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Category: Photos -> Photographs  
Donor: James Cross
Location: Collections -> Oversized Document Room -> Scrapbook Boxes  
Accession Number: 2005.243.159  
Name of Object: slide of construction of Ludington pumped storage project  
Description: 5-14-1971 road grader at work- it didn't take long to make large holes in the road constructed in the fall of 1970. the bridge over US31 is in the far distance-the skyline is the project lake embankment. the trucks are capable of hauling 33 to 36 yards of weighing 35 tons- they will make 2.6 trips per hour. there will be 4.5 million yards of clay hauled. Mr. Jack DeSort of the Walsh-Canonic Co. is the earth moving project engineer. He has worked on the Montana-Hungry Horse Dam, Arizona & Glen Canyon Dam, Albee Falls hydro project - LPSC Box slide # 14-118  
Height: 2 inches
Width: 2 inches  
Year Manufactured: 0000