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Saratoga Springs outlines $9 million Loughberry Lake dam rehabilitation
Summary
City engineers presented plans to stabilize and upgrade the earthen Loughberry Lake dam, a roughly $9 million project led by Schnabel Engineering with Wind Construction as low bidder and New York State DEC oversight.
City of Saratoga Springs engineers on Tuesday presented plans to repair and modernize the Loughberry Lake dam, a roughly $9,000,000 project intended to resolve spillway and embankment deficiencies identified by state regulators.
The presentation, led by James Salloway, the city engineer, and Matt Zeno, assistant city engineer, described a program of upstream slope stabilization, enlarged spillway conduits, a new intake structure and other measures designed to meet current New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) standards. The city expects construction to address insufficient spillway capacity and embankment stability cited in a 2017 DEC inspection that reclassified the structure as an intermediate-hazard dam.
City engineers said…
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