- City:
- Orleans, NE
- Site Type:
- Dams, Infrastructure and Utilities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Started:
- 1936
- Completed:
- 1937
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) conducted a massive dam on the John Lubeck farm southwest of Orleans, Nebraska. The farm is placed three miles west and four miles south of Orleans, per an article in The Orleans Enterprise. The dam was “350 feet long and 22 to 23 feet in height, measuring 110 feet at the base and 13 feet across at the top.” It was planned that the lake impounded by the dam would become a resort.
Per Google Maps, a lake called Lubeck Reservoir is impounded by a dam that generally fits the dimensions above. The structure is located about 1,700 feet west of F Road and 4,500 feet north of 706 Road, east of the railroad right-of-way. Numerous other lakes, impounded by smaller dams, dot the area.
Source notes
"Dam is Completed," The Orleans Enterprise, Oct. 1, 1937 (pg. 1): https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/740620429/
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on August 2, 2023.
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Marjorie (Lubeck) Ehrke
John Lubeck was my dad and I. Do remember bits and pieces about it being built. I was only 3years old, but I remember going on a homemade raft on the dam with my brothers. it always had a good amount of water in it for the cattle and was there a good many years and still is but has filled in with a lot of silt.