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Title	Germantown Dam Photographs
Subject	Geography and Natural Resources Climate and Weather Miami Conservancy District (Ohio) Dams Flood control
Place	Germantown (Ohio) Montgomery County (Ohio)
Description	These two 10.5" x 6.5" (26.67 x 16.51 cm) photographs show the Germantown Dam. The first shows the building of the cofferdam at the entrance to the north conduit, in preparation for concreting the permanent floor. The second photograph is looking upstream on the north river bank below the dam. It shows the downstream face of the finished dam. The Germantown Dam is an earthen embankment located across Twin Creek in southwestern Montgomery County near the village of Germantown. A conservancy road goes across the top of the dam. The dam was built to temporarily store floodwater and has no gates or permanent pool. It is 1,210 feet long and 100 feet high. There are two concrete conduits through the base of the embankment at the north abutment. The conduits are sized to discharge a peak flow during an Official Plan Flood that can be handled by the flood protection levees and channels downstream. The remainder of the floodwaters are temporarily stored behind the dam and released over time. An emergency spillway is located in a low area through the left abutment north of the dam. Following the 1913 flood that devastated the Miami Valley, a vigorous movement for flood protection began in Dayton. The Relief Commission quickly raised a $2 million Flood Prevention Fund and employed Arthur Morgan, who later was the first director of the Tennessee Valley Authority, and the Morgan Engineering Company to develop a flood protection plan for the city of Dayton. After some preliminary survey work, Morgan's engineers concluded that effective flood protection was too large an undertaking for one community and would require the cooperative action of the entire Miami Valley. Since Ohio did not have a law that would permit a regional cooperative undertaking of this nature, the Conservancy Act of Ohio was prepared and passed by the legislature on February 14, 1914. The day after the signing of the Conservancy Act by the governor, a petition was filed in the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County asking for the establishment of the Miami Conservancy District. In 2003, the district oversaw five dams, 60 miles of levees, and 37 miles of modified river channels in nine communities along the Great Miami River.
Creator	Miami Conservancy District
Date of Original	November 29, 1920; March 09, 1921
Source	Audiovisual material 12316 12462-a
Submitting Institution	Miami Conservancy District
Type	StillImage
Format	picture

Title	Om1725_2803564_013
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om1725_2803564_013.tif
Image Height	1918
Image Width	3102
File Size	591.02 KB

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