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<br />o <br />,"') <br />""'... <br />~ <br />(:':.) <br />~ <br /> <br />main control room contains all of the controls needed to operate <br /> <br />tlte pumps, and also the radio and carrier current telephone which <br /> <br />are used fol:' transmi ttin~ instructions, in the regul1'-tion of water <br /> <br />and power for the project, Another feature of this room is the remote <br /> <br />control board for the regulation of the spillway gates at the Shadow <br /> <br />Mountain Dam over a mile distant and intake gates at the Adams <br /> <br />Tunnel about seven miles away. It is po:;>sible to regulate the now <br /> <br />of water into the Adams Tunnel and into Granby Reservoir from the <br /> <br />Shadow:Mountain Reservoir by these controls, The noor immediately <br /> <br />below the ground surface is at elevation 8272 al1d is the location of <br /> <br />the cable spreading room, The power to run the pumps Gomes from the <br /> <br />Green Mountain ,and the eastern slope power plants through 69,000 kv <br /> <br />transmission lines to the swi tchyard northeast of the building, The <br /> <br />p01'rer transformers in the sri tchyard step-down the voltage to 6,900 <br /> <br />volts for the pump motors, and power is carried to the building through <br /> <br />cables in a connecting underground tunnel into the cable spreading room, <br /> <br />This room might well be compared to a nerve center of the human bodY9 <br /> <br />7 <br /> <br />~. < <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />