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Telluride Power Company, Nunn Hydroelectric Plant, Southeast side of Provo River, 300 feet West of US Route 189, Orem, Utah County, UT

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Telluride Power Company, Nunn Hydroelectric Plant, Southeast side of Provo River, 300 feet West of US Route 189, Orem, Utah County, UT

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Significance: This plant represents L.L. Nunn's first major hydroelectric generating facility outside of Colorado. At the time of completion (1898), it generated three-phase AC power at a pressure of 40,000 volts, the highest voltage of any commercial electric power system in the world. It was replaced by Olmsted Hydroelectric Plant, see HAER UT-5.
Survey number: HAER UT-2
Building/structure dates: 1897-1898 Initial Construction

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1969 - 1980
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Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Nunn, L L
Nunn, P N
Utah Power & Light Company
Corona, Julie, transmitter
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Orem (Utah)40.29690, -111.69465
Google Map of 40.2968979, -111.6946475
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Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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