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<br />" - <br />,...[8 <br /> <br />, " <br /> <br />OPERATION A1'<O MAINTENANCE <br /> <br />11 <br /> <br />The following table gives the hours of pump operation, energy <br />used and acre feet of water pumped during the fiscal year 1946-47: <br /> <br />! PUMP HOllRS KWHR KWlln Fon WATER <br />PL,\NT 0' 'OR STATION PUMPEO <br /> OI'ERATION PLJIIII'IN(; SEIl\'lr:F. ACRE F'U:T <br />" ("lake 4,96-:\.20 ::'.0,966,000 116.500 P'Q,655.0 <br /> Gene ... 4.77P..69 31,234.000 1,122.500 H9,716.6 <br /> lwn Muuntain ,J..54-3.12 13,152,000 534,400 79,072.3 <br /> Eagle l\ff)lJlIlain .......... 4,516.77 39,672,000 456.S00 76.202.5 <br /> Ha.field . .. 4.466.77 40.177,000 411.700 7S.377.3 <br /> C3;ninn 28.380 <br /> --- <br /> TOlal 15S,20J,000 2,669,980 <br /> KWHIl <br /> 'filial enerp:y tlst'd Oil VlIl11Ving s}'slell1... .157.R70.9HO <br /> Trall!i.lTlission and trans((lTnlatioll ]')s~es 10,906,681 <br /> Tolal Huo\'er energy lI~eJ for pnmping: system.. ...m................ ......168,777,661 <br /> <br />~ <br />,\ <br /> <br />Routine maintenance of the three pumps and motors and the <br />single steel delivery pipe at each of the five plants was carried on. <br />Reconstruction of the operating mechanisms of the last four of the <br />nine pump discharge valves at Intake, Gene and Iron Mountain <br />plants was completed. The sewer system at Eagle Mountain camp <br />was reconditioned and largely rebuilt. The water well and its <br />equipment at Camino camp gave signs of failure and repairs were <br />undertaken. The employment of women telephone operators at the <br />pumping plants was terminated .June 30, 1947. A resident physi- <br />cian was employed and stationed at Gene headquarters camp for <br />District employees located east of Banning, <br />The force required to operate the pumping plants, transmission <br />lines and telephone system, and to maintain patrol roads averaged <br />75 during the year. The mess hall and dormitory at Gene camp <br />were in continuous operation, and the mess hall at Eagle Mountain <br />for a short time to accommodate the crews engaged in work on the <br />addition to the sewage disposal system alld construction of a swim- <br />ming pool. <br /> <br />Additio1ls aud betterments <br />The 230-kv cascade bank of transformers for serving Camino <br />camp with power from Hoover Dam was placed in successful <br />operation. Electric refrigerators and desert coolers were installed <br />in the cottages at that camp. Trial installations were made of <br />power-driven compressors and improved types of heat exchangers <br />ill an effort to improve the operation of coolers for the operators' <br />cottages at the pumping plants. The Edison' Company completed <br />the installation of a 230-kv oil circuit breaker in the Camino-Gene <br /> <br />1\ <br />