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Show SOUTH FORK DAM IS PUNNED TO BE OF GREAT STRENGTH The going out of the Hatehtow-n dam has caused numerous inquiries at the Standard office as to whether or not the South Fork reservoir Is being built on the same plan as the dam in southern Utah. The Hatchtown dam only has a core-wall a foot or two above the bed of the river. The balance of the dam is built of earth. The plans of the South Fork reservoir eonteru plate a double core-wall rising from the solid bedrock to the top of the dam There has been a controversy between be-tween tho engineering department of Ogden City and the reservoir company com-pany over the double core-wall mad" of cement, the city engineers claiming claim-ing the core-wall was over-strong and unnecessary Even Mr Fortler. the government engineer, suggested that the core-wall was not necessary for a three to one earth dam. but Mes3re. Bostaph & Roche, engineers for the Ogden River I Reservoir company, insisted in-sisted on a core-wall of solid concrete con-crete reaching the entire distance from the bottom to the top and from end to end on the sides So strong has been the representations against the plans of Messrs., Bostaph & Roche that even Mr Glasmann, president of the Ogden River Reservoir company, thought that it was advisable to cut down the strength of the concrete core-wall, which has been one of the particular objections of the engineering engineer-ing department of the city. The going out of the Hatchtown dam, which is one of the dams built under the directions of the state engineer engi-neer of the-state of Utah. undOUDt edl) will cause a general feeling In favor of the concrete core-wall again and may result In the engineers of the city and the reservoir company getting together on tho strength of the core-wall of the South Fork dam Mr Glasmann today said: "1 am Tamlliar with both the Hatch-town Hatch-town dam and the Piute dam. They are both on the same river and the Piute dam, which is at Marysvale, about fifteen miles from Richfield, Utah, is also a dirt dam. but much stronger than the Hatchtown d;m and has an immense spill way, and I am inclined to believe that the Piute dam will not go out because the splll-waj splll-waj will let the surplus water go but. should the water rush over the Piute dam. 1 fear It would go out also because be-cause of the wash of the water on the earth formation. The Piute dam has a core-wall from the bottom Ol the bedrock just a few feet above the river bed Mr Fortler thought such a dam might even do for the South Fork canyon project but our companj always has held out for the solid concrete center-core wall.' |
