The Big Creek Hydroelectric Project is an extensive hydroelectric power scheme on the upper San Joaquin River system, in the Sierra Nevada of central California. The project is owned and operated by S
Henry E. Huntington, wealthy financier from Southern California who was largely responsible for the project's construction.
The San Joaquin & Eastern Railroad at Huntington Lake, c. 1918
Shaver Lake, completed in 1927, stores excess runoff from Huntington Lake to increase power generation.
Mammoth Pool Dam (far right), completed in 1959, is – at 411 ft (125 m) high – the tallest dam of the Big Creek Project.
John Samuel Eastwood
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John Samuel Eastwood was an American engineer who built the world's first reinforced concrete multiple-arch dam on bedrock foundation at Hume Lake, California, in 1908, and was one of California's pio
Big Creek Hydroelectric Project
…Water in the World". The primary purpose of the project was to provide electric power for the fast-growing city of Los Angeles. California engineer John S. Eastwood was the principal designer of the system, which was initially funded and built by Henry E. Huntington's Pacific Light and Power Company (PL&P…
John Samuel Eastwood
Mountain Dell Dam
Hume Lake Dam, completed 1909, displaying its reinforced concrete 50-foot (15 m)-span arches resting on inclined vertical buttresses
Lake Hodges Dam, 1918