Engineering foundation: Arch dam to be tested to destruction

More than $70,000 has been raised by a special committee of the Engineering Foundation, and, toward the settlement of a scientific problem centuries old, this will be applied to the erection of an arch dam on the Stevenson Creek, a tributary of the San Joaquin River, about sixty miles from Fresno, California. The dam will be 100 ft. high and both American and European engineers are aiding in the plans for its erection. It is to represent in actual structure plans “new to engineering effort” and approximately $100,000 will be spent to determine the validity of this concrete arch design. In the execution of this investigation, the American Society of Civil Engineers will act in cooperation with the United States Bureau of Reclamation, the States of California and Oregon, the City of San Francisco, Los Angeles County, power companies, irrigation districts, universities and individual engineers.