Schley

About Schley

The primary purpose of Schley 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 Schley's Ledgeview Acres, Ltd (private). It impounds the Tr-raspberry Lake near Home.

The dam stands 41 feet tall and stretches 700 feet across, creates a reservoir covering 13 acres, has a maximum storage capacity of 190 acre-feet, and collects water from a drainage area of 0 square miles. Completed in 1969, the structure is well into its service life at over 50 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 10/01/2014. That was over 11 years ago.

At 41 feet, this dam is taller than 88% of dams nationwide.

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