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Dams -- Utah -- Design and construction -- History -- Sources

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Wallace F. Bennett papers of American Fork-Dry Creek Watershed, 1959

 File — Box 286: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197230360916], Folder: 2
Identifier: MSS 20 Series 2 Sub-Series B
Scope and Contents note

Folder contains correspondence, congressional records, reports with maps, and newspaper clippings from 1958 to1959 that provide construction information and details of the American Fork-Dry Creek and North Fork Ogden River watershed projects in Utah.

Dates: Other: 1959

Wallace F. Bennett papers of the Dixie Project, 1963-1966

 File — Box 254: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197230360601], Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 20 Series 2 Sub-Series A
Scope and Contents note Folder contains press releases, hearings, correspondence, congressional records, newspaper clippings, and legislative bills from 1963 to 1964 that concern different aspects of the Dixie Project in Utah. The information provided includes moving one of the dam sites for the Dixie Project eight miles downstream on the Virgin River to Warner's Ridge because of unsuitable conditions for construction at the previous site, as well as integrating the Dixie Project into the Lower Colorado River Basin...
Dates: Other: 1963-1966

Wallace F. Bennett papers on Central Arizona Project, 1963-1965

 File — Carton 447: Series 3 [Barcode: 31197230362607], Folder: 13
Identifier: MSS 20 Series 3 Sub-Series B
Scope and Contents note Folder contains correspondence, legislative bills, reports, newspaper clippings, congressional records, and statements from 1963 to 1965 concerning the Central Arizona Project in Arizona and New Mexico as well as controversy surrounding the preservation of the Grand Canyon area in the Western United States. The information about the Central Arizona Project pertains to the conflict between California and Arizona about the use of water from the Colorado River. The Grand Canyon information...
Dates: Other: 1963-1965

Wallace F. Bennett papers on Glen Canyon, 1956-1965

 File — Carton 447: Series 3 [Barcode: 31197230362607], Folder: 2-5
Identifier: MSS 20 Series 3 Sub-Series B
Scope and Contents note Folders contain press releases, newspaper clippings, correspondence, congressional records, pamphlets, reports, and legislative bills from 1956 to 1965 that provide information about concerns, construction, and plans for establishment of recreational areas for the Glen Canyon and Flaming Gorge Units of the Colorado River Storage Project in the Western United States. Also provided are Anthropological Papers from September 1959 which outline the history of the Glen Canyon Region from 1776 to...
Dates: Other: 1956-1965