. Annual report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York . dam and theleakage and overflow from the old wooden dam was easily carried by the two five-footopenings. Single-disk flume gates made by Eddy Valve Co. are bolted to the pipesby flanged connections and regulate the discharge from the reservoir. Each gate-wellis provided with two 3 x 5-foot sluice openings, controlled by wooden slide gates andprotected by steel gratings. Owing to the difficulty of operating the slidegates on account of the excessive friction under full head of water, provision is made
. Annual report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York . dam and theleakage and overflow from the old wooden dam was easily carried by the two five-footopenings. Single-disk flume gates made by Eddy Valve Co. are bolted to the pipesby flanged connections and regulate the discharge from the reservoir. Each gate-wellis provided with two 3 x 5-foot sluice openings, controlled by wooden slide gates andprotected by steel gratings. Owing to the difficulty of operating the slidegates on account of the excessive friction under full head of water, provision is madefor filling the gate-wells by means of six-inch pipes built through the walls of eachwell. A suitable superstructure with masonry side walls and shingle roof enclosesthe operating mechanisms of all the gates, as well as the apparatus for indicating theopening of the main gates. The maximum discharge through the two discharge pipeswith full reservoir is estimated at 1,400 cubic feet per second, although it is notexpected to discharge at a greater rate than about 1,000 cubic feet per SLUICE WAY FOR LOGS. ■ FISHERIES, GAME AND FORESTS. 403 LOGWAYS. Inasmuch as there is a large amount of valuable spruce timber still standing in theforests adjacent to Indian Lake and its tributaries, it became necessary to provide alogway for floating out the logs each spring. The main logway is fifteen feet in width,with the bottom ten feet below the spillway level, and is situated just west of the gatehouse. Heavy buttresses on each side carry the pressure of the water against thelogway when closed, as well as form a gangway for the logs after passing the logway is controlled by means of forty-five 4 x 8-inch spruce timbers or needlesabout twenty feet long, placed edgewise to the water in the reservoir. The needlesare operated by a block and from a gallows-frame above the needle-frame. For the purpose of floating out old snags or logs when the water is at orab
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