Show Starvation Dam Starts Storing Water Supply Bulkhead gates closed Tuesday on the first water storage in Starvation Reservoir Reservoir Reser Reser- voir first dam completed in the Central Central Cen Cen- Utah Projects Project's Bonneville Unit announced announced an an- Lynn S S. S Ludlow CUP district manager Beginning Tuesday afternoon water stored in the reservoir will be used to supplement inadequate irrigation supplies supplies sup sup- plies in the Duchesne area and to replace replace re reo place water diverted for use on the rapidly rapidly expanding expanding Wasatch Front STARVATION Reservoir is on Strawberry Strawberry Strawberry Straw Straw- berry River about three miles upstream from Duchesne Most of the storage water however will come from Duchesne Duch Duch- esne cane River Water diverted from the Duchesne by bythe bythe bythe the recently completed Knight Diversion Dam flows through a concrete pipeline and the finished mile mile long long Starvation Tunnel to the reservoir When full the reservoir will store more than acre feet acre feet of water and will have a surface surface surface sur sur- face area of acres THE FOOT high Starvation Dam Darn has bas been ah abut about ut two and one one half half years in the making Clearing operations at atthe atthe atthe the damsite were started in March of 1967 Construction was suspended during during dur duro ing the past tw two winter seasons seasons The dam consists consists' of cubic yards of fill material weighing more more than tons The 2920 foot 2920 foot long dam has has' a a base width of about feet and tapers to 30 feet at the top on which a a graveled road has been constructed A lined CONCRETE spillway has been constructed on the right abutment of the dam with a design capacity of second feet second feet to divert water from the reservoir reservoir re reo to accommodate flood flows The outlet works through which water normally normally nor nor- mally flows are on the left leet abutment and have a 2310 second second foot foot capacity A three three foot foot thick layer of soil soil cement cement has been placed on the upstream face of the dam to protect it from erosion by wave action Starvation Dam was constructed by Goodfellow Brothers Inc of Wenatchee Washington under contract with the c cyst cost st of of A SECTION of U. U S S. S Highway 40 40 and the existing bridge over Strawberry River will be inundated by bythe the reservoir necessitated necessitated by a relocation of I about miles of the highway and construction of Starvation Bridge to span an arm of the reservoir The 1634 foot 1634 foot bridge is Utah's longest over water Excellent recreational and fishing facilities facilities fa fa- ar are planned at the reservoir by the National Park Service A concrete boat ramp Is being built and camping and picnicking facilities will be provided provid provid- ed cd near the near the reservoir The recreational features will be bo administered by the State Division of Parks and Recreation |