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

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