Echo Dam is a dam in

Summit County, Utah Summit County is a county in the U.S. state of Utah, occupying a rugged and mountainous area. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 36,324. Its county seat is Coalville, and the largest city is Park City. History The coun ...

, standing about north of

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and creating Echo Reservoir. The earthen dam was constructed in 1931 by the

United States Bureau of Reclamation The Bureau of Reclamation, and formerly the United States Reclamation Service, is a federal agency under the U.S. Department of the Interior, which oversees water resource management, specifically as it applies to the oversight and opera ...

. It has a height of , impounding the water of the

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and 836 square miles of the Weber Basin for water storage and agricultural irrigation. Other Weber Basin projects of the Bureau include the upstream

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. Echo Dam is owned by the Bureau and operated by the local Weber River Water Users Association. In July 2012, crews began a $50 million seismic retrofit project on the dam to address potentially unstable subsoil conditions. Echo Reservoir has a capacity of . As a recreation area the reservoir offers fishing, boating, camping, and hiking.

External links

Weber River Water Users Association

References

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