powerhouse; Borel Powerhouse and water diversions, original Pelton-Doble turbines, and change over to horizontal Pelton-Francis turbines; various substations; Meter testing; Mentone hydro project; Pedley Hydro project; Casing Head Gasoline plant; Old Redondo Steam Plant construction and facilities; Stone Castle after fire; Ventura Power Co. steam plants, gas plant and substations.

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Big Creek and Kern River

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Coyote Lake at head of Big Creek; Big Creek [cascade above Powerhouse1 site], Stevenson Creek Falls, Thousand Island Lake; Borel Powerhouse and cottages; Borel interior with the original 5 Pelton Waterwheel unit], Kern Substation, Indian Substation, Newhall Substation; Azusa hydroelectric Plant; Sierra hydroelectric Plant; Mentone hydroelectric Plant; Redondo Steam Plant.

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Big Creek construction, Kern River, Redondo Steam Station, etc

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Azusa Line; Big Creek construction - Dam 2, towers, Powerhouse 2, Richgrove Patrol Sta.; Borel change to Pelton-Francis horizontal turbines, break in canal, Bodfish Flume, repairs at Schoolhouse Cut, Profanity Flume; San Bernardino "C" Street Substation, Long Beach Steam Plant, Santa Ana River 2; Fillmore Substation; PLandP trucks and wagons; Huntington Beach Substation; East Kern Line; Kern Canal, settling basin, Borel Powerhouse; Mentone - siphon, flume break, fish screen, intake; L.A. City Power Dev. Plant 1; Pedley Powerhouse - break in canal; Redondo Steam Plant; Sierra Powerhouse; Stone Castle, Vernon Substation, Santa Paula Substation, Monolith Substation, and Eagle Rock Substation.

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Kern River No. 1

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Kern River No. 1, including site for Democrat Dam; Dam construction and drainage tower; intake; dam spilling; Construction at Camp 4; Kern River Canyon, hospital, tunnel workers, tunnel portal, concrete mixing plant, concrete flume, tunnel automobiles; Camp 1, penstock construction, branch pipes, Powerhouse construction, machinery transport to site, assembly of units in powerhouse, placing "Y" piece, main water valve needle, exciter needle, impulse wheel and buckets, transformers, tailrace construction, original spillway, towers and erect insulators, transmission line; Tejon, Castaic and Fernando Substations, Los Angeles No. 3 Steam Plant.

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Early construction at Big Creek, Tule River and Kern River

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Album compiled by Edison employee containing professional and amateur photographs of Borel interior with Pelton-Francis turbines; Excavation for Big Creek Powerhouse No. 2; Huntington Lake construction for Trestle Dam 1, Dam 2; start of construction at Powerhouse No. 1 and Dam 4, installation of equipment at Powerhouse 1, penstock assembly, completion of Dam 4; construction of Big Creek Powerhouse 2; construction of Powerhouse No. 8, constructing road to Powerhouse 3, and Tule Powerhouse.

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Silver Lake; Kaweah Powerhouse No. 2; Kaweah River; others

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Photographs of Silver Lake, Kaweah Powerhouse No. 2; Kaweah Powerhouse No. 3 and reservoir; Tule Powerhouse and flume; Visalia Steam Plant; Tulare Steam Plant; Substations: Tulare, Venice Hill, Tipton, Terra Bella, Delano, Exeter, Lindsay, Porterville, Success, Sugar, Packwood, Woodville, Earlimart, Strathmore, and Sausalito; Visalia garage and office; and Tulare Office and Storeroom.

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Borel Powerhouse and water diversions; San Antonio Canyon, Kern River, and Southern California

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