. Pacific Gas and Electric magazine. Looking upstream, showing destruction of flume ty flood. further work to be expected at any time, andwith the bedrock still to be cleaned and the5,000 yards of concrete still to be the conditions it was not possible toreconstruct the flume as well as desirable,with the result that there was some leakagefrom it as well as from the diverting dam, andalso an accumulation of water in the looserocks in the dam site to be handled. A 6-inch centrifugal pump was immedi-ately installed and started, but such was theleakage that it was found the pump coul
. Pacific Gas and Electric magazine. Looking upstream, showing destruction of flume ty flood. further work to be expected at any time, andwith the bedrock still to be cleaned and the5,000 yards of concrete still to be the conditions it was not possible toreconstruct the flume as well as desirable,with the result that there was some leakagefrom it as well as from the diverting dam, andalso an accumulation of water in the looserocks in the dam site to be handled. A 6-inch centrifugal pump was immedi-ately installed and started, but such was theleakage that it was found the pump couldonly gain on the water by a narrow pumps had been ordered but hadbeen delayed in transit, and as they had notarrived the one pump was speeded up beyondits ordinary speed until the water began tofall. After twelve hours continuous pump-ing the water level had lowered several feet,and it was estimated that by the followingmorning the bedrock would be sufficientlydry to admit of cleaning it and placing theconcrete. H
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