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  Miami Conservancy District - flood protection - MCD system - Englewood Dam
Englewood Dam is an earthen embankment located across the Stillwater River in northern Montgomery County near the City of Englewood.
Construction of the dam began in February of 1918 and was completed in December of 1921.
The City’s wastewater treatment plant is located downstream of the dam, west of the river.
www.miamiconservancy.org /flood/dams_englewood.asp   (322 words)

  
  Englewood Dam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Englewood Dam is a dam located near Englewood, Ohio in Southwest Ohio.
The dam's waterproof impervious core consists of a mixture of clay and sand known as hydraulic fill that was mixed using a sluice.
The dam is the largest of the five dams constructed and maintained by the Miami Conservancy District, consisting of a volume of earth equal to the volume of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Englewood_Dam   (205 words)

  
 Englewood, Ohio
Englewood, founded as Harrisburg, was not laid out until 1841, but the Rasors, Herrs, Gishes, and Stutzmans had purchased lands upon which the town was built in the early 1800s.
The building of the National Road put Englewood on the map and construction of hotels and other businesses to accommodate travelers helped the town to grow.
Construction of Englewood Dam and later the proximity of the town to the Dayton Airport, Interstate 70, and Englewood Reserve has enabled the city to grow and attract industries.
www.rths.org /englewood.htm   (124 words)

  
 Englewood, Ohio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Englewood is a northern suburb of Dayton located in Montgomery County, Ohio.
Englewood is located on Dayton's North Main Street (OH-48) on the west bank of the Stillwater River.
After the great 1913 flood, the Miami Conservancy District constructed a dry dam on the Stillwater River in Englewood.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Englewood,_Ohio   (455 words)

  
 Definition of dam
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 Miami Conservancy District - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Miami Conservancy District built levees, straightened the river channel throughout the Miami Valley, and built five dry dams on various tributaries to control flooding.
The district and its projects are unusual in that they were funded almost entirely by local tax initiatives, unlike similar projects elsewhere which were funded by the federal government and coordinated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Englewood Dam — Stillwater River — Englewood, Ohio
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Miami_Conservancy_District   (273 words)

  
 Rocky Mountain News: Local
But Dam the Dams disbanded a few years later, Wendt and other former members said, no longer fearing what it once thought was an evil, imminent plot.
The discovery of the striking similarity between Churchill's essays and the Dam the Dams pamphlet comes as the University of Colorado's standing committee on research misconduct investigates a plagiarism charge against the tenured ethnic studies professor, as well as other allegations of research misconduct.
In fact, Dam the Dams was long gone by 1989, when Churchill said his research organization collaborated with Dam the Dams on the article.
www.rockymountainnews.com /drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_3827452,00.html   (1750 words)

  
 Miami Conservancy District - Flood Protection - MCD System
The dams and levees operate without human intervention and have no moving parts, but people are necessary to maintain the system and monitor and operate floodgates during high-water events.
Floodgates over storm-sewer outfalls to the river are closed during high-water events to prevent the river’s rising waters from backing up into the storm sewers into the protected areas behind the levee.
The remainder of the time, the land behind the dams – 35,650 acres – is used predominantly for parkland and farmland.
www.miamiconservancy.org /flood/dams.asp   (306 words)

  
 Miami Conservancy District - flood protection - MCD system - Huffman Dam
Huffman Dam is an earthen embankment located across the Mad River in northwestern Greene County near the City of Fairborn.
Construction of the dam began in January of 1918 and was completed in December of 1921.
The dam has three concrete conduits through the base of the embankment near the left abutment.
www.miamiconservancy.org /flood/dams_huffman.asp   (294 words)

  
 Skipper and the Dam
New suburbs blossomed in the surrounding plains and foothills, and the old ones spread riotously: Englewood and Littleton to the south; Lakewood and Wheat Ridge to the west; Arvada to the northwest; Thornton, Northglenn, and Westminster to the north; Aurora to the east.
The dam would divert some of the river into a tunnel through the southern wall of the canyon to a treatment plant in the foothills on the other side.
Tellico Dam was its first case, and it ruled in the darter's favor, saying that the dam would cause the fish's extinction and that the T.V.A. hadn't explored all the alternatives.
www.dispatchesfromthevanishingworld.com /pastdispatches/butterfly/printerskipper.html   (9770 words)

  
 Insulin-Free TIMES: All about Curing Diabetes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Englewood, OH Englewood Dam is one of five built during the 1920's in western Ohio.
The good people of Englewood, tired of seeing their lives destroyed by the flooding of Stillwater River, covered all the labor and costs of the herculean effort.
Today, as he looked at the dam, Brian DuVal, the Fast Track cyclist, remarked that curing diabetes will take the same resolve and sheer hard work that it took to build Englewood Dam.
www.insulinfreetimes.com /99_fall/25sheer.htm   (113 words)

