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Pathfinder Dam: National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark
By assent of ASCE’s Board of Direction, Wyoming’s Pathfinder Dam was designated a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark on July 16, 2021. Named for John C. Fremont, the “Pathfinder of the West,” Pathfinder Dam is the centerpiece of the North Platte Project. The project irrigates 335,000 acres of agricultural land in Wyoming and Nebraska. Pathfinder was the first large dam project undertaken by the United States Reclamation Service—later the Bureau of Reclamation. Its designers utilized the arch and crown-cantilever method of analysis in the development of its geometry. This innovative analysis methodology was the precursor to the trail load method widely used later. Pathfinder Dam was completed in 1909 and created the largest artificial impoundment of water in the US at that time. Its completion also established the Reclamation Service’s reputation as a premier dam design and construction organization.
Pathfinder Dam: National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark
By assent of ASCE’s Board of Direction, Wyoming’s Pathfinder Dam was designated a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark on July 16, 2021. Named for John C. Fremont, the “Pathfinder of the West,” Pathfinder Dam is the centerpiece of the North Platte Project. The project irrigates 335,000 acres of agricultural land in Wyoming and Nebraska. Pathfinder was the first large dam project undertaken by the United States Reclamation Service—later the Bureau of Reclamation. Its designers utilized the arch and crown-cantilever method of analysis in the development of its geometry. This innovative analysis methodology was the precursor to the trail load method widely used later. Pathfinder Dam was completed in 1909 and created the largest artificial impoundment of water in the US at that time. Its completion also established the Reclamation Service’s reputation as a premier dam design and construction organization.
Pathfinder Dam: National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark
Bedford, Cole (author) / Wiltshire, Richard (author)
World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2022 ; 2022 ; Atlanta, Georgia
2022-06-02
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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