High Mountain Dams in Bonneville Unit, Island Lake Dam, Wasatch National Forest, Kamas, Summit County, UT
Summary
Significance: The Island Lake Dam is one of several lakes in the upper Provo River drainage impounded by the Provo Reservoir Company for irrigation water storage in the 1930s. The small dam has the sloped profile and steel outlet mechanism that characterizes it as representative of earth-fill water retention structures in the Bonneville Unit of the Central Utah Project.
Survey number: HAER UT-41-E
Building/structure dates: 1932 Initial Construction
Tags
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Provo Reservoir Company
Union Reservoir Company
National Forest Service
Location
Kamas (Utah), 40.64301, -111.28074
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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