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Finding Aid to Construction photographs of Pardee Dam, California, 1929-1933, undated
BANC PIC 1996.020 v.2--ALB
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Pardee Dam, -- Construction View, -- Showing main chute at right, which carries concrete mixture from plant on hill to base of tower. Mixture is then raised to hoppers, shown in tower, then down through chutes hung on counter-weights and finally through pipes called "elephant's trunks," moved where concrete is to be placed.
Pardee Dam, Construction View, -- Show penstocks for the two units of the power plants placed in lower portion of dam. These penstocks are 72 inches in diameter. The combined flow that can be passed through the 2 penstocks and the four sluice pipes, when the reservoir is full, is 6,000 cu. ft. per sec.
Pardee Dam, Construction View, -- General view, showing upstream face of dam, contractor's mixing plant, cable ways, towers, and pouring chutes.
Pardee Dam, -- Construction View, -- Showing main construction tower in center of dam, with cage for lowering men to work. Height of tower above river, 380 feet.
Pardee Dam, General Construction View, -- Showing mixing plant on south bank.
Pardee Dam, Construction View, Showing trash racks built in from [sic] of inlet towers to sluice pipes.
Pardee Dam, Construction View, -- Interior of Mixing Plant showing gravel mixture, run out from bunkers on endless belt and dumped into chuter [sic]. Cement is added from hopper over chute.
Pardee Dam, Construction View, -- Showing battery of four, 2 yd. mixers. Plant had a capaicty of 2,100 cu. yds. of concrete in two, 8 hr. shifts. Maximum daily pour, 4,016 cu. yds.
Pardee Dam, -- General Construction View, -- Showing downstream face, with steps at bottom where power plant will be built.
Round Top, El. 10,430 at right; Thimble Peak, El. 9,870 at left. From above Silver Lake, May 8, 1931.
Pardee Dam, General Construction View -- Showing upstream face with trash rack for intake to penstocks, at upper part.
Pardee Dam, Construction View, -- Showing night work in progress. Work went on continually, night and day.
Pardee Dam, Construction View, -- Showing spread of pouring operations across entire length of dam.
Pardee Dam, Upstream face, showing gate house on top of dam. Flow through penstocks or sluice pipes can be controlled by these gates.
General View showing Pardee Dam and Reservoir, with South Spillway beyond dam and Camp Pardee further back.
Pardee Dam and Lake Pardee. April 3, 1930, Lake elevation 518 ft.
Jackson Creek Spillway, -- Upstream face, toward Pardee Reservoir. This spillway is not used, but the overflow of the reservoir could be let through it to Jackson Creek, if the Arroyo Seco reservoir should ever be built.
Jackson Creek Spillway, Downstream face, showing syphons.
Pardee Dam, Showing Power Plant at base and discharge from two sluice pipes.
Genearal [sic] View of Pardee Dam, Reservoir and Power Plant.
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