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Soldier Creek Dam

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Constructed between 1970 and 1974, the dam replaced the earlier Strawberry Dam, built slightly upstream of the current site from 1911 to 1913. The new dam increased the storage capacity of Strawberry Reservoir from 283,000 acre-feet (0.349 km) to more than 1,120,000 acre-feet (1.38 km). The
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Soldier Creek Dam is a zoned earthfill embankment 272 feet (83 m) high and 1,290 feet (390 m) long, with a structural volume of 3,206,000 cubic yards (2,451,000 m). Water releases from the dam are controlled by
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with a bypass capacity of 2,830 cu ft/s (80 m/s). The dam controls runoff from a drainage area of 170 square miles (440 km).
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primary purpose of the dam is to store flows from the upper Strawberry River, as well as water diverted from eight tributaries of the
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and is a principal feature of the Strawberry Valley Project, part of the Bonneville Unit of the
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Dams in the Green River (Colorado River tributary) basin
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Wasatch County
Utah
United States
40°08′12″N 111°01′38″W / 40.13667°N 111.02722°W / 40.13667; -111.02722
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
Type of dam
Strawberry River
Strawberry Reservoir
Catchment area
Strawberry River
Uinta National Forest
Wasatch County
Utah
Strawberry Reservoir
Central Utah Project
United States Bureau of Reclamation
Duchesne River
Utah Valley
Diamond Fork
Spanish Fork
Utah Lake
outlet works
Utah portal
List of dams and reservoirs in Utah




"Soldier Creek Dam Dimensions"

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