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TACOMA CITY Light's Cushman Dam No. 1 forms a beautiful lake nearly
ten miles long in the rugged foothills of the Olympic Mountains. More than
500 acres have been provided by the public utility for a State Park along the
eastern lake front. Lake Cushman Development Company has developed a
maior vacation home and recreation complex overlooking the lake.
LAND OR WATER access is available to Hood Canal Recreation Park
adjacent to the Cushman powerhouse at Potlatch; it's open to the public, no
charge.
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One of America's earliest publicly owned hydro-elec-
tric developments is located west of Hood Canal on the
North Fork of Skokomish River.
• Tacoma City Light's Cushman Plants 1 and 2 generate
electric power from waters falling from Lake Cushma
and Lake May, reservoirs created by two concrete arch
dams.
Cushman, the upper dam, creates a reservoir from
which water is diverted through a tunnel feet in diam-
eter and 540 feet long to Plant 1, where two generators
witch a capacity of 43,200 kilowatts have an average annual
output of 127,000,000 kilowatt hours.
After passing through this plant, the water is
charged into Lake May, formed by the lower dam, through
a po er tunnel two and a half miles long. Lake May is
two miles long.
From there the water drops to Plant 2 where it goes
through the generators a second time before being dis-
charged into Hood Canal. It flows into the plant through
three 10 /2-foot steel pentstocks 1,350 feet long. Three
generators have a capacity of 81,000 kilowatts and aver-
age annual output of 233,000,000 kilowatt hours.
The water travels at tremendous speed. Its average
flow into Plant 1 is 745 cubic feet a second. It goes through
the tunnel to Lake May at cubic feet a second.
Cushman Dam and Plant 1 were built in 1926 at a cost
of $4,255,658. The second dam and plant were constructed
in 1930 for $8,228,806.
Cushman No. 1 dam is I,III feet long, 235 feet high,
eight feet wide at the top and 50 feet at the bottom. Lake
Cushman which it forms has an area of 4,200 acres at
maximum water elevation, 23 miles of shoreline, and im-
pounds 453,350 acre feet of water. It drains an area of
94 square miles.
Cushman No. 2 dam is 460 feet long, 175 feet high,
eight feet wide at the top and 40 at the bottom. Lake May
behind it has an area of 150 acres, four and a half miles
of shoreline, and impounds 8,000 acre feet of water.
Visitors will be escorted through Cushman No. 2 pow-
er plant, on Highway 101 at the southern end of Potlatch,
individually or in small groups from 8 a.m. to p.m.
Reservations must be made in advance for large groups
through the Tacoma Utilities Department in Tacoma.
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We Have Rods and ;hades
For Boats and Trailers
RODS WALLPAPER SHADES
129 Railroad Avenue
FABRICS CARPETING
Shelton, Wa. 98584
7th & Railroad
Pool
TV
Phones
Phone 426-4468
"Prosser Hay Ride"
Western Band
Playing Throughout
The Fair
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Bands
Pie Eating Contest
Husband Cuffing Contest
Entertainment
4-H Awards And Style Show
Square Dance
Motorcycle Races
Egg Catching Contest
Women's Hail
Pounding Contest
Women's Rolling Pin Throw
Carnival
Concessions
Plane Rides
Beef And Dairy Show
Horse Show
Dog Show
Greased Pole Climb
Salmon Barbeque
Horseshoe Tournament
Teenage Dance
Pig And Chicken Scrambles
THIS YEAR
Two Deys-- aturday & Sundey
NRA Approved-
Outstanding l%ents and Performers
SHOWS!l! GAMES!i! PRIZES!i! FUN !l!
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