Instruments installed on local dam for safety field tests
Published: Aug. 14, 2017 at 4:43 PM CDT
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will begin installing instrumentation on August 21 on the Stillhouse Hollow Lake Dam for field safety tests.
“The Stillhouse Hollow Lake Dam is functioning as designed but these field tests are important to ensure future work is accomplished in the most efficient and effective means possible,” said Col. Calvin C. Hudson II, commander, Fort Worth District.
Crews will be on site for about 45 days.
Two crews will construct access roads on the downstream side of the dam near the outlet works conduit and at each abutment and the third will drill, take samples and install monitoring equipment at those sites.
The dam was built on the Lampasas River in the 1960s and the reservoir was officially impounded in 1968.
