Big Park Watershed Site C-1

About Big Park Watershed Site C-1

The primary purpose of Big Park Watershed Site C-1 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 Crawford County Swcd (local government). It impounds the Tr-boyer River near Dunlap.

The dam stands 43 feet tall and stretches 256 feet across, creates a reservoir covering 2 acres, has a maximum storage capacity of 55 acre-feet, and collects water from a drainage area of 0 square miles. Completed in 1962, 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. The most recent inspection on record was 11/22/1963. That was over 62 years ago.

At 43 feet, this dam is taller than 89% of dams nationwide.

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