Visual Materials

Kern River Project; Kings River

Description: Kings River Powerhouse No. 1 and cottages, headworks, Lucas Creek Flume, Cow Creek flume, Borel Powerhouse with 5 penstocks, Isabella (1907); Kings River No. 1 Water Appropriation Notice, Kings River No. 2 - Camp near Mill Creek, posted notice, material storage, warehouse at Tunnel 9; Kings River No. 3 - South Fork Gorge and Intake site, Crown Valley, Little Brush Creek, construction road, Water Appropriation Notice; Kings River No. 4 - Tehachapi Basin, lumber yards, water appropriation notice at intake site, P.D. Plant and spillway at mouth of Kern Canyon.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1909
Call number: photCL SCE
Creator: Southern California Edison Company(Opens in new tab)

Kern River Project

Visual Materials

Kern River No. 1, Borel Powerhouse, Kern River No. 3 - KR 1, KR 2, & KR 3, Kings River Power Co., Kings River - Kern River PH #1 & cottages, headworks, Lucac Creek Flume, Cow Creek flume, forebay weir to spillway; Borel Powerhouse with 5 penstocks, Isabella (1907); Kings River #1 Water Appropriation Notice, Kings River #2 - Camp near Mill Creek, posted notice, material storage, warehouse at Tunnel 9; Kings River #3 - South Fork Gorge & Intake site, Crown Valley, Little Brush Creek, construction road, Water Appropriation Notice; Kings River #4 - Tehacipi Basin, lumber yards, water appropriation notice at intake site, P.D. Plant and spillway at mouth of Kern Canyon.

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Kings River Project

Visual Materials

Kings River Project - Water appropriation notice on the South fork at the site of Intake #4.

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Kern River No. 1

Visual Materials

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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Borel, Kern River No. 3, Santa Ana River No. 1, Mill Creek, PL&P construction photos from 1903, and Bear Valley Dam (Union Power Co.)

Visual Materials

Photographs of Borel flume and canal work (mostly un-numbered), Borel headworks, Borel Powerhouse, Kern River No. 3 construction, Santa Ana River No. 1 powerhouse, Santa Ana River 1 intake, Santa Ana River 1 settling basin, Santa Ana River No. 2 powerhouse, Mill Creek No. 1 Powerhouse, Mill Creek No. 3 intake, Mill Creek cottages, Santa Ana River No. 3 flume construction, Pacific Light & Power construction Photographs from 1903, Bear Valley Dam (Union Power Co.), Mill Creek 2 and 3 Powerhouse, Santa Ana River flood damage.

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