High Mountain Dams in Upalco Unit, White Miller Lake Dam, Ashley National Forest, 6.9 miles North of Swift Creek Campground, Mountain Home

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White Miller Lake is one of several naturAl high mountain lakes dammed by the Farmers Irrigation Company in the and to store water for irrigation. The dam is a representative example of small scale, unsophisticated construction in the Upalco Unit of the Central Utah Project. Inventoried by: Clayton Fraser and James Jurale Fraserdesign Loveland, Colorado October 19, High Mountain Dams in Upalco Unit, White Miller Lake Dam HAER No. UT-42-O (Page 2)

Historical Information

On September 4, the National Forest Service issued a special use permit to the Farmers Irrigation Company for "constructing and maintaining a dam and storing water for irrigation purposes" on White Miller Lake in the Swift Creek drainage. A small -- approximately 10 acres ~ shallow lake, White Miller receives flow from Farmers Lake and drains in Deer Lake, two other Farmers Irrigation Company reservoirs. The foot dam built across the natural outlet on the south point of the lake was a rudimentary structure consisting of stacked fieldstones and sod, with a cribbed log outlet weir. Only three feet high, the dam is the least substantial among those in the Upalco Unit. In it was abandoned. Today, dam and outlet are deteriorated and overgrown.

The lake's size has been reduced by encroachment from the peat meadow which surrounds it. It is proposed that the original outlet works be removed and the lake returned to its natural level.

Architectural Information

Dam length: 105 feet Dam height: 30 feet Dam width: 2 feet Construct: Stacked fieldstone rockfill dam Lake size: 1O.0 acres; 77 acre-foot maximum capacity; 1.7 vertical foot maximum drawdown Outlet: 18" concrete box culvert with gate; concrete spillway BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION "Preliminary Engineering Report: Stabilization of High Mountain Lakes, Upalco Unit, National Forest Service Report, William F. Gettlcman, "Report on the Lakes and Reservoir of the Headwaters of the Uintah, Whiterocks and Lakefork Rivers, Uintah Project, Utah: Feb. page 23. White Miller Lake Reservoir File Roosevelt District Ranger Office, Ashley National Forest, Roosevelt, Utah Field inspection by Robert Righter, July 31, For additional information, see Irrigation Canals in the Uinta Basin, HAER No. UT-30.

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