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<br />~ .. ,.~ ..."!' <br />~~ Ii <br /> <br />16 <br /> <br />METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT <br /> <br />February 23, 1952. Fortunately the wire fell to the ground without <br />interrupting service. <br />Before installing the new dampers, the stranded steel ground <br />cable was reinforced by twisting preformed armor rods around it. <br />The added strength is sufficient to prevent failure of the steel cable, <br />even with all strands broken within the reinforcement. The length <br />was continuous through the dampers and the point of 8lIspension of <br />the cable. This required a larger suspension clamp at each point of <br />support. <br />There were no nonscheduled outages due to causes originating <br />Oil the 230-kl' line. However, thel'e was one outage caused by light- <br />ning on the 69-kv line, between Gene and Intake pumping plants. <br />Service was restored immediately after the outage. <br />A list of nOllscheduled outages on the transmission system, as <br />showll by the following table, indicates the value of overhead ground <br />wires. <br /> <br />FI<'c.-\1. Y[AR <br /> <br />19.1f1.,39 (fir~t yt'ar "f opcf<lli..n) .. <br />Il};W..W.. <br />]9.0"1l .. <br />19.1142 ..... <br /> <br />lY'12..t3 ..... .............. <br /> <br />NU~lBm <br />OF OUT.\GI:.'i <br /> <br />............ .......... 2 <br />38 <br />........... .........".... 22 <br />2:) <br />3.3 <br /> <br />(;HPIJNO WII1I::S IN SEI\\"ICf. <br /> <br />1IJ43.4'~ ................................................".... 1 <br />J9+4-..lS .. .............................................. 0 <br />19.1.5-lfi . ...... ........, .... ... . ... ........ ....... I <br />19.tfi.47 ..... 0 <br />1917-18 ... 0 <br />19.8-49 ... 1 <br />1949..\0 . 0 <br />1%0-51 . () <br />]%1..\2.. 0 <br /> <br />There were 38 cases of telephone line trouble Oil the District's <br />438 miles of pole line. The most extensive trouble occurred on July <br />28,1951 when 14 poles, near Wide Canyon, were washed away during <br />a flash flood. Other trouble was minor ill nature, consisting of <br />bl'Oken and crossed wires, usually the result of windstorms, light- <br />ning, or hunters shooting at the line. <br /> <br />Power ]'{'sullra.s a"lId /lse <br /> <br />Under existing contracts there wiJI be available to the District a <br />total generating capacity of 297,500 kilowatts, sufficient to provide <br />at least 1,675 miJIion kilowatthours annually for pumpillg 800,000 <br />acre-feet of water through the aqueduct. At present a total of only <br />