High Mountain Dams in Bonneville Unit, Teapot Lake Dam, Kamas, Summit County, UT
Summary
Significance: Teapot Lake is one of several lakes in the upper Provo River drainage impounded by the Provo Reservoir Company using previously granted water rights (1909, in this instance). The dam and secondary dike have the sloped profiles and steel outlet mechanism that characterize them as representative earth-fill water retention structures in the Bonneville Unit of the Central Utah Project.
Survey number: HAER UT-41-K
Building/structure dates: 1935 Initial Construction
Tags
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Provo Reservoir Company
Union Reservoir Company
Location
Kamas (Utah), 40.64301, -111.28074
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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