- City:
- Epping, Springbrook, ND
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation, Infrastructure and Utilities, Lakes and Ponds, Dams
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA), Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)
- Completed:
- 1936
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
The Epping-Springbrook Dam was the “largest earthfill dam in the State. Constructed as an FERA and WPA project, it was completed in 1936. This bulwark on STONY CREEK has created a lake covering 180 acres, which, including a strip of land around the water, will be made into a State park devoted entirely to recreation.”
The exact location and current status of the project is unknown to Living New Deal, though we believe the dam to be no longer extant.
Source notes
"North Dakota: A Guide to the Northern Prairie State" by Federal Writers Project, 1938 (page 259).Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on March 28, 2015.
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Scott Heller
The Epping/Springbrook Dam is still operating and is a Williams County park. https://www.williamsnd.com/epping-springbrook-dam/