  
 The Ghostly Girl at Englewood Dam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The tale of a ghostly encounter at Dayton's Englewood Dam.
Then out of the blue she says that the little girl roams the other side of dam in a white cape.
She told me a young girl was killed down by the river years ago, and that it was her I had seen.
www.forgottenoh.com /Encounters/englewood.html   (404 words)

  
 Letter to Des Moines City Council
He said that several kayakers had tried to run a dam on the South Platte River in Englewood and drowned back in the 1980's, so the city and the Army Corps of Engineers built an angled extension onto the base of the dam that eliminated the "boil" and kept the daredevils from being sucked under.
Most dams have outlived their usefulness...but they don't necessarily need to be removed.
Englewood, CO and many other cities have changed the profile of their dams and not only made it safe, but created a recreational feature as well.
www.desmoinesriver.org /dsmcitycouncil.htm   (1040 words)

  
 Flood of 1913 Collection, Historical Scetchl
Not wanting to see shantytowns spring up around the construction sites to house the hundreds of migrant workers, some with families, he built at each of the five dams a village camp for the workers and their families, complete with sanitary sewers, water lines, electricity, green space, schools and cafeterias.
A full-time caretaker was assigned to each of the five dams and nine local protection features (levees, floodwalls and channel enlargements).
Since completion at the end of 1922, the dams have held back waters on over 1000 occasions, and at no time has more than 60 per cent of the capacity been reached.
home.dayton.lib.oh.us /Archives/Flood1913/FloodHistorSketch.html   (2096 words)

  
 westword.com | Culture | Changing Views | 2004-12-02
The current DAM is a masterpiece by Italy's Gio Ponti, done in collaboration with Denver's James Sudler.
At the same time, the City of Englewood is developing guidelines for rehabilitating the down-at-the-heels South Broadway corridor, while preservationists have identified the bank, the work of legendary Denver architect William Muchow, as being among the most important buildings on South Broadway in Englewood.
Let's put the issue in the context of Englewood's built environment: The most important period of the town's history is the 1950s and &'60s, when it boomed as a Denver suburb.
www.westword.com /issues/2004-12-02/culture/art.html   (1722 words)

  
 Englewood Bike Path
The trail extends across the Northern face of the dam into the MetroPark proper and connects to the existing trails (alongside the park roads) in the park.
Currently the trail follows the road, but by looking at the stakes in the ground on the other side of the split rail fence, you can see that the trail will be off the road when construction is completed.
You can see the dam's spillway in the middle distance and you can see the stakes on the right side of the road where the trail will eventually be built.
www.miamivalleytrails.org /englewood_bike_path.htm   (1081 words)

  
 EARS ( WA4IWLetter ) Newsletter archive for JUL_1999
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has forced the owners of the 162-year-old Edwards Dam on the Kennebec River in Augusta, Maine to remove that dam--at their expense--in the name of "conservation" and "environmental protection".
Tom gave many tips on protecting one's self in today's environment, and demonstrated an alarm system that reacts to a sudden change in atmospheric pressure inside your home, such as occurs when a door is opened.
Englewood did not seem to be in the main rain area.
www.fcrosby.com /ears/archives/jul_1999.html   (4716 words)

  
 Our Fell Ponies
Model's dam Waverhead Pearl was also a champion many times in the show ring in her day, including 2-year-old and Youngstock Champion at the FPS Breed Show and Reserve Fell Pony Champion at Lowther.
Rock Rose and her dam were raised in a semi-feral Fell pony herd in Cumbria, before both were imported for our breeding program.
Fells are slow to mature, and we believe they should not be bred until they are at least 3 years old to be sure they are ready to carry a foal.
www.laurelhighland.com /ourfells.htm   (4222 words)

  
 Council Meeting Minutes
Chief Bergman said Englewood will be discussing this at their next meeting.
Mayor Packard introduced Ron Nunnari from the Englewood Independent and Martha Hardcastle from the Dayton Daily News who were sitting up at the council dais in the empty councilmember's chairs so that more seats were available to the public.
Chief Bergman said similar legislation was passed by Englewood in the fall of last year.
www.ci.union.oh.us /min1q01.html   (10857 words)

  
 Fish - Five Rivers MetroParks - Dayton, OH
The best places for trophy largemouth bass are Englewood North Park and the Wenger Road Pond.
The Wenger Road pond is accessed by the recreation trail in Englewood MetroPark.
For those interested in smallmouth bass, the pool below Englewood dam yielded several fish in the 14-16 inch range during surveys.
www.metroparks.org /_conservation/fishing.aspx   (373 words)

