CHANDLER POWERPLANT
Chandler Powerplant
| Plant Contact: | Gerald Kelso ,
Area Manager Upper Columbia Area Office |
| Telephone Numbers: | Phone: (509) 588-3317 Fax: (509) 454-5611 |
| E-Mail Address: | gkelso@pn.usbr.gov |
| Reclamation Region: | Pacific Northwest |
| NERC Region: | Western Electricity Coordinating Council, Northwest Power Pool Area |
| PMA Service Area: | Bonneville Power Administration |
| Project Authorization: | The Congress authorized the Yakima Project, Kennewick Division, on June 12, 1948, under Public Law 629, 80th Congress (62 Stat. 382). |
| Project Purposes: | The Yakima Project provides irrigation water for a comparatively narrow strip of fertile land that extends for 175 miles on both sides of the Yakima River in south-central Washington. The irrigable lands presently being served total about 465,000 acres. The Kennewick Division is a combined irrigation and power development. It includes the 12,000-kilowatt Chandler Powerplant and 19,171 acres of irrigable land. |
| Plant Facts: | The Chandler Powerplant includes two 6.0 megawatt, 4160 volt hydropower generators, and two 2,600 horsepower pumps which operate from a 10.6 mile canal, diverting up to 1,500 cubic feet per second of water from the Prosser Diversion Dam. |
| Plant Purpose: | The powerplant has not historically supplied project power for irrigation pumping, but it is planned to install electric pumps to replace the existing hydraulically powered pumps at the powerplant. |
| Plant History: | The powerplant was constructed in 1956 as part of the Yakima Project. |
| Present Activities: | Normal operations |
| Future Planned Activities: | None |
| Special Issues: | None |
| River: | Chandler Power Canal |
| Plant Type: | Conventional |
| Powerhouse Type: | Above Ground |
| Turbine Type: | Francis |
| Original Nameplate Capacity: | 12,000 kW |
| Installed Capacity: | 12,000 kW |
| Year of Initial Operation: | 1956 |
| Age: | 49 years |
| Net Generation: (FY 2005) |
31,485,240 kWh |
| Rated Head: | 118 feet |
| Plant Factor: (FY 2005) |
30.35 percent |
| Remotely Operated: | No |
| Production Mode: | Intermediate |
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