Distributing Stations: Delivering Power to the People
Powered by receiving stations, distributing stations are the last link in the high-voltage chain. They deliver their current to the community that surrounds them, usually in the form of 4,800-volt feeder lines which leave the station on top of poles, or are buried underground. The lines loop out in a vast circuit, stringing together businesses and homes, where the current is generally stepped down to 240 volts on a pole-mounted transformer. There are currently more than 120 standard distributing stations operated by DWP (and another few dozen small pole-top versions) each with a numerical designation. Most also have a name, derived from the street location, or the community they are in. The older ones look like temples of infrastructure, solid architectural fixtures facing the street. More recent ones are constructed in a style meant to blend in, intending perhaps to be unnoticed.
DS-1
DS-2 GARVANZA
DS-3 SAN PEDRO
DS-4 SLAUSON
DS-5 MATEO
DS-6 VINE
DS-7 CIVIC CENTER
DS-8 LONGWOOD
DS-9 FRANCISCO
DS-10 HIGHLAND
DS-11 CASTRO
DS-12 FOURTH STREET
DS-13 NORMANDIE
DS-14 MENLO
DS-15 COMMONWEALTH
DS-16 TEXTILE
DS-17 IROLO
DS-18 HYDE PARK
DS-19 TRINITY
DS-20 PALMS
DS-21 VAN NUYS
DS-22 DEERING
DS-23 INDIANA
DS-24 RESEDA
DS-25 RIVERSIDE
DS-26 BELMONT
DS-27 CLOVIS
DS-28 SAWTELLE
DS-29 PALISADES
DS-30 EAGLE ROCK
DS-31
DS-32 WOODLAWN
DS-34 SANTEE
DS-35 N. HOLLYWOOD
DS-36 MARMION
DS-37
DS-38 HOBART
DS-39 EXPOSITION
DS-41 FIGUEROA
DS-42 HOPE NEW
DS-43 PICO
DS-44 VENICE
DS-45 WESTERN
DS-46 WILSHIRE
DS-47 IMPERIAL
DS-48 TUJUNGA
DS-49 COLDWATER
DS-50 EL SERENO
DS-51 ISLAND
DS-52 ARGYLE
DS-53 CRENSHAW
DS-54 LOS FELIZ
DS-55 BEVERLY
DS-56
DS-57 LANKERSHIM
DS-58 WESTCHESTER
DS-59 MAR VISTA
DS-60 WOODLEY
DS-61 MARIPOSA
DS-62 FULTON
DS-63
DS-64 KESTER
DS-65 SYLVIA
DS-66
DS-67 TUXFORD
DS-68 GRANADA
DS-69 LEMONA
DS-71 CHANDLER
DS-72 SUNLAND
DS-73
DS-74 ALABAMA
DS-75 BEACON
DS-77 PLATT
DS-78 LINDLEY
DS-79 VENTURA
DS-80 BROMONT
DS-81 SHERMAN
DS-82 TAMPA
DS-83 GAVIOTA
DS-84
DS-85 KRAFT
DS-86 BALBOA
DS-87 Y2007
DS-88 DE SOTO
DS-89 GAFFEY
DS-90 CALVIN
DS-91 VANALDEN
DS-92 BLACKHAWK
DS-93 GLASSELL PARK
DS-94 LA JOLLA
DS-95
DS-96 FENTON
DS-98 ARCH
DS-99 MONTE GRANDE
DS-100 VANOWEN
DS-101 PACOIMA
DS-102 ROSCOE
DS-103 FRANKLIN
DS-105 VERMONT
DS-107 GLENOAKS
DS-111 VICKSBURG
DS-114 CRYSTAL SPRINGS
DS-115 SUMMIT
DS-119 FORD
DS-121 TERMINAL ISLAND
DS-122 ROYAL
DS-123 HARBOR CITY
DS-124 GLENAIRE
DS-127 WHITE OAK
DS-129 WOODLAND HILLS
DS-130 ENCINO
DS-131 SEPULVEDA
DS-133 PANORAMA
DS-135 CHURCH
DS-136 VICTORY
DS-137 TALBERT
DS-138 PLUMMER
DS-139 RUNWAY
DS-140 HAZELTINE
DS-142 MISSION
DS-143 DENVER
DS-144 FACTORY
DS-145