Fortunately, Eastwood was able to sell his design to the Hume-Bennett Lumber Co., and the first multiple-arch dam was built in 1908 at Hume Lake Reservoir in the Sequoia National Forest.

Pieces of rebar extrude from the Eastwood Multiple Arch Dam. Retrofitting could begin next spring. Randy Pench [email protected] In the Gold Rush-era foothills community of Jackson, the worst-case ...

The dam was built in 1908 and is the world’s first concrete multiple-arch dam. It created Hume Lake, which originally was used as a water source for a logging operation.

The concrete Eastwood Multiple Arch Dam in Jackson was built in 1916 and holds back large quantities of arsenic-contaminated tailings left over from gold mining.

This article was originally published with the title “The Multiple Arch Concrete Dam” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 117 No. 10 (September 1917), p. 172 doi:10.1038 ...

Fortunately, Eastwood was able to sell his design to the Hume-Bennett Lumber Co., and the first multiple-arch dam was built in 1908 at Hume Lake Reservoir in the Sequoia National Forest.

Fortunately, Eastwood was able to sell his design to the Hume-Bennett Lumber Co., and the first multiple-arch dam was built in 1908 at Hume Lake Reservoir in the Sequoia National Forest.