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<br />Willow Creek Reser"Vo:lx, together with an appurtenant pumping <br />plant and. pump canal, will regulate Willow Creek flows and.. transfer <br />surplus waters to Granby Reservo:lx. Plans for this feature inclUde <br />the construction of an earth and. rockfill type dam on Willow Creek <br />about 4.5 miles north of Granby and a canal, 3.4 miles long, lead- <br />ing from the reservoir to the pumping plant and thence to Granby <br />Re servoir. <br /> <br />Granby Pumping Plant (1947-1950) is located on the north shore <br />of Granby Reservoir about three miles north of Granby Dam. The <br />pumping units Hft water frarr Granby Reservoir to the Granby Pump <br />Canal which carries the water north to Shadow Mountain Lake. This <br />plant is exceeded in size by only two other Reclamation pumping <br />plants--the Grand Coulee Pumping Plant at Grand. Coulee Dam on the <br />Columbia River and the Tracy Pumping Plant, a feature of the Central <br />Valley Project in California. <br /> <br /> <br />. <br />,. <br /> <br />Cutaway Sketch - Granby Pumping Plant. <br /> <br />The structure housing the pumping plant is a reinforced concrete <br />building, 180 feet in height, two-th:lxds of which is located below <br />the norJDBJ. water surface elevation of Granby Reservoir. The building <br />houses three turbine type pumps, each powered by a 6,000-horsepower, <br /> <br />12 <br />