Construction of the Pineview Dam and Ogden-Brigham Canal were completed in June 1937. The South Ogden Highline Canal and a distribution system consisting of 5.2 miles of concrete lined canal and a 35 mile pressure pipe system, were built during 1938-1941. Pineview Dam was enlarged to provide storage of 110,150 acre-feet as part of the Weber Basin Project. A full supply for irrigation can be furnished to 24,801 acres of land. The water supply has improved economic conditions in the area and has brought fertile land under cultivation.
Principal crops are peaches, apples, apricots, vegetables, sugar beets, small grains, corn, and hay.
Recreation and Fish and Wildlife Pineview Reservoir area is used extensively for camping, picnicking, swimming, boating, boat racing, water skiing, and fishing for trout, bass, and wall-eyed pike. Recreation facilities, greatly expanded under the Weber Basin Project development, are administered by the Forest Service. The number of public recreation visits in 1996 was 973,427. Flood Control Flood control regulations for Pineview Reservoir have been developed by the Bureau of Reclamation and approved and issued by the Corps of Engineers as a comprehensive plan for flood control operation of Weber Basin Reservoirs dated November 1966 and a subsequent report dated July 1971. The regulations provide that when water is stored within the flood control reservation of the reservoir, releases will be as rapidly as possible without exceeding damaging capacities of the downstream channel.