This is a view atop the Tuttle Creek Dam separating the Tuttle Creek Lake and spillway (5 miles north of Manhattan, Kansas). The spillway is twin conduits, or tubes, that spill control water into the river. The river is the Big Blue that confluences with the Kansas River. On this day, it was cold and windy giving a bluish haze to the far off southern horizon and hilly landscape.
Back in the early 1950s, the beginning construction caused a stir and dam controversy among the people in the valleys because towns were moved and the valleys flooded for the Tuttle Creek Lake. To read the history by the US Army Corps of Engineers: Tuttle Creek
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What is the building in the far distance (top left hand corner)?
You must clock up some millage each week to take all these great photos.
Hi Anna, in my nebourhood there is a great debate going on at the moment about Daming our local Mary River, needless to say huge number of farmers will lose their homes and destiny of the river is another story…
I like the blues in this…
Hi Yesbuts. Your question was answered in the next post called Kansas Skyscraper. Yes, we do clock up some mileage.
Hi Robert. Yes, it changes farmland and towns and the way of life when a dam is built. It also changes the ecosystem and lay of land. Dams being built have mostly been debated and caused controversy for the sake of flood control.
Hi burstmode. Thanks!
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