Best Digital Travel Pictures
And Photos Of Arizona Electric Power Plants

Childs Arizona Electric Power Plant

George DeLange
June 12, 2002

This page contains the best digital photos and pictures that I have taken of the Childs Electric Power Generating Station near Strawberry, Arizona. We left the Best Western Motel in Winslow at about 7:30 AM and drove to Strawberry. From there we went West a few miles and transfered from our bus to vans.

Our APS drivers then took us to Childs and Irving Power Plants a few miles away. It was a hot and dry trip during a drought in Arizona. We even had to have permits to go into the forest area since all of the area was closed due to the extreme fire danger conditions.

Childs and Irving are listed as a National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark. The generating stations were built in 1909 and generate 4.2 megawatts of power. The water to power the plants comes from Fossil Springs and then travels by a steel and concrete flume a distance of five miles where it enters the single turbine at Irving. It is moving at about 43 cubic feet per second. It travels for about five more miles through a flume to a man made lake called Stehr Lake. It then travels through a penstock and drops about 1,100 feet and roars through the two turbines at Childs before entering the Verde River.

Please br sure to check out the Irving page to get the whole story.

Please enjoy and feel free to e-mail any suggestions or comments that might improve the page.

Unloading From The Bus
West Of Strawberry
Getting On The Vans
Driving On A very Bumpy Road!
Looking Carefully
Along The Side Of the Canyon
A Red Line Is The Flume That
Provides Water To Run The Plant
From Fossil Creek
At The Bottom Of The Valley
We Can See Irving Below!
Childs Is Further West!
We Drive About 20 Minutes Past Irving
And We Start To See a Lake Area
Sure Enough It Is Stehr Lake
Which Holds Water For Childs!
We Drop Down Toward The South
The Verde River And Childs Are Below!
Almost There!Pulling Into The Entrance At Childs
Our Tour GroupTransformer & Transmission Yard
Turbine Building On Right
TurbineGeorge & Turbine
Control PanelThe Lake That Holds Water For Childs
Is So Pretty That
We Decide To Stop!
The Flume From Fossil Creek
Feeds The Lake
Into This Area
Then Out HereAnother View Where It Comes Out
The Water Flows HereThen From Here Into the Creek
That Enters The Lake

Irving
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