Photographs Documenting Construction of the Mandalay Steam Station Cooling Water Intake Canal: Finding Aid photCL 699
Suzanne Oatey
The Huntington Library
May 2023
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The Huntington Library
Title: Photographs documenting construction of the Mandalay Steam Station Cooling Water
Intake Canal
Identifier/Call Number: photCL 699
Physical Description:
0.83 Linear Feet
(1 box)
Date (inclusive): 1958-1959
Abstract: Three photograph albums documenting the
construction of a seawater intake canal by Southern California Edison Company for the
Mandalay thermal power station on the coast of Oxnard in Ventura County, California. The
photographs were compiled by an unidentified civil engineer working on the Edison Canal
project.
Language of Material: Materials are in
English.
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[Identification of item]. Photographs documenting construction of the Mandalay Steam
Station Cooling Water Intake Canal, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Joan Zinser, April 2023.
Three photograph albums documenting the construction of a seawater intake canal by Southern
California Edison Company for the Mandalay thermal power station on the coast of Oxnard in
Ventura County, California. The photographs were compiled by an unidentified civil engineer
working on the Edison Canal project from 1958 to 1959. The canal was designed to bring
cooling water from the Channel Islands Harbor into the Mandalay station. Images include the
power plant, heavy equipment, bridges in the harbor, dredging, workers, and aerial views of
the area. In 2010, the California State Water Resources Control Board ordered power plants
that draw in sea water for cooling to shut down by 2020; the Mandalay station was
decommissioned in 2018. The prints are in color and black-and-white, and are all dated and
captioned.
Processed by Suzanne Oatey in May 2023.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Civil engineering -- California -- Ventura County
Electric power-plants
Energy policy -- California
Harbors -- California -- Channel Islands
Steam power plants
Oxnard (Calif.)
Photograph albums
Photographs
Southern California Edison Company
Box 1
Photographs documenting construction of the Mandalay Steam Station Cooling Water Intake Canal