High Mountain Dams in Bonneville Unit, Fire Lake Dam, Kamas
High Mountain Dams in Bonneville Unit, Fire Lake Dam, Kamas, Summit County, UT. Surveyed as HAER UTAH,22-KAM.V,1-D-, with a 589-word written history.
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“Fire, Weir and Pot lakes, all built in by the Provo Reservoir Company, are indicative of the renewed local interest in reservoir-building sparked by the drought of They are historically significant as among the last examples of private reservoir construction in the Provo River drainage.”
Written record, HAER UTAH,22-KAM.V,1-D- survey. Machine-read text.
Surveyed by the federal HAER program as HAER UTAH,22-KAM.V,1-D- · the record runs 589 words · one of 48 surveyed structures published for this county.
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Fire, Weir and Pot lakes, all built in by the Provo Reservoir Company, are indicative of the renewed local interest in reservoir-building sparked by the drought of They are historically significant as among the last examples of private reservoir construction in the Provo River drainage. The Fire Lake Dam is one of two (the other, Weir Lake Dam) masonry retention structures in the Bonneville Unit. Essentially unaltered and well-preserved, it is one of the most picturesque among those in the unit and is one of the most technologically important dams. Inventoried by: Clayton Fraser and James Jurale Fraserdesign Loveland, Colorado October 17, High Mountain Dams in Bonneville Unit, Fire Lake Dam (North Fork No. 5 Lake Dam) HAER No. UT-41-D (Page 2)
Historical Information
The Provo Reservoir Company of Provo, Utah, received permission from the Forest Service to impound water on Fire and Island lakes in September and to build dams on the two in The fifth smallest among the dammed natural lakes in the Provo River drainage, Fire was one of the most scenic, with a steep, rocky shoreline dotted by conifers. Like the Weir Lake Dam, also built by the Provo Reservoir Company in the Fire Lake Dam featured a grouted fieldstone masonry upstream face, and loose, hand-placed rock on the sloped downstream side. The structure is picturesquely placed on smooth sloping glaciated bedrock with its downstream toe almost on the lip on a ledge.
The outlet consisted of a reinforced concrete box culvert; the outlet gate was a standard Hardesty cast iron sliding gate secured by a 12-gauge pipe embedded in concrete (since replaced with a Calco cast iron slide). A double-gate concrete spillway on the dam's west edge is situated on quartzite ledge rock. It is proposed that a section of the dam be demolished to drain the lake to its natural level.
Architectural Information
Dam length: 240 feet Dam height: 12 feet Dam width: 3 feet Construct: Grouted fieldstone masonry dam with stone riprap on downstream face Lake size: acres; 286 acre-foot maximum capacity; 10 vertical foot maximum drawdown Outlet: Gated pipe; double-gated concrete spillway BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION "Preliminary Engineering Report: Stabilization of High Mountain Lakes, Provo River Drainage," National Forest Service Report, p. 20. Specification for North Fork No. 1 under application No. Provo Reservoir Company, Lost Lake No. 2 Supplemental File, W-CNFSO, Federal Building, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Fire Lake Reservoir File Kamas Ranger Station, Wasatch National Forest, Kamas, Utah Field inspection by Clayton Fraser and Robert Righter, July 24, For additional information, see Irrigation Canals in the Uinta Basin, HAER No. UT-30. High Mountain Dams in Bonneviile Unit, Island Lake Dam HAER No. UT-41-E (Page 3) MAXIMUM - PPiAUJDOWW OfSl^jiNAU DAM SCALE: |"
The federal surveyors worked through Kamas building by building. These are the other structures
they measured and filed a report on, longest report first.
Written history. Quoted verbatim from HAER UTAH,22-KAM.V,1-D-. United States federal work, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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