WATER-POWERS OF ALABAMA. 



water to the month of Little Cahaba. This will produce 732 

 net H. P., with storage. The incidental storage of such a dam 

 would add largely to the amount and efficiency of the power. 

 A plant running only 12 hours per day, and storing the water 

 at night, could utilize 1,440 net H. P. 



This power site is at Centerville, Alabama, on the M. & O. 

 Railroad. 



Power No. 4. A 1 6- foot dam can be built at Shoal No. 9, 

 Station 69^, in Perry County, just below the Bibb County 

 line. This dam would back the water for 12 miles to Shoal No. 

 2, 4 T /2 miles below Centerville. A 1 6- loot head will produce 670 

 H. P. without storage, or 1,340 H. P. by storing the water at 

 night, and running only twelve hours per day. This dam site 

 is about 17 miles below Centerville by river. 



Power No. 5. A 1 5-foot dam at ''Blocks Cut-off/' near Sta- 

 tion 55, will back the water ten miles to the mouth of Taylor's 

 Creek, and will produce 750 continuous, or 1,500 twelve-hour 

 horse power. 



Power No. 6. At Shoal No. 24, Station 50, there is a fall of 

 9 feet in less than half a mile. A 14- foot dam at foot of this 

 shoal, or a 5-foot dam at its head, and a short canal will develop 

 a head of 14 feet and realize 720 continuous, or 1,400 twelve- 

 hour H. P. 



This site is just above Burras Island, 8 or TO miles northeast 

 of Marion, Ala. 



Power No. 7. From Burras Island to Fikes Ferry there is a 

 fall of 22 feet in a distance of 7 miles, 20 feet of which could 

 probably be utilized by a dam at Fikes Ferry, producing I,TOO 

 continuous, or 2,200 twelve-hour H. P. Fikes Ferry is near 

 Marion, Ala. 



In making the above statement of powers that can be de- 

 veloped, it has been assumed that there are suitable banks for 

 dam sites. The system proposed, or some other system ap- 

 proximating to it, would not interfere with navigation improve- 

 ments, as locks could be constructed at the dams. 



