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<br />wiper blade up there. These things are spaced around the cutter head <br />and the material that is ground off is carried around and up on top of <br />the cutter head. The conveyor belt is not in place on this machine <br />during the time this photograph was taken. But all this material is <br />deposited on. top of a conveyor belt,. which takes the material back along <br />the top of the tunnel and dumps it into muck cars. It's a very clean <br />operation. There is no dust and very little noise. It works out very <br />well. <br /> <br />. <br />(Slide) Now, this is what that machine looked like about three years <br />later and about three miles of going through hard granite. It came.out <br />the other end. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />(Slide) <br />Tunnel. <br />side of <br /> <br />Skipping to the East Slope, this is the outlet of the Boustead <br />The people you see there with the jugs along the right hand <br />the photograph are there to capture the first water through. <br /> <br />(Slide) The first storage facility below the Boustead Tunnel is Sugar <br />Loaf Dam and Turquoise Lake. This dam is also complete. <br /> <br />(Slide) This is another shot of the reservoir area from far up on top. <br /> <br />(Slide) From Sugar Loaf Dam and Turquoise Lake, we move down to the <br />Twin Lakes area. : The Mt. Elbert Conduit,: which will deliver water from <br />the forebay,:will come down from the top: of the photograph. -And if you <br />will look very closely, in the upper left hand' corner you can see the <br />construction activity that is taking place at the present time on <br />building the-Mt. Elbert Pump Storage: Power Plant. That little white <br />slot" that goes up towards the center of the. photograph is the penstock <br />trench. <br /> <br />. . <br />In the cleared area at the top of that little white slot is the forebay <br />reservoir area~ That is under construction at the present time. 'There <br />will be a switch yard off in the trees to the.right. From the power <br />plant, the .main cable, the 230 kv cable, that will run from the power <br />plant up.to the switch yard will be buried along side of that penstock <br />trench. This is kind of a pioneering effort. It's 230 kv and it will <br />be buried in a concrete box filled with sand. <br /> <br />(Slide) Now, to the Mt. Elbert Pump Storage Power Plant. This structure <br />is much further along than shown by this photograph. The dike off to <br />the lower left is actually the Highway 82 relocation. We had two prob- <br />lems here. One, we had to build a cofferdam out on that corner of the <br />lake in order to protect the construction activities involved with the <br />power plant itself. Also we had to relocate Highway 82. So we . I <br />combined the two and everything worked out real well until we started <br />to place that fill. When we started to place that fill, we turned that <br />beautiful azure blue lake kine of a murky turquoise, which caused con- <br />siderable concern and people were upset for quite some time. But in a <br />matter. of months, it returned to its beautiful blue color and everybody <br />lived happily ever after. <br /> <br />(Slide) As you can see here, the power plant is much further along than <br />the last photograph. Once we remove the Highway 82 detour, which also <br /> <br />-4- <br />