![]() The $50 million project began in March 2018 with tree removal across approximately 110 acres. “Cross your fingers for 2023,” McNulty said of the project’s completion. Once the dam gets the all-clear, final connections will be made, linking the reservoir’s intake tower to the gravity-fed pipeline that will pull water through White Park to MUB’s water treatment facility.Īnd just when you think the process is nearly complete, comes the task of filling the 50-acre, 370-million gallon reservoir using the natural flow of Cobun Creek at a maximum fill rate of one foot per day. ![]() “We’ve been working on it for three years, four years, so we hope that amount of time is going to be greatly reduced, but we don’t know that yet.” “At that point, our engineers will tell us, along with Dam Safety, how long it has to sit,” MUB Assistant GM and Chief Engineer Rich Rogers said, explaining it could take the better part of a year for the structure to settle. Once completed, the dam will be 70 feet tall, 450 feet long and 850 feet wide. While that doesn’t sound like a tremendous task, contractor Kanawha Stone has to build the dam inches at a time to ensure the half-million cubic yards of clay-rich soil is compacted consistently. MUB General Manager Mike McNulty said the earthen dam is about 16 feet from its final elevation of 1,069 feet above sea level. MORGANTOWN - With any luck in the weather department, the dam portion of the Morgantown Utility Board’s new Flegal Dam and Reservoir could be completed next month. ![]() Read, enjoy and share the latest news in Charleston, Huntington and Morgantown on West Virginia Central Press Syndicate.
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