Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-01-15
TWO YEARS. WORK COMPLETED
Storage Reservoir in Upper
Reaches of Branch of Deerfield.
Dpm IL an Earth FIJI 1850 Feet Long
on the Crest and 100 Feet High,
without Masonry Core.
(Brom the Engineering News0

(From the Engineering News)
In connection with chain Of power
developments on the Dccrticld river in
Massachusetts and Vermont, tho Now
England Power company has Just COM
pleted a storage reservoir In the upper
reaches OF a branch of this river, in
order to increase the stream flow during
periods when the rest of the drainage
area does not supply the desired amount
OF water. This reservoir is notable
chiefly because of It's dar-an earth Ill
without masonry core wall, 1850 fl. long
on the crest and Of a maximum height
OF 100 IT. as finished without final settle
ment. The work was started In Septem-
Der. 1911, coincident with work on the
other projects in the Deer1eld Valley,
and was completed on the first OF
December OF this year except for q
little work IN the spillway channel The
construction of this large earth FIJI
shows many features of interest.
A closely related subsidiary concern of
the power conpany-the Power Construo-
ton company-was organized to handle
the design and construction of all these
projects. 1t carried through the con-
at,ucticn of this dam With its own
forces, while much OF the construction
on the river below was suhet. The
president of the Power Construction
company directed the administration,
purchasing, c:c.; under him was the en-
cheering force. tn, superintendent Of
construction and tbc ACCOUNTING, deport-
mont Tbnt +hc interests NJ tho mower
rornarv mint r.y,r no subordinate +,-
those NJ IN. construction company. the
enyire.rs wore charmed with the re-
snonsiI,i,v for tho sotisrac+orv dasign
and .xacutiun Of tho work. and given
tb. no,v.r ia r.n,r, hack mast tho con-
struction cnrnnanv to tho directors of
tbo uo,,or cnunanv obou, any on
alneoriny raotu,.s Of tbo work
rbe dam is ,ocotod ot what was
Packs mill i'm the town Of Somerset. Vt.
! nhort % miles north Of the NIassachu-
setts Stato line A. TN. site. conv.rping
| hills sbut II, "a small varIev with st.an
sid. stones the land heinc wooded hut
recently ON, aver aud or no ariicult,Iral
v.lno
SOffi-h AND 'NNf fiANDl-lN'
on account Of the sparse and scatter
ed populntion. there were no large stores
of supplies close nv. making it neces-
sary to ship in from a distance the
comparatively large amounts of food
etc, required for force of up to ~
men. However, the Boston u Maine
railroad connects at Hoosac Tunnel viii
a branch line. the liuosac Tunnel dnc
| Wilmington railroad and a narrow-gagt
lumber road runs farther up the Deer
field river from near Wilmington to The
immediate site of tn, dam. With these
facilities service was fair, considering
the necessarily limited equipment %
such brahch lheS ana lhe h'aNN "o'
MAJ tfaihc AT tunes fur'h'Ii''"''' II
Jui!' 1870 inc lodu u Ni''ili''7'o'' va
converted from ha'ro"-EaRe |" St""'"' u
Inc ulhKy locomotives anu 'ohS'l"o'o'
cars were sent III most Oh the wa "'
their trucks IN" steam shoNeIS "'I
lifted with cohVertlbI" TRUCKS so ina
they could De shipped over 'oIh proa'
and narrow-Eage roads Withou' Ioa'lhs
While this dam was hulit IN '"uhT'
where the chief Industry Is numbering
most Of the cut was hard wood 50 tina
. much Of the lumber for tn" work MAJ
2 to be shipped in from other localities
:
however were cut on the spot.
, There were two construction camps
? one rhe larger for foreign labor an
the other for Americans (more skille
p mechanicsD All these houses were bull
e of rough boards, with tar-paper GOVERN
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by CANNING s''''i p'ooN "a,
INTO thh "Tai4ch vi NV
near the camp cH acr"'''. Va '"0
ehce OF men ana hoiSe9 '' ''o ""''
however the Wlloi' camp Was ~"
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