Pacific Gas and Electric magazine . tembeing tied together and draining to low-points at which the pumps are located. There are about twenty miles ofdredged 25x5 canals at the present time. At unit No. 1 on the Novato creek thereis a 3-phasc, 480-volt, 50 h. p. G. E. motordriving a 20-inch Price pump, discharg-ing 14,000 gallons per minute, this plantbeing the first Pacific Service installa-tion on the ranch. On getting back onthe main road, we cross under the Cor-delia-San Rafael steel tower H. T. line,which has a right-of-way over the prop-erty, and proceed to the bay shore, whereunit No. 3
Pacific Gas and Electric magazine . tembeing tied together and draining to low-points at which the pumps are located. There are about twenty miles ofdredged 25x5 canals at the present time. At unit No. 1 on the Novato creek thereis a 3-phasc, 480-volt, 50 h. p. G. E. motordriving a 20-inch Price pump, discharg-ing 14,000 gallons per minute, this plantbeing the first Pacific Service installa-tion on the ranch. On getting back onthe main road, we cross under the Cor-delia-San Rafael steel tower H. T. line,which has a right-of-way over the prop-erty, and proceed to the bay shore, whereunit No. 3 is located. This, the most re-cent installation, comprises a 3-phase550-volt, 15(1 h. p. Westinghouse motordriving a 2()-inch Price pump, discharg-ing 35,000 gallons of water per minuteinto San Iablo bay. \\lun one stops to considei tlu tcilal installation of 350 h. p. operating atonce, discharging water at the rate of75,000 gallons per minute, or 4,500,000gallons per hour, the magnitude of thisreclamation project becomes Installing discharge pipe i<n- unit No. :i. Service is supplied by the companyfrom an 11 K. V. line running out of SanRafael substation, the entire load beingmetered on the primary side at one cen-tral point near the home ranch-house.
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