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The first commercially significant hydroelectric plant in California, designed and built by Gustavus Olivio Newman, went into service here in 1888. It utilized the flow of the Riverside Water Company Canal to produce about 225 kilowatts of power for the arc light illumination of downtown streets in Riverside and Colton. The plant was destroyed by fire in 1915.
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