Reports Upon the Existing Water-power Situation at Niagara Falls: So Far as Concerns the Diversion of Water on the American SideU.S. Government Printing Office, 1906 - 28 pages |
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250 revolutions 3-phase 660 cubic feet American side amount of power amount of water Buffalo and Niagara capital stock Captain Kutz chapter company's construction contracts débris and ice direct-current discharge tunnel diversion of water draft tubes EARL WHEELER effective head Eighteenmile Creek electrical horsepower electrical power Erie Canal Falls Electric Light Falls Hydraulic Power Falls Power Company feet of water feet per second furnished Haircloth horse hydraulic basin installed intake canal INTERNATIONAL WATERWAYS COMMISSION investment July kilowatts laws Manufacturing Company maximum Niagara Falls Brewing Niagara Falls Electric Niagara Falls Hydraulic Niagara Falls Power Niagara Falls Water Niagara Gorge Railroad Niagara Power Company Niagara River Oneida Community Limited output penstocks permit Pittsburgh Reduction Company Power and Manufacturing power house power plant power tenants revolutions per minute Rogers Limited running at 250 Schoellkopf Secretary Secretary of War sluicing débris substantially switch board terminal station turbines volts water per second wheel pit York
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Page 16 - I have compared the preceding with the original law on file in this office, and do hereby certify that the same is a correct transcript therefrom, and of the whole of said original law.
Page 1 - ... and only to the amount now actually in use or contracted to be used in factories, the buildings for which are now in process of construction...
Page 6 - Its entire length to a width of 100 feet and to a depth and slope sufficient to carry at all times a maximum uniform depth of 14 feet of water.
Page 9 - ... the river above and beyond the influence of the island, the level of the water will be restored before reaching the dividing point, and the bad effect will not be entirely on the American side. But it is not likely any company can take water within a distance of three miles...
Page 16 - River for domestic, municipal, and sanitary purposes, and to develop power therefrom for its own use and to lease and sell to others to use for manufacturing, heating, lighting, and other business purposes, is hereby recognized, declared, and confirmed.
Page 5 - ... 0.101 cubic foot of water per second was required to develop 1 electrical horsepower at the switchboard. If this determination is correct, the development of 100.000 electrical horsepower, the nominal capacity of the plant, would require 10,100 cubic feet of water per second. This amount exceeds by 1,500 cubic feet the amount computed as necessary under the assumed efficiency of the turbines and the theoretical effective heads noted above.
Page 1 - Kutz's report1 of August 15, 1906, which referred to permits of the third kind, or those for transmitting electrical power from Canada into the United States to the aggregate amount of 160,000 horsepower. The report by Capt. Kutz now under consideration refers to permits of the first kind, or those for diverting water from the Niagara River on the American side to an aggregate amount not exceeding 15,600 cubic feet per second. The conditions prescribed in the law for this kind of permits are that...
Page 5 - Company, one of the power company's tenants, consists of 6 turbines, each rated 1,600 horse-power, and 2 centrifugal pumps, representing about 69 horse-power. The amount of water used by this company was determined by test made in 1904, using a current meter placed at various points in a given cross section of the paper mills headrace.
Page 5 - Co. are of the opinion that the use of water by the Water Works Co. for developing power to run their pumps is exempted from the prohibition of diversion on the ground that it Is indirectly used for domestic and sanitary purposes. 12. Deducting the amounts used by Its tenant companies, 825 cubic feet per second, from the maximum amount for which a permit can now be granted to any one individual, company, or corporation — that is, 8,600 cubic feet per second — there remains 7,775 cubic feet a...
Page 8 - Company there are a number of large manufacturing plants being operated at the city of Lockport by power produced from the surplus water of the canal spilled from the canal below the locks and used successively in the progress of the water down the channel of Eighteenmile Creek. The use of the water spilled from the lower level of the canal is not covered by any contract with the State of New York, and it is understood that the State of New York derives no revenue from it. Furthermore the State engineer...