Morning view of the check dam, Camp 9 bridge, and the penstock – image 1

The Stanislaus was dammed upstream of Camp 9 and water diverted into a forebay on top of the mountain in this view. A penstock (pipe) came down to turbines and when water was released, it generated power and it made created raftable flows in the river – once the morning release filled up the check dam. This is the first in a series of three images showing how this worked,