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Big Creek: Construction on Florence Lake (Ward) Tunnel


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  • Big Creek - Construction on Florence Lake (Ward) Tunnel

    Big Creek - Construction on Florence Lake (Ward) Tunnel

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    Big Creek - [Construction on Florence Lake (Ward) Tunnel - Adit, Electric train, concrete batch cars, group photos, powder magazine, setting drills, firing switches, steam shovel, tunnel mucking, tunnel breakthrough, tunnel mess train, first round at intake portal, intake portal, outlet portal with flow, outlet flume washout; Camps 31, 60, 61, 62, 63 - Library, bath house, housing, Kangaroo Court, boxing match, tool sharpening shop, hospital, office, kitchen, cold storage, ice house, warehouse, dining room, sawmill, Editor's Party, transmission line, blacksmith shop; Huntington Lake - Daw's Cottage; Cascada - Recreation Hall.]

    photCL SCE 13 - vol 024

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    Big Creek: Tunnels

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    Tunnels 1, 3, and 8, including intake construction at Tunnel 3, portal adit Camp 36, Camp 35 adit, outlet portal, Penstock 3 portal structure and manifold, surge chamber, drill sharpeners, connecting 18' penstock to manifold, butterfly valve house, flume to sluicing water at outlet, guests standing in 18' penstock, sluicing tunnel; Stevenson Creek, Camps 33, 34, 35, 36, 37 and 38 compressors, Camp 38 mess hall, Camp 33; Cascada - Baldwin 15 ton locomotive No. 4; Tunnel 8 construction, Adit 1; Intake at Dam 1 repairs.

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  • Big Creek, Florence Lake Dam - Florence Lake Tunnel

    Big Creek, Florence Lake Dam - Florence Lake Tunnel

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    Big Creek, Florence Lake Dam - Florence Lake Tunnel - showing flow from tunnel outlet [with 3 men sitting on outlet portal structure]

    photCL SCE 02 - 23774

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    F.P.C. Vol. 3, Projects 67 and 120 - Construction of Big Creek Powerhouse 3 and construction camps

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    Construction of Powerhouse 3 and construction camps 1 to 54. Views include Tunnel 3, including intake construction, portal adit Camp 36, Camp 35 adit, outlet portal; Penstock 3 portal structure and manifold, surge chamber, drill sharpeners, connecting 18' penstock to manifold, butterfly valve house, flume to railroad sluicing water at outlet; Tunnel 3 excavation; Surge chamber construction; Construction views of Powerhouse 3, installation of 3 penstocks, turbine and generator installations at No. 3; Construction of 220kV switchyard.

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  • Big Creek, Florence Lake Dam - Intake portal Florence Lake Tunnel

    Big Creek, Florence Lake Dam - Intake portal Florence Lake Tunnel

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    Big Creek, Florence Lake Dam - Intake portal Florence Lake Tunnel -Drilling for first round of explosives.

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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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