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Big Creek: Shaver Lake No. 2

Description: Shaver Lake No. 2. Shaver Dam construction, including excavation, forms, concrete placement, diversions, Shaver Lake and old dam, aggregate conveyor belt, old dam and intake to Shaver Tunnel, quarry, duplex valve near Dam 2, Bear diversion dam, construction of Shaver Dam, finished dam showing areas with some leakage.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1918 - 1928
Call number: photCL SCE
Creator: Southern California Edison Company(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Edison International, December 2005.
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Big Creek: Shaver Lake No. 1

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Shaver Lake No. 1. Shaver Dam construction, including original lake bed, logging area of expansion, blacksmith shop, weirs at sawmill, Shaver Lake office and mess hall, original dam, surveys for new dam, Shaver Tunnel, Shaver flume from old dam entering tunnel, Adit 8 excavation, flushing tunnel outlet, Shaver Lake Railroad, Camp 11, lumber operations, Camp 19, Shaver cookhouse fire, dismantling Shaver railroad.

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Big Creek: Mono-Bear and Huntington-Shaver Diversions

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Views of Bear Dam, Mono Dam, Mono-Bear pipelines and diversions, and Huntington -Shaver diversions. Construction of Bear Creek Dam and intake structure, and Mono Creek Dam and intake structure, logging area for Mono Creek reservoir, pipeline crossing south fork of San Joaquin River, Camps 71, 72, 73, 80, 81, 82, 83, and 85; Mono-Bear siphon, backfilled siphon and pipeline, tunnels, pipeline installations, outlets of Mono and Bear Tunnels, intake of Bear Tunnel at Camp 86, Intake of Mono tunnel, Big Creek siphon, duplex valve on Huntington-Pitman-Shaver conduit and tunnel, intake for conduit at Dam 2, Warehouse, Mess hall and Hospital at Camp 73.

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Big Creek construction

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Big Creek, including tunnel excavation, Bear Dam, Mono Dam, Mono-Bear siphon construction; Florence Lake Dam construction, Ward Tunnel spilling; Shaver Lake Dam construction, concrete mixing plant, first concrete, screening plant, Quarry, Powerhouse 2A construction, Stevenson Test Dam construction; Gauging San Joaquin River, Herminghaus Ranch.

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