176 MULTIPLE PURPOSE RIVER DEVELOPMENT 



These, with a rated installed capacity of 489,700 kilowatts, consist 

 of the Mitchell, Jordan, and Lay dams on the Coosa, developing 

 approximately 233 feet of head, and the Thurlow, Yates, and 

 Martin dams on the Tallapoosa, whose rated generator capacities 

 are shown in Table 28. In addition to its hydroelectric capacity, 

 Alabama Power Company has 890,000 kilowatts of installed gen- 

 erator capacity in thermal plants in Alabama, at Gadsden and 

 Gorgas and one near Mobile. As of December 1955, the total rated 

 capacity of its system was 1,379,700 kilowatts existing, and approxi- 

 mately 321,250 kilowatts of steam electricity under construction. 



TABLE 28. Alabama Power Company's Existing Hydroelectric 

 Facilities on the Coosa-Tallapoosa Tributaries 

 of the Alabama River System 



Rated installed 

 Project Stream generator capacity (kw.) 



Lay Coosa 81,000 



Mitchell Coosa 72300 



Jordan Coosa 100,000 



Martin Tallapoosa 154,200 



Yates Tallapoosa 32,000 



Thurlow Tallapoosa 50,000 



Total hydroelectric capacity .... 489,700 



Source: Alabama Power Company, Application to the Federal Power Commis- 

 sion for a License for the Development of the Coosa River, Project 

 No. 2U6, Decemljer 1954. 



Alabama Power Company's application for a preliminary permit 

 contemplated development consisting of four dams, roughly corre- 

 sponding to the plans evolved by the Corps of Engineers, above the 

 company's existing plants on the Coosa, and an additional struc- 

 ture and powerhouse below the existing plants at Wetumpka, for 

 a total of from 240,000 to 360,000 kilowatts in river structures.^" 



" See Federal Power Commission, Order Issuing Preliminary Permit, In the 

 Matter of Alabama Power Company, Project No. 2146, 1954. Also compare 

 Coosa River Power Development, Hearings before the Committee on Public 

 Works, House of Representatives, 83rd Congress, 2nd Session, May 18, 1954, 

 p. 49; and "Providing for the Development of the Coosa River, Ala. and Ga. 

 [sic]," House Report No. 1682, 83rd Congress, 2nd Session, p. 3. 



