A splash dam was a temporary wooden dam used to raise the water level in streams to float logs downstream to sawmills. [1] By impounding water and allowing it to be released on the log drive's schedule, these dams allowed many more logs to be brought to market than the natural flow of the stream allowed.

The structure before you is known as a “splash dam” (also referred to as “surge”, or “flash” dams), part of an old transportation system for the movement of logs and railroad ties from the forest to sawmills in the valley.

A splash dam was a temporary wooden dam used to raise the water level in streams so that logs could be floated downstream to the sawmills. When the water was released, logs that had been dumped into the pond behind the dam, together with others collected along the watercourse below the dam, were quickly flushed downstream.

4 days ago · This route features a beautiful trip along the Appalachian Trail to visit three gorgeous waterfalls. The first of the falls is the impressive, 80-foot Elk River Falls. Jones Falls can be found at the end of the left branch of the route, and Splash Dam …

splash dam was a temporary wooden dam used to raise the water level in streams so that logs could be floated downstream to the sawmills. When the water was released, logs that had been dumped into the pond behind the dam, together with others collected along the watercourse below the dam, were quickly flushed downstream.

Splash Dams were another source to move logs down the mountains especially during low water seasons. A wooden dam was built across a creek so a reservoir would form. Logs were dumped in the water above the dam.

Oct 11, 2009 · Splash Dams were built to store logs. During the winter of 1903-04, logs were held in a 36-acre pond. In April, the logs were blasted loose when the main dam was opened.

NOTE: Apparently there is another waterfall called Splash Dam Falls if we would have kept going along the trail following the Elk River. So if you have time, it is possible to hit three falls in the day.

Aug 1, 2015 · The Tioga Dam was the largest splash dam in the Northwest. It was the first of what would grow to become 230 splash dams throughout western Oregon. Let's start big picture.

Logs were sent downstream in pulses using temporary dams known as splash dams. A splash dam was constructed to pond water and floating logs and, when full, was commonly destroyed with dynamite with the intent of sending a flood-wave of water and logs rapidly downstream.