Category:Olive Switching Station

English: The Olive Switching Station was a switching station (substation without transformer) located on San Fernando Road in Sylmar – on the grounds of Sylmar Conversion Station (south side of San Fernando Road, just west of the intersection of Olden Street and San Fernando Road) – within the northeastern San Fernando Valley, in the City of Los Angeles, California.

It was the oldest such station of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. It was a key element in the initial power development along the route of the Los Angeles Aqueduct. Built in 1916 and 1917, at the mid-point in the 115 kilovolt (kV) transmission line from San Francisquito Power Plant No. 1 to the central receiving station in the city (now Receiving Station A), the station ensured the reliability of the system by allowing a section of any circuit on which trouble developed to be cut out without affecting service.
The Olive Switching Station remained long time vital to the operation of the San Francisquito power plants No. 1 and No. 2 as well as the facilities that bring water from the Owens Valley and Mono Basin to Los Angeles.
- Images: HABS—Historic American Buildings Survey in Los Angeles, California.[1]
The station was damaged in the 1971 Sylmar Earthquake, and repaired. In the 1994 Northridge Earthquake, walls have experienced major damage, and the second level was shored up on the western half of the building. At the end of 1994 the station still existed[2], but has apparently been demolished at some point later. As of 2017, a new building seems to be located on nearly the same place (time of construction and function unknown, maybe similar).

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