Edmonston Pumping Plant is a pumping station

Pumping station

Pumping stations are facilities including pumps and equipment for pumping fluids from one place to another. They are used for a variety of infrastructure systems, such as the supply of water to canals, the drainage of low-lying land, and the removal of sewage to processing sites.A pumping station...

 near the south end of the California Aqueduct

California Aqueduct

The Governor Edmund G. Brown California Aqueduct is a system of canals, tunnels, and pipelines that conveys water collected from the Sierra Nevada Mountains and valleys of Northern- and Central California to Southern California. The Department of Water Resources operates and maintains the...

. It raises the water 1,926 feet (600 m) to cross the Tehachapi Mountains

Tehachapi Mountains

The Tehachapi Mountains , regionally also called The Tehachapis, are a mountain range in the Transverse Ranges system of California in the Western United States...

. The Edmonston Pumping Station requires so much power that several power lines off of Path 15 and Path 26 are needed to ensure proper operation of the pumps, and is the most powerful water lifting system in the world.

Characteristics

• Number of units: 14 (two galleries of 7)
• Normal static head: 1,970 ft
• Total flow at design head: 315 ft³/s (9 m³/s)
• Motor rating: 80,000 hp (60MW)
• Flow at design head: 315 ft³/s (32,000 m³/s)
• Total flow at design head: 4410 ft³/s (450,000 m³/h)
• Total Motor rating: 1,120,000 hp (835 MW)

Sources

• http://www.nautiloid.net/peanut/dwrvisit/main.html
• http://wwwswpao.water.ca.gov/publications/bulletin/95/view/tables/ti-3.htm