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<br />- - ..,..., <br />...~.i.J <br /> <br />CHAPTER 5 <br /> <br />CONSTRUCTION <br /> <br />THERE was no major construction work in progress during <br />the fiscal year, Designing of a second unit of the softening <br />and filtra tion plant was started with construction scheduled <br />to begin in 1947. This second unit will raise the plant capacity to <br />310 cubic feet per second, nr 200,000,000 gallons per day. <br /> <br />Additions alld betterments <br /> <br />A small amount of minor construction was completed or com- <br />menced during the year as additions to or betterments of the <br />aqueduct. system. <br />At Gene camp two 20-man dormitories. used during the con- <br />struction period. wen' remodeled into four apartments for married <br />employees to relieve an acute housing shortage. The remodeling <br />was finished in April 1946, <br />Since completion of the cottages in the camp at Camino switch. <br />ing station on the 230-kv transmission line, electric energy for all <br />camp uses has been supplied by small gas e'ngine.driven generators, <br />In order to increase the supply of power and to reduce the rela- <br />tively high costs of operation and maintenance. a single. phase con. <br />nection is being made to the 230-kv transmission line. A cascade <br />connection using eight 3~~,000 volt transformers from salvage stock <br />will deliver 100 kva at 2300 volts to the camp distributing system, <br />Completion of this novel installation was delayed by nonreceipt of <br />certain small items of equipment, but the transformers are expected <br />to be placed in operation early in 1947. <br />In the distribution ~ystem a new In-inch diameter pressure-break <br />valve was installed at the north portal of Hollywood tunnel and <br />preparations were made to install a motor.operated emergency slide <br />gate with automatic control at the south portal of the tunnel; new <br />pressure relief valves were installed in the Beverly ,Hills valve <br />structure; and a 12-inch connection was made on the Orange <br />County feeder south of ~anta Ana to provide service in all <br />emergency to Newport Heights Irrigation District, a constituent <br />of Coastal Municipal Water District. <br /> <br />r 62 1 <br /> <br />J <br />