. Electric railway journal . .■Top of Intake Well at Approximate Ground Level). Washington & Old Dominion Railway—Plan and Sections of Intake River had been free from silt or if the power stationhad been large enough to require a quantity of con-densing water sufficient to produce a rate of flow thatwould have kept the silt from settling in it. The intakewas about 7 ft. wide, its bottom being about 5 ft. belowmean and 2 ft. below extreme low water, the latter occur-ring when a northwest wind is simultaneous with low the condenser suction from the original plant consistedof but one 12-i
. Electric railway journal . .■Top of Intake Well at Approximate Ground Level). Washington & Old Dominion Railway—Plan and Sections of Intake River had been free from silt or if the power stationhad been large enough to require a quantity of con-densing water sufficient to produce a rate of flow thatwould have kept the silt from settling in it. The intakewas about 7 ft. wide, its bottom being about 5 ft. belowmean and 2 ft. below extreme low water, the latter occur-ring when a northwest wind is simultaneous with low the condenser suction from the original plant consistedof but one 12-in. pipe and as the usual flow through thispipe was only about half its capacity, the current in theintake at ordinary tide levels was imperceptible, and theplant had run only a few months before the intake channelbecame effectively banked with mud at the river few hundred dollars properly expended for lumber andlabor would probably have overcome the silting, but afterseveral years of intermittent shutdowns a cooling pond wascreated on the adjacent flat alongside
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