Search Results: Pumping Plant
The largest pumping station in the State Water Project, the plant raises the California Aqueduct's water 2,000 feet over the Tehachapi Mountains, after which it is all downhill to Los Angeles. The plant claims to lift water higher than anywhere else in the world. The...
Hinds is the last of five major pumping plants along the Colorado River Aqueduct, which is one of the three major aqueducts that bring water to Los Angeles. The aqueduct was completed in 1941, and carries water 242 miles from Lake Havasu, on the Colorado River, to Lake...
This pumping station marks the beginning of the 444-mile California Aqueduct, the central artery of the State Water Project, one of three major aqueduct systems in the state. Water is drawn out of the Sacramento River Delta through this plant, and begins its journey...
Third of four pumping plants along the Colorado River Aqueduct, bringing water 250 miles across the desert to the Los Angeles region.
Down a tunnel, 700 feet below Northfield Mountain, in western Massachusetts, is the third largest power plant in the state. The plant operates by pumping water out of the Connecticut River through pipes drilled in the mountain, and into a reservoir near the summit....
The Deer Island waste treatment plant processes Boston's sewage and is the second largest sewage treatment plant in the country (Chicago's is larger). The plant is capable of handling more than a billion gallons of wastewater per day, ejecting treated effluent out...
One of the three major aqueduct systems that make Los Angeles possible. The aqueduct carries water 242 miles, from Lake Havasu, on the Colorado River, to Lake Matthews in western Riverside County, at the edge of the Great City. Built by the Metropolitan District Water...
This is one of the most productive oil fields in the country, and for 86 years it was owned by the federal government as part of the National Petroleum Reserve. In 1998, it was sold to Occidental petroleum for $3.65 billion, the largest federal divestiture in American...
A solar power plant with a peak output of 45 megawatts. Known as SEGS 1 and 2 , this was the first of three separately owned sites within 40 miles of one another that make up the none solar fields in the Solar Electric Generating System (SEGS). Together the facilities...
The legendary Grand Coulee Dam is still one of the largest concrete dams in the world, and the largest hydroelectric plant in the country (third largest in the world), generating 6,500 megawatts of power. It is also the origin of the Columbia Basin Project, where water...
Cape Henlopen is an interesting mix of scattered dunes, and former military fortifications, located on a natural promontory on the Delaware side of the mouth of Delaware Bay, across from Cape May New Jersey. As the gateway to the Delaware River, and the cities of...