• Seminoe Dam - Leo WY
    Casper-Alcova Project, Wyoming - The Casper-Alcova Project is being developed initially to irrigate 35,000 acres of land in the vicinity of Casper Wyoming. The more important features are the Seminoe Dam and power plant, the Alcova Dam and the canal system. The revenues from the power plant are expected to repay a large portion of the cost of the project. the Seminoe Dam is of the concrete arch type, with a volume of about 161,000 cubic yards and a maximum height of 161 feet. The storage capacity of the reservoir will be 1,000,000 acre feet. The Alcova Dam on the...
  • Seminoe Road - Leo WY
    Civil Works Administration projects in Wyoming included construction of what Living New Deal believes to be Seminoe Road: "In Carbon County one project required more than three thousand pounds of dynamite, but the road was essential, and in this case it was a new road; it was the road into the Seminoe district, the only road leading to the PWA worksite of the dam under construction." Living New Deal believes this to be the road known as Seminoe Road.