Visited on 5/20/2018, Jeff and our two chocolate Labradors, Summer and Skye joined me on a business trip to give Drinking Water examinations in the Central Valley of California. On our 18th Anniversary, Jeff and I loaded up the dogs and traveled back down the hill from our camping spot at Shaver Lake to Kerckhoff Reservoir to find a nice spot to camp overnight. Kerckhoff Dam is a concrete arch dam on the San Joaquin River in Fresno County, California, about 10 miles southwest of Big Creek. The 114 foot tall dam is a run-of-the-river facility impounding 4,252 acre⋅feet of water and is the primary feature of Pacific Gas and Electric's Kerckhoff hydroelectric project. The dam and its 160-acre reservoir located at 995 feet above sea level provide water for the Kerckhoff Powerhouses No. 1 and No. 2. Powerhouse No. 1 has three Francis turbines producing a maximum of 38 megawatts (MW) and Powerhouse No. 2 has a single Francis turbine rated at 155 MW for a total project capacity of 193 MW. An annual 579.1 million KWh of electricity are generated here.
Completed in 1920, the
dam and Powerhouse No. 1 were the first to utilize the San Joaquin River for
hydroelectricity. The second powerhouse was added in 1983.
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