Lake Overholser Dam
by Jonas Wingfield
Title
Lake Overholser Dam
Artist
Jonas Wingfield
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Photograph - Photograph
Description
The Lake Overholser Dam, designed by Niels Ambursen and built by the Ambursen Construction Company of New York, is 68 feet (21 m) high and 1,258 feet (383 m)long. Oklahoma City residents voted a $1.5 million bond issue in 1916 to pay for the project. The dam is built of reinforced poured concrete.
The dam has four distinct sections of buttressed spillways and a solid spilway. A concrete walkway extends across the dam over the buttreaaes until it comes to the larger spillway, where it is carried by a Pratt through truss.
A concrete wing wall anchors the dam into the eastern river bank. The first span of the dam, between the eastern wing wall and the pump house, is wide. The brick-walled pump house has a gabled tile roof, a small chimney, and two round ventilators. It sits above four arched sluiceway openings
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September 9th, 2015
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