Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-11
UncasViAe Power Plant Nearly Completed

Inc million dollar power plant for the Eastern Connecticut Power Con- pany will be in operation within a msnth according 70 a statement issued H the contracting engineer. He st1tes that the detail work will bs completed in a few weeks end will than be turned ever to the Eastern Connecticut Power O.. whicn will probably ,ies'g ,acs g resident ensii-cc: and superintendent.
 The land was acquired and tho ac- enad construction work started in May, 13l1. The first job was to get the land rvady by filling ill and grading. This wns followed by the construction of a wharf and the dredging of channel from the main channel in the river to tho wharf. This channel Is about 700 feet in length and of good width and Is dredged to a depth of Is feet.
 The work was sub-let by the Hope Engineering company to the Fred T. Ley Go. of Springfield, Mass, the firm which constr ucted the big fabricating building at the Groton Iron works and have done much work at canton ments in the eastern states. T. A. Pearson was foreman of construction for the Ley company on this job.
 The other work Of the Fred T. Ley
  a power house, steel towers, the trans mission line, and several smaller bufld-' ings The Ley company completed it's work on Feb. % and the remainder Of the work will be finished by the Hope Engineering company.
 The power house is the principal building and is modern in every re- -pect- IL is built with a heavy con crete base: with brick walls, fancy stone trim for the window lodges and cap stones of doors and windows.
 The power house consists of a main building and gu annex. The annex contains four floors and the annex is known as the electrical bay. The main building is taller than the annex, but there are fewer floors in the main building.
 The dimensions Of the power house and annex arc 1T0 feet facing the river and running back to a depth of 70 feet. The roof or the power house is approximately 100 feet from the ground.
 The power houso contains four 900 horse power boilers, and will have two it00o kilowatt turbine-Criveu genfrl- tors. One is already installed and the other is en rorLa.
 These generators cr CvnamOes will
  i,rinary. md 10 GOO Eiiowatts aecoud- o.y. The electricity will be carried from these generators on two wires to Inc transformer house or sub-statiou as 4 is known. 10 the south and he"e The power will be jumped % a total of 5C,o00 volts
 One-half enc. o' this voltage, or 220oc volts, will lo4yo tha sub sta ton or two wires. r"o wins goes to a pole line leading to a city of Ne" London. and the other 'rira goes ont3 q. l.ue Of steel to1r'.- waving in i.cight from = feet 70 e4a feet run r!re northcrlr Cro--'r" tro Central Vermont tracks at the Iucasvi'la sta ton. thence to Hsuehtou'+ Cove 70 g tower standard located in tho we+sr: then again crosses thc Central Yer mont railroad at Camp Dewey and thence Go the river bank and across thr rivcr
 The v-i-r that croseoa rho river con- sIsts oC ono span or 1,201 feet.
 Fresh water for tha boilers and for arlrk.rE and domestic purposes is supplies D.. aiz driven wells on land back from jlc r've- TN" water is pumped from thesa 7vells by TWO purnps and stored .r 9 w0iar tank "' 5000 gallon. r1raritv. This tank i-
 
 That water ueoa for tho cordcueere ie taken from fuo river through a rUn- nel which is carried mGorgraupl from 'hc wharf passing through a screen, the~ce under tne oIildivc in q con 'rete tunnel and pumped into the COP densc-s. T. is discharged from the condensars through another concrete funnel which extends to the opposite side of the power house and thence SGcl: 10 inc river.
 A the rear Of the power house is coal elevator. constructed 1f con crete and corrugated iron An elab- orate system for handling coal will be in vogue when tho plant is in opar- ation.
 Tte elevator contains hoDpers at- tached 10 an endless chain, and these hopprrS pick up the cocl from Lhe bottom of the shaft and carry Inc roal to the tcp nf the building where 1. is dumped Into crgehcr This re- drces the ,umns of coal to a finer grade and 3 uniform grade After be ing crushed t is carried again in hop rcrs on d belt to buu!,crB where it is automatically weighed it Is ther dumped from inc scales thrcugl chuteg down 70 < bottom of tho building and into ine stoltcr hoppers From there it ls fed to the fires by an automatic stoler system
 Tho machinery in the coal eleva to, 'S operated by 2 dinly 'nginc burning kerosene oil, and the automatic feed