High Mountain Dams in Bonneville Unit, Wall Lake Dam, Kamas, Summit County, UT. Surveyed as HAER UTAH,22-KAM.V,1-M-, with a 560-word written history.
“Wall Lake is the deepest body of water to be reservoired in the Bonnevilie Unit of the Central Utah Project.”
Written record, HAER UTAH,22-KAM.V,1-M- survey. Machine-read text.
Surveyed by the federal HAER program as HAER UTAH,22-KAM.V,1-M- · the record runs 560 words · one of 48 surveyed structures published for this county.
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2,3 miles north of Trial Lake Campground, Wasatch National Forest Kamas vicinity, Summit County, Utah UTM: Quad: Mirror Fork Date of Construction: Builder/Designer: Provo Reservoir Company and Sego Irrigation Company, Provo, Utah Wasatch Irrigation Company and Timpanogos Irrigation Company, Heber City, Utah
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Wall Lake is the deepest body of water to be reservoired in the Bonnevilie Unit of the Central Utah Project. Its dam, built conservatively by four of the principal regional irrigation companies, is the oldest man-made structure to reservoir a natural lake in the upper Provo River drainage, along with the dams on Trial and Washington lakes. Picturesquely placed and well- preserved, the dam and outlet works are representative of medium-scale earth-fill construction in the unit. Wall Lake is one of the more significant of the Provo drainage retention structures. Inventoried by: Clayton Fraser and James Jurale Fraserdesign Loveland, Colorado October 16, High Mountain Dams in Bonneville Unit, Wall Lake Dam HAER No. UT-41-M (Page 2)
Historical Information
In May the National Forest Service issued a special use permit to the Provo Reservoir Company and the Sego Irrigation Company of Provo, Utah, and the Wasatch and Timpanogos irrigation companies of Heber City to dam several lakes at the headwaters of the North Fork of the Provo River for irrigation. Of the lakes approved for modification -- Crystal, Washington, Trial and Star Wall was the highest feet), deepest feet) and northernmost. It was characterized by an irregular shoreline of talus slopes and scattered conifers. Dams on Washington, Trial and Wall lakes were completed in The Wall Lake Dam, an obtuse V-shaped, 615-foot structure, was made of a compacted clay core, covered with earth and rock waste fill and faced with rock riprap on both upstream and downstream slopes.
The outlet consists of a 20" diameter riveted steel pipe, with an inclined slide headgate at the pipe inlet and a 20" Ludlow gate valve at the downstream toe. Both dam and outlet works remain, although longitudinal cracks have been observed on the dam. Major reconstruction is proposed.
Architectural Information
Dam length: 615 feet Dam height: 35 feet Dam width: 16 feet Construct: Clay core earth fill dam with stone riprap facing Lake size: acres; acre-foot maximum capacity; 35 vertical foot maximum drawdown Outlet: 20" steel pipe with gate; 20' x 6' stone and concrete spillway BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION "Preliminary Engineering Report: Stabilization of High Mountain Lakes, Provo River Drainage," National Forest Service Report, page 62. Wall Lake reservoir File Kamas Ranger Station, Wasatch National Forest, Kamas, Utah. Field inspection by Clayton Fraser, July 21, For additional information, see Irrigation Canals in the Uinta Basin, HAER No. UT-30. High Mountain Dams in Bonneville Unit, Wall Lake Dam HAER No. UT-41-M (Page 3) MAXIMUM PP 0PO*> p DRAWDOWN OP>IC,iNAL. DAM 5^AL i l"= &oo'
| 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. |
The federal surveyors worked through Kamas building by building. These are the other structures they measured and filed a report on, longest report first.
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