Salt Lick Creek Watershed Frs 4

About Salt Lick Creek Watershed Frs 4

The primary purpose of Salt Lick Creek Watershed Frs 4 is flood risk reduction. The dam is designed to control downstream flooding by temporarily storing excess water during storms and releasing it at a controlled rate. The dam is owned by Salt Lick Watershed Conservation District (local government). It impounds the Tr-salt Lick Creek near Salt Lick.

The dam stands 32 feet tall and stretches 550 feet across, creates a reservoir covering 7 acres, has a maximum storage capacity of 248 acre-feet, and collects water from a drainage area of 1 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. Its condition is rated fair — the dam has minor deficiencies that are being addressed or do not pose an immediate safety threat. An emergency action plan is in place for this dam. The most recent inspection on record was 11/21/2014. That was over 11 years ago.

At 32 feet, this dam is taller than 76% of dams nationwide.

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