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<br />,. <br /> <br />'I <br /> <br />~ <br />I <br />! <br /> <br />I: <br />'I <br />, <br />'I <br />I <br /> <br />~~: ~( Q <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />FOREWO/lU <br /> <br />9 <br /> <br />between Secretary of Interiot' and Six Companies, Inc. for <br />construction of Parker dam. <br />August. Contract awarded for construction of Cajalco dam <br />and dike. <br />Septemuer. Contract awarded for 230-kv transmis5ionline. <br />November. Contract awarded for uuilding the first pump- <br />ing plants - Intake and Gene. <br />November. First contracts awarded for distriuution sys- <br />tem pipe lines. <br />19:36 January. Contracts awarded for furnishing the first tifteen <br />pumps to be installed in the pumping plants. <br />May. Contract~ a\varded for furnishing s,ynchl'onous <br />motors for the fifteen pumps. <br />October. Colorado River first diverted through tunnels at <br />Parker dam. <br />1937 May. Concrete lining completed in Coachella tunnels. <br />July. First concrete placed in Parker dam. <br />August. 230-kv Boulder transmission line completed. <br />19;,8 February. Cajalco dam and dike completed. <br />July. Construction of last pumping plant at Hayfield com- <br />pleted. First \\"'ater over Parker dam. <br />August. Gene Wash and Copper Basin dams completed. <br />December. Contract awarded for Palos Verdes reservoir. <br />1939 Feuruary. Upper feeder completed to Eagle Rock. <br />October. Palos Verdes feeder completed. <br />November. First Colorado HiveI' water reached Cajalco <br />Basin. <br />Nmcember., _Contractaw arded-foJ:constl,uc.ti on, of-soite ni ng <br />and filtration plant on the upper feeder at La Verne. <br />November. Construction of Parker power plant started by <br />U. S. Bureau of Reclamation, earlier than originally planned, <br />in order to relieve a severe power shortage in Arizona and to <br />furnish power for pumping on the Gila irrigation project in <br />sou thwestern Arizona. <br />December. Palos Verdes resermir completed. <br />1940 February. First release of Colorado River water into the <br />upper feeder from the head works structure at Lake Mathews. <br />August. Contract awarded for construction of a connection <br />between the upper feeder and Morris reservoir. <br />September. Contract awarded for construction of the <br />Orange Count.y reservoir. <br /> <br />') <br />l <br /> <br />, <br />1\ <br /> <br />\ <br />'\ <br />