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PLAINTIFF'S EXHIBIT
28 **THE DENVER POST Tues., June 21,1960
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Real Groundbreaking Rifes
There was nothing: slight about the ground breaking for a $24.5 million addition to the Publio Service Co.'s Cherokee steam electric generating station, E. 62d ave. and Franklin st. The heart of the new construction, a huge steam-powered
turbine-generator, will have enough generating capacity to serve average electrical needs of a community of 300,000. That's Gov. McNichols at the controls of the shovel with Robert T. Person, FSC president, smiling approval at left.
43-ROCKT MOUNTAIN NEWS- Denver 1, Colo., Friday, June 24, 1960
$24.5 MILLION GENERATOR
Work Begins on New PSC Unit
Ground was broken Monday units now in service at the sta The boiler which supplies
for a $24.5 million addition to tion can put out a total of 210,- steam to the turbine weighs
the Public Service Co.'s Chero 000 kilowatts.
more than seven million pounds,
kee steam electric generating At peak operation, the boiler reportedly the biggest of its station at E. 62nd Ave. and in the new unit will bum al kind in the region.
Franklin St., Adams County. most 63 tons of coal an hour. Ultimate goal for the station
; Taking part in the ceremonies Coal will be carried into the is six generating units with a
| were Gov. Steve McNichols and unit on a 3,300-foot conveyor total capacity of nearly one mil
Robert T. Person, Public Serv belt, part of which is under lion kilowatts, Person said.
ice Co., president.
ground.
The Cherokee station, which
Upon completion in mid- A mechanical ash collector began operation in August,
1962, the new steam-powered will guard against air polution, 1957, is the newest of the com
turbine generator will have a Person said.
pany's 15 generating plants.
generating capacity of 150,-
000 kilowatts--enough elec
tricity to serve the average
needs of a city of 300,000.
The two steam-generating
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