Public works . 00 per acre. Where the owner wouldnot sell for a reasonable figure, condemnation suits,twenty-two in all, were filed. As soon as title hadbeen acquired to the land, the houses and timberwere removed at a cost of $100,000 more. The tim-ber felled was given away for firewood. The original water supply dam raised the waterto 595 feet above sea level. The new dam has raisedit seventeen feet higher to elevation 612. For thesake of safety and to provide for the future, the 615contour was taken as the high water mark and every-thing within this was acquired, including portions ofmore t
Public works . 00 per acre. Where the owner wouldnot sell for a reasonable figure, condemnation suits,twenty-two in all, were filed. As soon as title hadbeen acquired to the land, the houses and timberwere removed at a cost of $100,000 more. The tim-ber felled was given away for firewood. The original water supply dam raised the waterto 595 feet above sea level. The new dam has raisedit seventeen feet higher to elevation 612. For thesake of safety and to provide for the future, the 615contour was taken as the high water mark and every-thing within this was acquired, including portions ofmore than sixty productive farms and whole grovesof timber. The Sangamon valley and feedingstreams had to be prepared for flooding and wherepublic property such as roads and bridges would beinundated by the water of the reservoir, these wereraised or relocated. The bridges were raised fifteenfeet above the surface of the lake. The cost ofchanging bridges and approaches and constructingnew roads reached $500,000 CONCRETE WEIR SECTION OF DAM, OVERFLOWING FROM RAINS A FEW WEEKS AFTER COMPLETION. May 13, 1922 PUBLIC WORKS 337 THE PROJECT DESCRIBED The project, now practically completed, was toconstruct across the Sangamon river a dam, elevenhundred feet of which was of earth with a con-crete core and 550 feet was a concrete spillway thirtyfeet high. This dams the river back for thirteenmiles and gives an average width of half a mile tothe reservoir. In addition to the unlimted supply of water, boat-ing and fishing is provided. Beautiful driveways arebeing laid out along the shores of the picturesquelake. Shore land is being purchased for summercottages, camps and clubs, some choice tracts beingheld by owners as high as $2,000 per acre. Manyhandsome residences will be built. The city parksystem has been extended and much of tlie landacquired by the water company will be utilized forpark purposes, 2,600 acres in all being added to thepresent tracts, including miles of beautiful wood
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