National Program for Inspection of Non-Federal Dams. Farmington Reservoir Dam (CT 00263), Connecticut River Basin, Farmington, Connecticut. Phase I Inspection Report.
Abstract
The Farmington Reservoir Dam is an earth embankment impounding an unnamed tributary to the Pequabuck River and is reported to have been built in 1895. The dam (including spillway) is 760 feet long and eight (8) feet wide at the top. The dam has a maximum impoundment capacity of 64 acre-feet and is about 8 feet in height from the toe of the downstream slope to the top of the dam. The spillway is a 32 foot long, and 2.8 foot high, concrete, ogee shaped weir. There is no information available on outlet pipes. Based upon the visual inspection at the site and past performance, the dam is judged to be in poor condition. There are areas requiring attention, monitoring, and maintenance such as seeps along the toe of the embankment, erosion on the upstream and downstream slopes, location and operation of outlet and inlet structures and valves, and removal of trees. Peak inflow to the impoundment at the test flood is 315 cfs; peak outflow is 250 cfs with the maximum stage in the reservoir at 383.7, or 1.0 foot below the top of the dam. Based on this information the dam is not expected to overtop at the test flood condition. The spillway capacity with the pool at top of dam is estimated to be 525 cfs which is greater than 100% of the routed test flood outflow.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1980
- Accession Number
- ADA144084
Entities
Organizations
- New England District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers