About

The primary purpose of is fire protection, stock, or small fish pond. The dam maintains a small impoundment used for fire suppression, livestock watering, or as a fish pond. The dam is owned by Chaffee, Thomas W & Bernice A (private). It impounds the Elm Creek-tr near Grantville.

The dam stands 35 feet tall and stretches 615 feet across, creates a reservoir covering 7 acres, has a maximum storage capacity of 236 acre-feet, and collects water from a drainage area of 0 square miles. Completed in 1977, the structure is 49 years old.

This dam has a low hazard potential classification, meaning that failure would cause minimal damage, limited primarily to the dam owner's property, with no expected loss of life. An emergency action plan is in place for this dam. The most recent inspection on record was 06/14/2011. That was over 14 years ago.

At 35 feet, this dam is taller than 82% of dams nationwide.

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