Show STATE ENGINEER INSPECTS YANKEE RESERVOIR DAM state water engineer L 11 humpherys in company with representatives presenta tives from the city and fields made an inspection of the dam at the yankee on sunday after noon of this week lie ile had read articles printed recently in this paper relative to the dam and came down to make a personal inspection of t after going over it carefully lie he stated that in his opinion the dam was perfectly sate safe but recommended that certain things be done to mako make it more secure in the future the inspection by the forest engineer with others made earlier in the month was just after the big storm and at that time the dirt on oil the dam appeared to be saturated with water small test holes dug at that time in e top of the dam soon had bad water waiter standing in them and water was seeping into the well where the outlet valve is located on sunday after a week or so of dry weather none of these signs were apparent to those who were there also the level of the water in the reservoir had dropped two or three feet which was another thing that made it look safer As a result of this last investigation the creek that was diverted before was turned back into the reservoir but a flow of 0 several second feet of water is still being turned out tor for use some of the recommendations made by engineer humpherys was wag that a spillway be made in the dam to handle water after the reservoir was filled to capacity and to dig deeper test holes down into the dam to see tor for sure whether it is saturated with water he also stated that although specifications had been drawn up tor for the dam when it was constructed they had not been lived up to in the construction and that these detects defects must be corrected when informed that it was feasible to bring the east fork of the see second lett left hand creek into the leser voir he recommended that on certain years yeara this be done it if the dam was built up to specifications so that it would hold the ithe water |