National Program for Inspection of Non-Federal Dams. New Britain Reservoir Dam (CT 00661), Connecticut Coastal Basin, Wolcott, Connecticut, New Britain Reservoir Dike (CT 00680), Connecticut Coastal Basin, Southington, Connecticut

摘要

The project, built in 1904, consists of an earthfill dam, a spillway and an earthfill dike. The total length of the project is 760 feet. Both earthfill structures have a concrete corewall which is founded on bedrock. The spillway, located 60 feet from the left side of the dam is a 30 foot long rubble masonry weir with a 12 to 16 inch thick concrete cover and concrete training walls. The outlet facilities are a 30 inch diameter low-level outlet and a gatehouse located on the downstream toe of the dam. The gate valve is operable. The dam is judged to be in fair condition and the dike to be in poor condition. No evidence of instability of the dam embankment or appurtenant structures was observed. There are areas requiring attention, maintenance and monitoring, such as seepage problems which may occur or may be occuring with the new water surface now to the top of the recently installed stop-planks, which is very close to or higher than the corewall. No evidence of instability of the dike embankment was observed. However, brush and trees on the crest and downstream slope could cause seepage through the embankment. The spillway capacity with the stop-planks removed is 1120 cfs or 23% of the routed test flood outflow.