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Hidden Water - Salt Lake County Water Drainages
  • Drainage: big cottonwood (and)
  • Place name: stairs station
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    • Forebay at Storm Mt.


    • BC025
    • Forebay at Storm Mt.

    • Rocky Mountain Power uses its non-consumptive water right at Storm Mountain to divert most of the water out of Big Cottonwood Creek. The forebay stores water and helps generate 156 pounds of static pressure for the Stairs Station about one mile...

    • Canyon; dam; diversion; reservoir
    • Storm Mt. spillway


    • BC026
    • Storm Mt. spillway

    • A four cfs flow from springs provides the only water in Big Cottonwood Creek just below the Storm Mountain forebay. The diverted water isn't repatriated into the creek until it reaches the Salt Lake City Department of Public Utilities' water...

    • Canyon
    • Stairs Station


    • BC027
    • Stairs Station

    • Built in 1895 the Stairs Station hydropower plant once supplied all of Salt Lake City's power needs and was the third largest power plant in the nation. The brick is so soft a fingernail can scratch it.

    • Canyon; architecture
    • Penstock


    • BC028
    • Penstock

    • A four-foot diameter penstock 3000-feet long brings water from the Storm Mountain forebay into the Stairs Station. Water pressure in the penstock forces the water to move slightly uphill into the turbine.

    • Canyon; pipe
    • Stairs Station control room


    • BC029
    • Stairs Station control room

    • Brian Smith can control the water level of the reservoir at the Storm Mountain forebay by raising or lowering the turbine at Stairs Station, maintaining the water level at Storm Mountain to between three and four feet.

    • Canyon
    • Stairs Station generator


    • BC030
    • Stairs Station generator

    • Water passing through the turbine turns the generator. Depending upon water flow, the generator can produce between 1.2 and 1.3 megawatts of power.

    • Canyon
    • Circuit breakers


    • BC031
    • Circuit breakers

    • Stairs Station is a substation. Circuit breakers control power moving down or up canyon.

    • Canyon
    • Granite forebay


    • BC032
    • Granite forebay

    • Once it exits the Stairs Station power plant, water moves through the tailrace into the Granite forebay.

    • Canyon; dam; diversion; headgate
    • Stairs Station spillway


    • BC033
    • Stairs Station spillway

    • The Granite forebay just below Stairs Station maintains the diversion of water from Big Cottonwood Creek to generate power at the Granite Plant at the canyon mouth. Approximately .7 cfs of water is released into the creek, adding to the 4 cfs flow...

    • Canyon; dam; diversion; headgate

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