🚧 THIS WEBPAGE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION 🚧
The following photos are highlights of the construction of the Dam Restoration Project. These photos do not encompass the entire project but are just highlights.
CURRENT PICTURES
May 2026
Dam Rd. Prior to Impoundment
Upper Lake Dam
Upper Lake Dam
North Lake
North Lake
North Lake
Sanford Dam
Sanford Dam
Pine Lake Dam
OLDER PHOTOS (beginning of the project)
August 2023





September 2023









October 2023








Excavating Bypass Canal





November 2023




December 2023

Completed the downstream MIP platform construction

Added 2nd cement to increase plant capacity

MIP Drill installing test panels on the downstream platform

Principal spillway excavation site overview

Drilling deep de-water wells

Excavating MIP test panels for core samples

Excavating the spillway base

Dressing reels on the dam back slope after a rain event

Checking the CSM drill head

Sunset from inside of the spillway (tree tops in center are on Holly Point Rd.)
January 2024

Excavating unsuitable soil

Installing the dewatering system trunk piping

Overview of the Upper Dam breach

Clearing vegetation ahead of the coffer dam installation on the Upper Lake dam

Constructing the coffer dam - Upper Lake dam

Upper Dam coffer construction

View from inside of Sanford Dam bypass canal

Constructing the Upper Dam work platform

Contractors building cement forms for Upper Dam spillway

Setting up CSM pre-drill rig at Sanford Dam excavation site
April 2024

May 2024



