Show nam FAULTY IS ih fagu NAM omaker the price irrigation comi comi pan receives little mercy at the hands handi of state engineer georg P F mcgonagle in the report filed with the tile governor of causes and conditions contributing to the recent break in the dam and the consequent destruction of railroad mine and private 3 summaries lesof of the report ere published publia hed in salt lake tuesday the report of the state engineer bears out the contentions of many local parties who have never hid had much faith in the company compan and havo hire scored its method of bundling lund ling the project some of hose those who own water rights under tho the ditch hope that the viana management emont may be taken away from thosa those now in control and that a strong company of men really interested in this community may be put in charge bitter denunciation of those in charge and of tho the wa those depending on the wt ter have been treated is frequent un im tho the streets of price no definite plans for united action of those aider the ditch to protect protea their holdings and their rights have been formulated as the company has not yet et given out any of 16 it future plans john Y smith told tod thy the news advocate that it would be necessary for the state to assist if the project were put on its feet since the state has refused matters are up in the air relative to the report of state engineer mcgonagle the herald republican tuesday said FOUR CAUSES FOR BREAK inadequate construction and deliberate operation contrary to all precedent and all engineering practice were responsible for the collapse ot the mammoth dam ir the price river canyon sunday june 2 24 and the consequent devastation of valuable properties to talling hundreds of thou thousands bandi of dollars of los loss alcora ai cori ing to a report filed with governor bamberger Lr besterda by george 11 mcgonagle Gonagle Uc state engineer it WAS stated stata that there wan was absolutely ro evidence to md ind cato ali thit t the tile dam darn had been tampered mth bi outside parties after i careful of the dis aster and its c husos on oil tho the ground sir mr mcgonagle reached the ion that fur causes were mere con tribu tory to the bre breaking along of the dam first that the tile flume portion of tnt spillway was improperly improper ii and gnadt constructed second that the honz ortal reinforcement of the core wall all bad been stopped 12 feet aboe the base instead of bein beina carried to the top of the core third that the bond between the older section of the and the ali file e foot raise built last yar ras nut griat it should ha haze a been a fact indicated by the shearing off oil of tle vail wall five feet from the top before any other portion of the dam failed fourth that the tunage ment permitted the level of tha tile water ater in the reservoir to anso r I 1 so to within 10 inches of the top of tho the core contrary to precedent and correct engineering ngi WATER LEVEL TOO HIGH if it the water level had bad been maintained five fire feet below the top of tho the core wall mr le states the dam still have been b e en intact at the time of the collapse and resultant inundation there wag was no unusual flood condition the level of the le lese senoir moir being stationary or if it not altogether stationary falling failing slightly according to superintendent christensen no water haq passing through the flume mr sen hid bad nailed three six inch boards across the upper end of the flume forming a bulkhead eighteen elch teen inches high and the water level 1 was our inches below the bulkhead sun lay june mr mcgon agles report recites watchman hall left the dam at 11 am a m and went to lunch at the bunkhouse about 1000 feet away on his return two hours later the water had broken through the earth dyke alongside the temporary flume had filled the intervening space between the dyke and the core wall and a section of the core about five feet high and 30 feet in length bad had fallen outward allowing the water to pour through the breach onto the earth fill 1111 forming the lower half halt of the dam As the earth washed away leaving the core unsupported or t sections of the core continued to fall until 75 per cent of the urn dam bad had gone out and the reservoir vaa kas emptied MR M CONIUS REPORT Rela relative tift to the construction tion of the dam mr air said he found fouti d the tile following to by be the tile fact in the tile case cage illo concrete wall was raised five feet in the fall of WIG tho the earth fil fill was about five ft f et below the top of the core wall all on the up stream side and ta feet bacow ow the top lengan about 14 1411 feet the unusual i top width being chused by the fact that the company expected to raise the dam about 50 feet to a total beigh beights th of feet the core till vl contina Cont inu d 1 on page 1 U MAMMOTH AMOT jr DAM mi air I 1 continued from p w WM s located on the aia axis of 0 N t the junction of 0 the q slope and the top of the 1 arth dyke hid hd been beert en ere acted ct up from themore to it the top ot thi this dyke dy be inches hi higher hiher her than th the arm ore the water in the dio dim feet 10 inches below the to core wll wall A wooden flume had bad bee strutted ted extending from a to a rectangular botch in 13 a Q t the 1 i e flume b beine eing two feet a deep 10 feet wide and so 80 length this flume being inte carry hood flood waters fron from tl 0 to the core wall and vertical drop of six feet feets 81 into a temporary wooden i butted again against tit the lower side core this flume was lay laid the earth dyke without 0 heads or cutoff walls |