High Mountain Dams in Bonneville Unit, Marjorie Lake Dam, Kamas

High Mountain Dams in Bonneville Unit, Marjorie Lake Dam, Kamas, Summit County, UT. Surveyed as HAER UTAH,22-KAM.V,1-H-, with a 513-word written history.

From the record

“Typical earth-fill structures, the dams on Marjorie and Duck lakes were constructed using similar specifications, including the stipulation for "carefully hand-laid rock faces." They are representative of a more aesthetic dam engineering philosophy which resulted from National Forest Service multi-use goals.”
Written record, HAER UTAH,22-KAM.V,1-H- survey. Machine-read text.

Surveyed by the federal HAER program as HAER UTAH,22-KAM.V,1-H- · the record runs 513 words · one of 48 surveyed structures published for this county.

Sources: the survey record at the Library of Congress

Significance

383 words

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Historical Information
Architectural Information

Source document Quoted word for word from HAER UTAH,22-KAM.V,1-H-. Not written, edited or summarised by this site.

Typical earth-fill structures, the dams on Marjorie and Duck lakes were constructed using similar specifications, including the stipulation for "carefully hand-laid rock faces." They are representative of a more aesthetic dam engineering philosophy which resulted from National Forest Service multi-use goals. Marjorie and Duck lakes are significant as the last reservoirs created on the upper Provo River drainage prior to Federal involvement in Utah's irrigation dam construction. Inventoried by: Clayton Fraser and James Jurale Fraserdesign Loveland, Colorado October 18, High Mountain Dams in Bonneville Unit, Marjorie Lake Dam (North Fork No. 1 Lake Dam) HAER No, UT-41-H (Page 2)
Historical Information
In the Timpanogos Irrigation Company built medium-scale dams across the outlets of Marjorie and Duck lakes to impound water for irrigation. The Marjorie Lake Dam, a 940-foot structure with an obtuse V-shape, , more than doubled the surface area of the shallow lake. It was the longest of the two built that year by Timpanogos. The dam is composed of a clay center core with compacted earth over and hand-placed stone riprap on the sloped upstream and downstream faces. The outlet works consist of a 15" diameter reinforced concrete pipe with an inclined 15" wide Hardesty Model 115 cast iron headgate. A concrete spillway with a 2-foot freeboard on the north end of the dam controls lake overflow.
It is proposed that the dam be lowered, breached and reconfigured to return the lake to its natural level.
Architectural Information
Dam length: 940 feet Dam height: 25 feet Dam width: 13 feet Construct: Earth fill dam with stone riprap facing Lake size: acres; 205 acre-foot maximum capacity; 21 vertical foot maximum drawdown Outlet: 15" diameter pipe with inclined gate; concrete spillway BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION "Preliminary Engineering Report: Stabilization of High Mountain Lakes, Provo River Drainage," National Forest Service Report, page 40. Specifications for Dam an Spillway for Marjorie Lake Reservoir under Application No. A-12225 Timpanogos Irrigation company File W-CNFSO, Federal Building, Salt Lake City, Utah. Marjorie 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 Bonneville Unit, Marjorie Lake Dam (North Fork No. 1 Lake Dam HAER No. UT-41-H (Page 3) MAXIMUM DAM SCftLE: Oo'

In context

Kamas, Utah	The place record: every map, photograph and survey of this town.
Summit County, Utah	98 topographic sheets across the county.
Library of Congress record	The original filed report as the survey filed it.

Also surveyed in Kamas

15 records

The federal surveyors worked through Kamas building by building. These are the other structures they measured and filed a report on, longest report first.

Structure	Survey	Report
High Mountain Dams in Bonneville Unit	HAER UTAH,22-KAM.V,1-N-	601 words
High Mountain Dams in Bonneville Unit	HAER UTAH,22-KAM.V,1-A-	594 words
High Mountain Dams in Bonneville Unit	HAER UTAH,22-KAM.V,1-D-	589 words
High Mountain Dams in Bonneville Unit	HAER UTAH,22-KAM.V,1-L-	582 words
High Mountain Dams in Bonneville Unit	HAER UTAH,22-KAM.V,1-O-	572 words
High Mountain Dams in Bonneville Unit	HAER UTAH,22-KAM.V,1-M-	560 words
High Mountain Dams in Bonneville Unit	HAER UTAH,22-KAM.V,1-G-	542 words
High Mountain Dams in Bonneville Unit	HAER UTAH,22-KAM.V,1-C-	539 words
High Mountain Dams in Bonneville Unit	HAER UTAH,22-KAM.V,1-E-	512 words
High Mountain Dams in Bonneville Unit	HAER UTAH,22-KAM.V,1-J-	511 words
High Mountain Dams in Bonneville Unit	HAER UTAH,22-KAM.V,1-B-	506 words
High Mountain Dams in Bonneville Unit	HAER UTAH,22-KAM.V,1-F-	486 words
High Mountain Dams in Bonneville Unit	HAER UTAH,22-KAM.V,1-I-	475 words
High Mountain Dams in Bonneville Unit	HAER UTAH,22-KAM.V,1-K-	448 words
High Mountain Dams in Bonneville Unit	HAER UTAH,22-KAM.V,1-	294 words

Provenance

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