Soldier Creek Dam

Soldier Creek Dam is an earthen dam on the Strawberry River, located within the Uinta National Forest in southern Wasatch County, Utah, United States.

Description
The dam forms Strawberry Reservoir and is a principal feature of the Strawberry Valley Project, part of the Bonneville Unit of the Central Utah Project. The dam and reservoir were built and operated by the United States Bureau of Reclamation (USBR).

Constructed between 1970 and 1974, the dam replaced the earlier Strawberry Dam, built slightly upstream of the current site from 1911 to 1913. The new dam increased the storage capacity of Strawberry Reservoir from 283000 acre feet to more than 1120000 acre feet. The primary purpose of the dam is to store flows from the upper Strawberry River, as well as water diverted from eight tributaries of the Duchesne River, for diversion through the Strawberry Tunnel to supplement water supplies in the Utah Valley. Water from the Strawberry Tunnel eventually outlets into Sixth Water Canyon, the Diamond Fork (stream) and finally the Spanish Fork (river) before flowing into Utah Lake.

Soldier Creek Dam is a zoned earthfill embankment 272 ft high and 1290 ft long, with a structural volume of 3206000 yd3. Water releases from the dam are controlled by outlet works with a bypass capacity of 2830 cuft/s. The dam controls runoff from a drainage area of 170 mi2.