DT Data Page #: 297

Newspaper: Humboldt Times

Newspaper Date: 8/24/1960

Page #: 3

Item Type: Water Supply - Infrastructure

Place: Ruth Dam Essex Samoa

Text: Ruth Dam is to be completed by December 31, 1961. Still to be constructed are the diversion facilities and pump house of Essex and a pipeline to the future pulp mills of Samoa Peninsula. THe HBMWD also approved an engineering and financial feasibility survey on the district's application for $300,000 in Davis-Grunsky Act funds for recreation. This money would be used to defray cost of added height on dam registered by DF for recreation and fish life.

Key Words: Ruth Dam, Water Diversion, Water Supply, Recreation, Funding, Pumphouse, Pulp Mills, Samoa, Davis-Grunsky

Microfilm Call # : MF 10