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<br />. <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />to the go.te chamber, in which two 24-inch g'1te v'11ves nre installed. <br /> <br />Below the valves two 24-inch steel conduits le~d to ~ suit'1ble gnte <br /> <br /> <br />house ot the toe of the dam in which there will be two 18-inch <br /> <br /> <br />needle v'1lves. Tho outlet works are designed to discho.rge 150 <br /> <br /> <br />second-feet with water-surface "t clevation 7884, at which level <br /> <br />the reservoir is approximately half full. <br /> <br />Spillway <br /> <br />A spillway is not needed, b€c3.use of the very limited <br /> <br />area in a c0untry of SIlk'lll runoff, which lies "bove the reservoir. <br /> <br />However, the most convenient location from which to qU3rry reck <br /> <br />needed in building the dam is "t the end of the right abutment, <br />where rock is exposed at the surf'1ce, and this quarry exc:tvaticn <br /> <br />will provide a spillway leading to "nother slmll dry arroyo <br /> <br />parallel to and within 100 feet of the end of the dam. Little or <br />no expense beyond the qunrryinf of the rock should ffi3.ke an accept- <br /> <br />able spillway, which Llay never be used. <br /> <br />Feeder Canals <br /> <br />The best use of the Weber Reservoir requires th3.t the <br /> <br />feeder c3nals adopted for the larger reservoir in the May 1937 <br /> <br />report be also used with the reservoir of 5,000 acre-foot yield. <br /> <br />2310 <br /> <br />31 <br />