Water Supply and Irrigation Papers of the United States Geological Survey . Fig. 10.—Plan of dam site of Kern-Rand Electric Power Company. to preclude, for the present at least, supplying it with power fromthat source. The Kern-Rand Electric Power Company, of Los Angeles, purposesto construct a rock-fill dam on the South Fork of Kern River, atMenache Meadows, and an initial power station near the upper end 32 RECONNAISSANCE OF KERN RIVER, CALIFORNIA. [no. of South Fork Valley, about 35 miles farther clown the stream. recent. somelogical trable during Atgeo-tiine Me-nache Meadowsmust have been
Water Supply and Irrigation Papers of the United States Geological Survey . Fig. 10.—Plan of dam site of Kern-Rand Electric Power Company. to preclude, for the present at least, supplying it with power fromthat source. The Kern-Rand Electric Power Company, of Los Angeles, purposesto construct a rock-fill dam on the South Fork of Kern River, atMenache Meadows, and an initial power station near the upper end 32 RECONNAISSANCE OF KERN RIVER, CALIFORNIA. [no. of South Fork Valley, about 35 miles farther clown the stream. recent. somelogical trable during Atgeo-tiine Me-nache Meadowsmust have been animmense mountainlake. A dam 65feet high wouldthrow the waterback 6 miles fromthe canyon mouth,in two arms 6 milesapart. A dam ofthat height wouldstore 63,700 acre-feet of water at amean depth of 18feet. There is noquestion that inan ordinary yearthe drainage areatributary to theSouth Fork andabove the Mead-ows (165 squaremiles) would fur-nish ample stor-age water for thisreservoir, al-though it is prob-able that in a sea-son like that of189 9-1900 therewould be a short-age. There is noreliable data fordetermining theminimum precipi-tation in MenacheMeadows, for gen-erally the snowslie so deep overthe mountainssurrounding thebasin as tomake it inipene-year. OLMSTED.] POWER of Menache Meadows reservoir site. Height above base of data. Surfacearea. Capacity. - Acres. 22 146 812 1,865 2,599 3,254 3,814 4,420 5,830 Acre-feet. 110 954 4,563 18,827 40,732 i9,885 105,236 146,419 248,852 20 30
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