- City:
- Kinnear, WY
- Site Type:
- Water Supply, Infrastructure and Utilities, Dams
- New Deal Agencies:
- Conservation and Public Lands, Bureau of Reclamation (BuRec)
- Started:
- 1936
- Completed:
- 1938
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
“Riverton Project, Wyoming – Bull Lake Dam, an 800,000 cubic yard earth and rock fill structure is under contract and is scheduled for completion in January 1938. Some canal and lateral work will probably be done in 1937. H. D. Comstock is superintendent.”
“The earthen dam was constructed between 1936 and 1938 by the United States Bureau of Reclamation with a height of 81 feet. It impounds Bull Lake Creek for irrigation storage and flood control, as part of the Riverton Unit of the extensive, multi-state Pick–Sloan Missouri Basin Program. The dam is owned by the Bureau and is operated by the local Midvale Irrigation District.”
Source notes
Western Construction News Jan. 1937 WikipediaSite originally submitted by Andrew Laverdiere on May 18, 2017.
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