Santee-Cooper Navigation and Hydro-Electric Project
Collection — Reel: 1
Identifier: Mss-0212
The material on the reel is from the files of the Public Works Administration (PWA) pertaining to the Santee-Cooper Power Project. The reel includes a copy of Act 887 which established the South Carolina Public Service Authority for the Project in 1934 and technical charts which contain supporting data pertaining to the construction of the Project. A portion of the reel is devoted to R.M. Jefferies, Sr., and W.J. McLeod, Jr.'s defense of their costs while serving as General Counsel to the Authority. They include vouchers and expense accounts as well as letters from over thirty lawyers who support the fairness of Jefferies and McLeod's bill considering the amount of time involved in handling some of the legal intricacies of the case. These included injunctions by the Carolina Power and Light Company, the Broad River Power Company, and the South Carolina Power Company who were attempting to restrain the state from constructing and operating Santee-Cooper. The reel concludes with a portion of the injunction case, which was heard before the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of South Carolina.
The Santee-Cooper Navigation and Hydro-Electric Project to improve navigation on and provide hydro-electric power from the Santee and Cooper Rivers was authorized by the South Carolina legislature in 1934. Federal approval for the Project was granted in 1935, but construction did not begin until 1939 because of a lawsuit against the Project by a number of private companies. Construction of the Pinopolis and Santee dams was completed in 1941 and power generation began in 1942. In 1949, after another court battle, Santee-Cooper entered into an agreement with the Central Electric Power Cooperative, Inc. to provide power for the Cooperative, which would build the necessary transmission lines. Santee-Cooper obtained ownership of these lines in 1985. Fossil fuel generating stations constructed in 1951, 1966, 1972, 1977 and 1981 and a nuclear plant, in cooperation with South Carolina Electric & Gas, opened in 1984.
1 item(s) (1 reel microfilm, 16 mm)
English
The material on the microfilm is on backwards; one must begin at the end of the reel. Some of the material is upside down and some is sideways.
National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC, USA.
Accessioned as 78-2.
Microfilm, National Archives and Records Administration.
Part of the Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives Repository