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Show -5- 3. Description and Physical Data of Parker Power Plant: (a) Location: on the California side of the Colorado River immediately below Parker Dam. (b) Description: see Photograph, Plate 3. (c) Function: generate electricity for use by United States, Arizona, private corporations and M.W.D. for operation of the Colorado River Aqueduct Project. (d) Generators: power generated by 4 vertical hydraulic turbine generator units numbered Units 1, 2, 3 and 4, each with a capacity of 30,000 kw. Units No. 1 and No. 2 supply power at 161,000 volts to the transmission lines; and units No. 3 and No. 4 supply power at both 69,000 volts and 161,000 volts to the transmission lines. (e) Transmission Lines: power is transmitted from Parker Power Plant over 5 transmission lines, to wit: (1) A 161,000-volt transmission line, 136 miles long, to Phoenix, Arizona. (2) A 161,000-volt transmission line, 116 miles long, to the Gila pumping project near Yuma, Arizona. (3) A 69,000-volt transmission line 65 miles long to Bagdad, Arizona; (4) A 69,000-volt transmission line, 2 miles long, to the Gene Pumping Plant of M.W.D.; and (5) A 69,000-volt transmission line to a transformer station near Parker Power Plant, thence over a 33,000-volt transmission line, |
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Original book: [State of Arizona, complainant v. State of California, Palo Verde Irrigation District, Coachella Valley County Water District, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, City of Los Angeles, California, City of San Diego, California, and County of San Diego, California, defendants, United States of America, State of Nevada, State of New Mexico, State of Utah, interveners] : California exhibits. |