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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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h whichthe water is carried on its way to thegreat power plant at Electra, some eightymiles to the southwest. The waters from Pacific Service Magazine 205 Blue Lakes pour into the Mokelumne byway of Blue Creek, Deer Valley and thecreek of the same name. It is all, as I have said, wild sceneryand picturesque to a degree. There is ex-cellent fishing in the lakes and there isgood mountain hiking. Round Top Moun-tain, Nigger Head Peak and the Nippleare all eminences upwards of 9000 feetabove sea level. It seems appropriate here to give a de-scription of the Blue Lakes region from shall take the place of oil that is badlyneeded for other purposes. The Blue Lakes are a picturesquecluster of storage reservoirs situated inAlpine County near the summit of theSierra Nevada. They, with Bear RiverReservoir in Amador County, are the chiefsources of water supply for our com-panys Electra power district. The BlueLakes group embraces Upper or WestBlue Lake, Lower Blue Lake, Twin Lakesand Meadow Lake.
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Twin Lakes. Raymond Peak and upper end of Indian Valley in the distance. the standpoint of water supply for poweras well as domestic purposes. The fol-lowing data should be of general interestat the present time by reason of theState-wide discussion upon the hydro-electric problem, one which is engrossingthe attention not only of the power com-panies but, also, of the United StatesGovernment at Washington, with a viewto determine how far it will be possiblein the near future to turn the snow-watersfrom Californias mountain ranges intoaccount to provide the white coal that Upper Blue Lake is a deep mountainlake of fresh, pure water, situated at anelevation of 8100 feet above sea level.In its original construction it comprised230 acres, but, in 1901, work was com-pleted on a dam across its outlet whichincreased the flooded area to 343.5 acres.The capacity of the reservoir is 7700acre-feet with a catchment area of 1728acres. Lower Blue Lake lies two miles southof Upper Blue Lake, which e

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1918
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  • bookid:pacificservicema1019paci
  • bookyear:1912
  • bookdecade:1910
  • bookcentury:1900
  • bookauthor:Pacific_Gas_and_Electric_Company
  • booksubject:Pacific_Gas_and_Electric_Company
  • booksubject:Electric_utilities
  • booksubject:Electrical_engineering
  • booksubject:Public_utilities
  • bookpublisher:San_Francisco___Pacific_Gas_and_Electric_Company
  • bookcontributor:San_Francisco_Public_Library
  • booksponsor:San_Francisco_Public_Library
  • bookleafnumber:246
  • bookcollection:sanfranciscopubliclibrary
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