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The Scofield Project arose out of the remnants of various private dams, which either failed, or never lived up to expectations. The new Scofield Dam and Reservoir replaced the rapidly deteriorating, old Scofield Dam, built by the Price River Water Conservation District. The Scofield Project eventually irrigated area lands originally to be served by Mammoth Dam, and later by the defunct Gooseberry Project. Mammoth Dam failed in 1917, before its completion. While the Scofield Project evolved out of the Gooseberry Project, the need to protect vital rail lines from flood damage during the Second World War was a key to construction of Scofield. Where World War II suspended construction on most Reclamation projects, the fear that the existing Scofield Dam might fail and cause millions of dollars of damage and disrupt transportation, influenced the Federal government to go ahead with the Scofield Project.
The Scofield Project arose out of the remnants of various private dams, which either failed, or never lived up to expectations. The new Scofield Dam and Reservoir replaced the rapidly deteriorating, old Scofield Dam, built by the Price River Water Conservation District. The Scofield Project eventually irrigated area lands originally to be served by Mammoth Dam, and later by the defunct Gooseberry Project. Mammoth Dam failed in 1917, before its completion. While the Scofield Project evolved out of the Gooseberry Project, the need to protect vital rail lines from flood damage during the Second World War was a key to construction of Scofield. Where World War II suspended construction on most Reclamation projects, the fear that the existing Scofield Dam might fail and cause millions of dollars of damage and disrupt transportation, influenced the Federal government to go ahead with the Scofield Project.
Scofield Project
E. A. Stene (author)
1995
24 pages
Report
No indication
English
Engineering Index Backfile | 1944
Discussion of “Scofield on Irrigation Water”
| ASCE | 2021