George DeLange
June 12, 2002
This page contains the best digital photos and pictures that I have taken of the Irving 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 Childs page to get the whole story. Please enjoy and feel free to e-mail any suggestions or comments that might improve the page. |
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| Coming Back From Childs We Pass The Flume Pipe | And Transmission Line |
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| We Arrive At The Meeting Room | Lunch Is Inside!! |
| There's A Lot To See And Talk About | Even A Garden! |
| More Food! | Scrapbooks Of Old Pictures Of The Area! |
| Workers Homes | Nice Shade Tree! |
| Walking To The Turbine House Notice The Water Pipe Bringing Water To The Turbine! | Almost There! |
| The Turbine | Another View |
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| The Water Exits The Turbine Here | Always Time To Answer Questions |
| Transformers | Close Up |
| Control Panel | And A Computer |
| The Interrupter On The Front Makes AC Current | Quite An Honor |
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| The Creek South Of Irving | Going Home |