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1170 I . 2 METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT As described in the history and first annual report, this initial development of the project provides for construction of certain features to ultimate size or capacity, and other readily divisible features to half capacity, or less, with later expansion as the need for water develops. The pumping plants, for example, have a sub- structure of full size for nine pumps, superstructure for five pumps, and three pumps are now installed with a capacity of 200 cubic feet per second each. During the period covered by this report the main aqueduct portion of the project, from the Intake pumping plant to Lake Mathews in the Cajalco basin was virtually completed and 51,000 acre feet of water delivered to Lake Mathews storage in connection with testing the five pumping plants. There remain only some minor additions to housing facilities at the camps, completion of the installation, now in progress, of lightning arresters on the 230,000-volt transmission lines, and provision at each pumping plant of a standby gas engine-driven generator to supply power in emergency for lighting and camp uses. On the distribution system the entire upper feeder is completed, extending through Pasadena to its terminus in Glendale. The feeder from Eagle Rock Canyon to Palos Verdes reservoir is finished, as well as lat- erals to the city limits of Compton, Torrance, and Long Beach. This feeder on its southerly course passes through the Eagle Rock and Highland Park sections of Los Angeles, through the west side of South Pasadena, through the east side of Los Angeles, with a lateral to the Ascot reservoir, through Vernon, and continues south- westerly in county territory to the Palos Verdes Hills. On the Glendale-to-Santa Monica feeder construction of a short tunnel through the Hollywood hills under Mulholland Highway is in progress; contracts have been awarded and pipe is being fabri- cated for the portion from the west portal of San Rafael No. 2 tunnel in Glendale to Burbank; and contracts were awarded June 28, 1940 on the remaining portions between Burbank and Santa Monica. Specifications were issued June 21, 1940 for the Orange County feeder with bid opening set for July 10, 1940. At the water softening and filtration plant on the upper feeder, work is ahead of schedule, and construction will soon be under way on the waste water disposal line from the plant to Whittier, where connection can be made to the existing Los Angeles County sewer system. On January 7, 1939 the official starting of the Intake pumps was celebrated, the event being broadcast nationally by the Columbia J