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 |
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| 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 Group | Transformer & Transmission Yard Turbine Building On Right |
| Turbine | George & Turbine |
| Control Panel | The 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 Here | Another View Where It Comes Out |
| The Water Flows Here | Then From Here Into the Creek That Enters The Lake |