  
 Meeting Abstracts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Thus, proposals for new dams in these states are on hold, their future is less certain than the Chiapas projects.
The new Minimum Earthquake PGA parameter will be within the range of 0.15g to 0.25g based on whether the dam is new or existing, the consequence of failure of the dam, and the return period associated with design parameter chosen.
After each dam segment was set into place, tremie concrete was pumped into its internal hollow chambers, displacing water from the interior of the segment.
www.aegweb.org /annual_meetings/2003/abstracts.html   (19427 words)

  
 aullwood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The site is located north of Dayton near the city of Englewood, in Montgomery County.
From I-70, exit at Ohio 48, proceed north to Englewood Dam and turn east across the dam, then right to the Center.
Nearby is Aullwood Garden, part of Englewood Reserve, and the Dayton International Airport.
www.netwalk.com /~vireo/aullwood.html   (319 words)

  
 Englewood MetroPark   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Trips south of the dam are also possible.
Winter Recreation: With sufficient snow fall, cross-country ski the hiking trails and picnic areas or sled on the sledding hill, reached by path on the west side of the river (sledding is not permitted on the dam.).
Protect Englewood MetroPark as a natural area; do not pick, collect or disturb plant or animal materials of any kind.
metroparks.org /Facilities/Englewood_MetroPark/englewood_metropark.html   (435 words)

  
 OnlineHotels.com - Englewood Beach area State Parks - Oscar Scherer State Park Information
Home to many endangered and threatened species, notably the Florida scrub jay, Oscar Scherer State Park provides an oasis of seclusion and natural beauty amidst the traffic and congestion that are part of our everyday lives.
Ironically, you may catch bass, bream or catfish above the dam, and snook, redfish and snapper below the dam where the water becomes brackish.
englewood beach travel tips - englewood beach beaches - englewood beach parks - englewood beach attractions - about us
www.englewoodbeachhotels.com /oscar-park.asp   (220 words)

  
 Geo Slides   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
View upstream from crest of dam showing Miami River, the lower end of ponding basin, and on right, till filling of valley excavated to build dam.
Englewood Dam, Stillwater Creek, from upstream side looking E. from level of highest possible backwater.
Trees in valley cut off by the Katmai flood (due to breaking of landslide dam) at level of ash plain; amount of erosion since shown by height of protruding stumps.
geology.cwru.edu /~huwig/catalog/catalog.html   (6789 words)

  
 ASH 06/19/01 Complete
The next five miles, which goes down to the Northumberland Dam, Section 2 there, has 15 hot spots, and that average sediment concentration is about -- surface sediment concentration is about 26 parts per million.
Though Section 3, which goes all the way down to Troy Dam, is 29 miles, there's only 5 hot spots there, and that averages about 9 parts per million.
There were reasons back then, including the fact that the dam at Fort Edward was removed, GE stopped discharging in 1976, '77, and the last navigational dredging was done around that time.
www.njleg.state.nj.us /legislativepub/Pubhear/061901LB.htm   (14340 words)

  
 hottubsandspas.bycity.us - hot tubs and spa services Davis Dam Arizona   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
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 Standley Lake Dam Improvement Project :: Northglenn, City of :: Serving our citizens' needs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Standley Lake dam was constructed between 1908 and 1912 by Farmers Reservoir and Irrigation Company (FRICO).
To improve the aging dam and ensure a reliable source of storage for many years to come the Cities of Northglenn, Thornton and Westminster and FRICO have partnered to improve the dam.
The Standley Lake Dam Improvement project began in mid July 2002 and is scheduled to continue into late 2004.
www.northglenn.org /displayarticle41.html?POSTNUKESID=627c328fd203b8ac8e3ef030196c9607   (217 words)

  
 Aullwood Audubon Center and Farm's Neighbors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Also to the south and east is the south segment of Englewood MetroPark.
To the north and west is land owned by the Miami Conservancy District but used as parkland by the MetroParks.
It is one of a set of five dry dams that act like flow restrictors in time of high water.
aullwood.center.audubon.org /2neighbo.html   (219 words)

  
 ClubLeagueHockeyHome   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
If it rains hard or snows hard Beaver Dam will be on a one rink schedule.
If that happens, the 1st game will be at 8:15AM, the 2nd game at 9:30AM, Lunch at 11:30 AM and the Championship at 1:45PM with no consolation game.
Essex vs. Beaver Dam in game 1 and Beacon Hill vs. Huntington in game 2.
www.clubleaguehockey.com   (359 words)

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