Electrical news and engineering . s decided to endeavor to force the bulkhead into was accomplished by loading it with rails and lettingit go with a run. It fell to within eighteen inches of thebottom of the opening and the water was successfullyturned over the top of the dam. This it had been decidedto leave for the summer incomplete, but sufficiently high to The River Banks are of Solid Rock timber in the flume is Douglas fir, kiln-dried, and is of thevery best quality. Both it and the sills are painted with pre-servative coat of asphaltum paint. This part of the workwas done by d
Electrical news and engineering . s decided to endeavor to force the bulkhead into was accomplished by loading it with rails and lettingit go with a run. It fell to within eighteen inches of thebottom of the opening and the water was successfullyturned over the top of the dam. This it had been decidedto leave for the summer incomplete, but sufficiently high to The River Banks are of Solid Rock timber in the flume is Douglas fir, kiln-dried, and is of thevery best quality. Both it and the sills are painted with pre-servative coat of asphaltum paint. This part of the workwas done by day labor. On the pipe-line are one-way poppet vatves, a man-door at the lower end, and a relief valve on the turbine cas-ing just outside of the power house, discharging into the tail-race. Design of the Dam The design of the dam is interesting, in view of itslocation upon a inicaceous schistose rock on the north side,which was seamed with quartzite and very treacherous andfaulty, which in the centre of the stream came in contact. fieseut aud UUiiiiute capacity of Fowei House take the water through the new penstock, which was thenconnected with the old flume, and operation under waterpower again resumed. It was unfortunate that is was foundimpossible to complete the gate-house at t\iat time, and thegate to the 8 x 12 sluiceway had to be blown out during thenext low water period and the gate-house foundations builtin the dry. The dam withstood the summer floods, in spiteof its incomplete condition and flat crest, showing littlesign of wear. The crest and piers have since been added. Construction Work—Revelstoke, B. t. with a later intrusion of more evenly laminated layers ofdiorite. This south wall of the canyon was precipitous,its top overhung the base about twelve feet. The dam waslocated on the roof connecting the two walls and giventhe form of an arch upstream by the bend in the dam nearthe north end. In this way, and taking advantage of theposition of the wall on the sout
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