High Mountain Dams in Bonneville Unit, Weir Lake Dam, Kamas
High Mountain Dams in Bonneville Unit, Weir Lake Dam, Kamas, Summit County, UT. Surveyed as HAER UTAH,22-KAM.V,1-O-, with a 572-word written history.
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“Weir, Fire 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-O- survey. Machine-read text.
Surveyed by the federal HAER program as HAER UTAH,22-KAM.V,1-O- · the record runs 572 words · one of 48 surveyed structures published for this county.
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Weir, Fire 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 Weir Lake Dam is the longest of two masonry retention structures in the Bonneville Unit. Essentially unaltered and well preserved, it is one of the most technically significant dams in the unit. Inventoried by: Clayton Fraser and James Jurale Fraserdesign Loveland, Colorado October 17, High Mountain Dams in Bonneville Unit, Weir Lake Dam (North Fork No. 2 Lake Dam) HAER No. UT-41-O (Page 2)
Historical Information
In July the National Forest Service grant a special use permit to the Provo Reservoir Company of Provo, Utah, to construct a dam and impound water on Weir Lake for irrigation. The second smallest among the dammed lakes at the headwaters of the Provo River drainage, Weir Lake was an irregularly shaped natural body of water with a steeply sloped and timbered, rocky shoreline. The small stream that drained Long Lake flowed Weir through a marsh at its northern end. The Weir Lake Dam was completed in and, like the Fire Lake Dam that was built at the same time, featured a grouted fieldstone masonry upstream face and loose hand-placed rock on the sloped downstream side. The outlet gate was a standard Hardesty cast iron slide gate secured by a 12-gauge pipe embedded in concrete.
A concrete spillway on the dam's eastern edge is situated on quartzite ledge rock. Dam, outlet and spillway all remain in good condition. It is proposed that the existing spillway be lowered and the outlet pipe blocked to lower the lake to its natural level.
Architectural Information
Dam length: 248 feet Dam height: 15 feet Dam width: 27 feet Construct: Grouted fieldstone dam with hand-placed stone riprap on downstream side Lake size: acres; acre-foot maximum capacity; 15 vertical foot maximum drawdown Outlet: 18" concrete box culvert with gate; concrete spillway BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION "Preliminary Engineering Report: Stabilization of High Mountain Lakes, Provo River Drainage, National Forest Service Report, pages Specifications for North Fork Lake No. 1 under Application Provo Reservoir Company, Lost Lake No. 2 Supplemental File, W-CNFSO, Federal building, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Weir 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. High Mountain Dams in Bonneville Unit, Weir Lake Dam (North Fork No. 2 Lake Dam) HAER No. UT-41-O (Page 3) MAXIMA n PFSAWCOUJM OfSlCjINAU PAM SCALE: l"-
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-O-. United States federal work, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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