splash dam

About 30 splash dams, used for log driving, were built on the river.

However, while a splash dam is operational, the mills below it lack the water the need to run.

When the timber rafting had completed, the splash dams would be torn down.

The splash dam was equipped with a chute to allow water and logs to escape.

In addition, a decaying splash dam exists near the Old Roach site as well.

However, timber raftinf required an adequate water flow; splash dams were constructed to ensure this.

The splash dams on the Quesnel and Adams were dynamited and removed.

Water releases from multiple splash dams on tributaries were also often combined to maximize the number of logs floated throughout a given watershed.

The splash dam and Stuck Creek flume were also surveyed and artifacts noted.

Splash dams were typically constructed of logs or boards, which formed cribs that were then filled with stones and earth.

Splash dams were timber crib dams used to help float logs downstream in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

A splash dam was a temporary wooden dam used to raise the water level in streams to float logs downstream to sawmills.

English used a series of splash dams to move the logs down Little River to a mill on the outskirts of Knoxville.

Lewis' firm built a splash dam on Bowman Creek to help float logs downstream in 1891, then used the lake to cut ice for refrigeration.

Pennsylvania has the most, with eight places, but there are also places in Kentucky, Utah, and Idaho named "Splash Dam".

The settlement of Home Camp, Union Township, was once a thriving logging town with saw mills, splash dams and boarding houses for lumbermen.

Mosquito Creek, which drains much of the southern part of Quehanna Wild Area, had at least nine splash dams in its watershed.

One such splash dam was located at the mouth of Spruce Flats along Middle Prong, just above Walker Valley.

The Pennsylvania General Assembly passed a law on March 28, 1871 allowing splash dam construction and clearing of creeks to allow loose logs to float better.

The first logging operations in the Smokies, which began in the 1880s, used splash dam systems to move logs from the mountains to lumber mills in nearby cities.

A splash dam had to be sited on a section of the stream that allowed as large a body of water to accumulate behind the dam as possible.

Splash dams, greased chutes, railroad landings, railroad branch lines and steam donkey operations were among the strategies utilized to exploit the watershed's resources of timber.

All that remains today in this ghost town are a few foundations, and the remains of a wooden flume and splash dam located along nearby Stuck Creek.

To control the passage of logs downstream, the company built a large splash dam below Smith's Ferry on the North Fork of the Payette River.

Construction work also extended to the stream below the splash dam, which had to be cleared of obstacles and often had its banks cleared for some distance above the waterline.