California's Gold Specials EP40 Big Creek

Huell travels to the mountains above Fresno to tour “Big Creek”’ which was America’s first large-scale integrated hydroelectric project, begun in 1911. This massive engineering marvel consists of 23 generating units in nine powerhouses with a generating capacity of approximately 1,000 megawatts, and six major reservoirs with a storage capacity of more than 560,000 acre-feet. Not only do we get a behind the scenes tour, we’ll also meet and hear some great stories from a one of the first families that worked at this remote Edison outpost.

Keywords: #Big Creek #Edison #Fresno #Henry Huntington #hydroelectric #John Samuel Eastwood #power plant #Rick Frampton #Roger Taylor #Sierra Nevada #Sierra Nevada mountains #Southern California Edison

2009