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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …