LAKE COLERIDGE.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18461, 15 August 1925, Page 7

LAKE COLERIDGE.

♦ | PEAK loads high again. ] lor some weeks past. owing to the ; lender weather experienced, the de- | mauds for power from the Lake Cole- | rj, -'sic power-station gradually decreased. : but. with the return, of wintry condi- ; tions :he ligurrs have jumped up again. lo May 31st the demands" on the j power-he,u.-o were under 14/100 k.-w.. " ut Jwrjag she week ended June 7th ; a load o; 1 i.'JOO k.w. w;is recorded, and 1 on Juiy 12th and ]-!; h the highest maximum load recorded was experienced ■ "when, on bota d;iys. the generators re- ! sponded to a demand for 1J.210 k.w.. j 1,1 an _" v crioad of 2240 k.w. since then j the highest, maximum load was during i the week oil,led Julv 20ih. when IS.Si-b ' k.w. was recorded. j I*or the week ended August Oth. the • maximum load at the power-station; v, as ]„,220 k.w.. which was recorded ! between 11 a.m. and 11.30 a.m. last, j' Iriday. What the load would have) been between 4 p.m. and r< p.m. can ! be only conjectured, as it wiil be re- I called, that, there was a. breakdown j about. 2.30 o'clock on that afternoon, j At the Addington sub-station the maximum load last week was 10.980 k.w., ' which was recorded between 5.30 a.m. and !) a.m. The previous week the maximum leads were: At. the powerhouse, 12,370 k.w.. and at the Addington sub-station. .10,120 k.w. During the week ended the 9th inst. the lake level was at 3 670.35 ft (previous week, 1670.20 ft \ and the average inflow from the Harper river was 102.S cusecs (SO eusecs the previous week\