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Show i : . ST. GEORGE CAMP NEWS l y Del Mar Nelson :', The largest Erosion Control structure in this area is now nearing completion. According -to J. C. Tolton, camp superin-tendent, superin-tendent, it will be finished by ; February 1, 1935. This structure is a flood control con-trol dam on Santa Clara creek. Thedam is of the combined arch anr$v-4vity type. It is 100 feet Id y' shty-five feet thick at tiff and twenty feet thick on topr' he spillway is sixty feet wide d twenty-three feet above the of the creek. The wall - on eiUer side of the spill is fifteen feet high making a total of thirt:'-eight feet in height. Below. Be-low. li spill is a stilling pool with a. baffle1' wall four feed high; below ibe stilling pool is a protecting pro-tecting spron which extends tweiity-?ve -feet down stream and is,,thr.e. Mat, thick, built of rock maso-iry. 'set. Ifl ..concrete mortar. Bith faces of th? dam .are of I rock ... masonry .about.,, four feet " thick-with the. , space , .betjveen filled with rock ' and gravel, .the gravel being washed with, pum-is into the space between the rock's. The whole structure contalrs some 45,000 cubic yards of material.. ma-terial.. It. is located one-half mile above the Shivwits Indian reservation farm. Just below the Junction of the wash and Santa Clara creek and just below the point where the waters of Santa Clara creek are diverted into . the canal that supplies Ivins and Santa Clara with irrigation wa-" wa-" ter. It was partially completed '& by the camp last winter; and last summer it did yoiman service in protecting the Santa Clara-Ivins canal from a flood which would have washed out the diversion works and done great damage to irrigation works and crops be-' be-' low. op The dam was designed by L. M. Winsor and Leo A. Snow with Regional Engineer J. P. H Martin as chief consulting engines engin-es eer. It was designed primarily as a flood control dam and not as an irrigation project, although it does protect previously exist- ing irrigation systems. Basketball games lined up for (. the near future include a game Jy' with the Cedar CCC camp team .ysi n Friday, January 11, and one ,M with Dixie High Saturday, Janu-ar' Janu-ar' 12, as a preliminary to the " game between Dixie college and : " cf.iM Mister. A ve will be held at the St. Gwji camp It wln bQ jn :jS 018 fonn ,a home coming dance K ceK-bratiiig;10 completion of the ) construction of a new dining i room additio., Truck3 for trans. porting the ladies to the camp will be furnished and will leave from the Dixie College at 8:30 and 9:30. Music will be furnished fur-nished by the camp orchestra in charge of Glenn Webb. Ray Linerman and Ward Woodruff will be in charge of refreshments. |