Show red creek dam recently F finished floating foundation type used i t red bed creek dam duchesne County first dam built on a floating foundation by the utah water and power board now Is completed and is storing water JAY R BINGHAM board d director made this announcement last week 1 not only Is this dam the first built on floating foundation by the board but it also is the largest in terms of earth fill mr bingham said 4 the darn dam is seven miles north of froitland fruitland Fruit land drilling down to feet deep failed to reach bed rock therefore it was necessary to d design the base wide enough to allow for settlement giving it a floating action pressure gauges and test wells were used to check the settlement MR MB BINGHAM reported that in course of construction the foundation sank live five feet as calculated this squeezed the water out of the base material consolidated it and made it more impervious an impervious core was used with various courses of other materials ranging to coarse gravel on the futol outside d in all cubic yards of embankment way was laid the dam is feet high and 1800 feet across the crest it will impound acre feet of water PETERSON construction co logan wax was awarded the construction contract oct 14 1950 1939 because of improvements in the de design 3 ign of the spillway sugg suggested est ed by the utah state university several changes were made these brought the construction 0 cost down from the bid figure of to an additional was spent tor for right of way end and other items |