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Show f RED FLEET DAM, containing 2,291,000 cubic yards of fill, finally final-ly reached the crest last week after over two years of hauling and compacting soil. Photo s taken from tri out take works side Red Fleet Dam has toppingout ceremony Red Fleet Dam topped out last week as Brown and Root Western, Inc., contractor con-tractor for the Bureau of Reclamation project ten miles northeast of Vernal, began to reduce its work force and equipment numbers. according to Ed Williams, superintendent for Brown and Root, the 130 foot level height of the dam above the stream bed was reached Wednesday Wednes-day night of last week. "All we lack now is to fill around the spillway," said Williams. We still have rip-rap to place, a little cement work, dressing down the reservoir reser-voir area and place some guardrails. "We plan to be finished with the small stuff by December 1 and out of the area by December 15," Williams stated. Larry Rhoades, project engineer for the Bureau of Reclamation, said they were working towards catching the spring spr-ing run-off in the reservoir. "We have some instrumentation to be done before the reservoir will be ready for water," Rhoades stated. Brown and Root is grading the reservoir reser-voir area, finishing a boat ramp and road and building the aquaduct line looking to the spillway side on the downstream face of t h. a " I The dam narrows to 30 teet at the top for a roadway. f from the dam to the edge of the reser- voir. Another contract will be let for the L pumping station and aquaduct t0 Ashley Creek, probably next year if all goes well, said Rhoades. In an official statement made by Bill Plummer, Regional Director of the Bureau of Reclamation, he said that even though the dam is finished it will be mid-1980 before all the electrical and mechanical work is done. . ftvrr?3j SPILLWAY CHANNEL concrete work rs nearing the compWon ' stage at Red Fleet Dam Earth will be compacted around tr spillway as the finishing touch for the S26 millen project. i J |