Several of John Eastwood's original drawings for his proposed Big Creek plants still survive in Edison Company files. This drawing was prepared to show the relative strengths of, and quantities of materials required for, traditional gravity arch and rock filled dams, as compared with Eastwood's own innovative multiple arch dam design.
Southern California Edison Photographs and Negatives Story of Big Creek Southern California Edison Photographs and Negatives, Huntington Digital Library
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