The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-10
ADDITIONAL HYDROSITES ANNOUNCED Alabama Power Company Starts Huge Cherokee
 Bluffs Project TO BE COMPLETED
 WITHIN 3 YEARS Will Provide Total Of 450,000 Horsepower
 On Tallapoosa MINIMIZE DANGER
 OF RIVER FLOODS Year Round Navigation To Gulf Expected To Result From
 Development
TO BE COMPLETED
 WITHIN 3 YEARS
MINIMIZE DANGER
 OF RIVER FLOODS

| Announcement of an expendi- ture of approximately $39, 100000 by the Alabama Power company on six hydro-electric dams on the Tal- lapoosa river which will bring the stream to the highest known point in the production of power, Was made Monday by E. A. Yates, gen. eral manager of the organization.
 Construction work, which in- cludes what is known as the Chero- kee Bluffs dam, already started, will be completed within three years from the time it was begun. Upon completion of Cherokee Bluffs, work will commence upon the pro- jeet most distant and intervening dams will be finished in turn, Mir. Yates said.
 Licenses for this program were granted last week by the federal power commission in keeping with that body's policy of placing all of the develop ment of water power resources in one locality in the hands of a single com pany, insuring the most efficient ultili- zation of the power. it was stated.
 45O,OO0 Horsepower
 Hc anu tH6 DDSE Lower Tallassee projects now owned by the Alabama Power company, will provide a total of 450.000 horsepower installation on the Tallapoosa when 1 all are developed to the naximum ca i paeity. In addition tc the power yield 1 it is pointed out that upon completion 1 of the program danger from floods in l the Alabama river will be minimized and that the stream flow of its tribu. | tary. the Tallapoosa, will be so regu- lated that navigation to a depth of four feet from Montgomery to the gulf will be made possible practically the year round.
 The Tallapoosa is a river having small capacity of ''run-of-river" power but large storage possibilities, it is said, which makes it possible to impound sufficient water in the flood seasons to operate the plants during the dry period and carry the lead of the "run-of- of-river'' plans on the COosa river, thus reduc- ing, in measure, the need for standby steam power. The same. water will be set to work again and again, turning the wheels of each dam as it passes from one to another, it is stated.
 Comparable To Niagra
 Cherokee Bluffs, largest of the pro- jects, will be one of the biggest power producers in the world. The 150-foot dam will back the Tallapoosa into a lake having an area of 39,20O acres and containing 60 billion cubic feet of storage water available for power pro- duction. Initial installation here will be two units of 45.000 horsepower each These units will be among the largest on the globe, being comparable in size with the giant generators at Niagra Falls.
 Work has been in active progress at Cherokee Bluffs for a year. The camp and railroad, together with the first cofferdam, are now practically com plete. A high-tension transmission line from Upper Tallassee has been con nected to the dam site and power pumps have forced the cofferdam dry to per init excavation work for the foundation.