Silver Lake Dam
Silver Lake Dam is a dam off of Silver Lake Road outside of Woodridge in New York in the United States. It was built in the 1840s to regulate the Sandburg Creek, which supplied the vertex distance of 15 km further west in the Delaware and Hudson canal with water. On 20 June 2000 the building to the National Register of Historic Places has been added.
The water construction project so created the 34 -acre lake, which eventually became as Silver Lake to destination for visitors to the predominantly Jewish summer vacation resorts in Woodridge and the surrounding communities that developed in the early 20th century in the Borscht Belt. The dam is owned by the Village of Woodridge.
Description
The building is a structure made of stone, with large mortar blocks a dry gravel mass enclose inside. The dam has a length of 54 m and is fixed to the upper edge of 1.5 m in thickness. Its height on the seeabgewandten page is 4 m. There was a centrally arranged overflow of a width of three meters and a depth of 50 cm. Two cast-iron pipes whose flow was controlled by large gate valves at the top of the dam near the spillway led by the base of the dam.
History
In the 1840s necessitated the upgrade of the Delaware and Hudson Canal, which runs through the Town of Mamakating to the southeast, a more reliable supply of critical vertices section between there and Napanoch. The opening into the Basha Kill Sandburg Creek, the catchment area of around Wood Ridge almost to the channel path extends in Wurtsboro, was identified as the body of water that could be dammed to form a reservoir to feed the canal. The dam was constructed at the appropriate place long before the area was developed and populated.
By 1895, when the use of the channel, given the displacement of transport shipping by the railroads declined, as they did not have to stop running in the winter, the building was renovated and repaired. The New York State Conservation Commission noted in 1914 that the dam not much compared to its original appearance has been altered.
At this time, the channel operation had come completely to rest, and the dam was transferred to private ownership. The reservoir, which the Commission referred in its report as Woods Lake, had become a center of attraction for the newly established Woodridge and frequented by Jews summer stays around. At both ends of the lake, a swimming beach was set up, and on its banks emerged some cottages.
Water washed away a portion of the building and caused a dam break in 1999, in which nearly three-quarters of the Seeinhalts expired. The local economy has been adversely affected by the lowering of the water level. The Village requested grants, which were also allocated from state and federal government to repair the dam and restore the lake. The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC ) - the successor to the New York Conservation Commission - in whose jurisdiction fall dams in the state of New York, hesitated, the repair in order to assess whether the dam should be classified in a higher level of risk in terms of a dam break. This would have increased the cost and a revised project requires. Finally, the DEC approved the project subject to conditions. The result of the tender was a setback for Woodridge, because the lowest bid amounted to 1.5 million U.S. dollars, almost twice the estimated budget.