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Identifier: pacificservicema1019paci (find matches)
Title: Pacific service magazine
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Subjects: Pacific Gas and Electric Company Electric utilities Electrical engineering Public utilities
Publisher: San Francisco : Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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he tunnel to theend of the canal theearth is of clay andgravel, forming an excel-lent ground for ditchingpurposes. Beyond thetunnel the canal windsaround the slopes andhead branches of the val-ley of Jackson Creek, ata height of 400 to 500feet above the level of The Pacific Service substation at Sutter Creek, whence power is dis- Lake Tabeaud, above Electra Power House water for the operation of the ElectraSystem originate in Blue Creek, the outletof Upper and Lower Blue Lakes. Thecatchment area drained by tliese twolakes is, by actual survey, 3050 acres, andthe surplus water after the lakes are filledis discharged into Blue Creek and flowsthrough Clover Valley to its junction withDeer Creek, thence into the North Forkof the Mokelumne River and down itssteep rocky bed for a distance of fortymiles, at which point the water is divertedinto the Upper Standard Canal, at anelevation of 2400 feet, and a mile fartherdownstream, into the Amador, or LowerStandard, Canal at an elevation of 2240
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tributed to the mining communities of the Mother Lode. Jackson, until it reaches 208 Pacific Service Magazine Summit Ridge, between Sutter and Jack-son Creeks, along which it passes to Tan-ner Reservoir near the town of SutterCreek. From Tanner Reservoir are suppliedthe distribution ditches which deliverwater to the mines and domestic com-munities in this region. The foregoing list of lakes and reser- these from the standpoint of economicaldevelopment is the Deer Valley site, threemiles below the dam of Lower Blue Lake.Concerning this reservoir site it is inter-esting to note that the waste waters fromthe two Blue Lakes and, also, the flowfrom Indian Creek and a number of smalllakes in Indian Valley pass through thesite of the Deer Vallev reservoir. At the

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