Identifier: developmentelect00lynd (find matches)
Title: Development and electrical distribution of water power
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Lyndon, Lamar, 1871-
Subjects: Hydroelectric power plants
Publisher: New York, Wiley
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ew feet across the roof above each entrance.From the eaves of the building, the leads converge onto the firsttower of the transmission line. Transmission Line—Route.—From the power-house the trans-mission line runs, as near as may be in a straight line to the mouthof the Kern River Canyon, 2 J miles distant, where it sweeps offto the left across the Cottonwood Hills, and then takes a due southcourse across the edge of the Bakersfield plains. The line thenenters the mountainous section through Tejon Canyon, followsacross the end of Castaic Lake, and crosses the Coast Range di-vide immediately above German Station. This is the steepest portion of the transmission line, as the 298 DEVELOPMENT AND DISTRIBUTION OF WATER POWER drop from the top of the hill to the road below is over 1,000 feet in3,500 feet. From here south the transmission line follows the watersof Piru Creek and its tributaries, the character of the countrychanging gradually from low, rounded hills with grassy slopes to
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Scate o /o zo so I I I I ■ Fig. 152.—Map of Transmission Line. deep, narrow gorges walled wTith precipitous shale cliffs capped withsandstone ledges. A section here of about 5 miles involved very difficult work.Heavy angles, both vertical and horizontal, were necessary in adistrict where no permanent wagon road could be maintained KERN RIVER PLANT 299 and where the tower footings were mostly in loose shale. OneU-bend of the river was crossed by means of a 2,250-foot span be-tween the main supports, guided by an entirely unloaded tower atthe bottom of the sag. Leaving the Piru Canyon, the line passes in an almost straightline across about 15 miles of rocky land covered with scattered oaksand chaparral. After reaching the last crest of this district, theline falls away rapidly to the open country surrounding Newhall.Across this entire district it was necessary to construct a permanentwagon road to haul supplies and permit of patrolling the line dur-ing operation. In the Newhall dist

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