June 4, 2012
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Dam maintenance work to begin at West Point
WEST POINT – Maintenance work on the
more than 100-year-old Lusk Reservoir Dam at the US Military Academy at
West Point will begin shortly and is expected to be completed this fall.
The contract for the $868,000 job was awarded to Cutting Edge Group of
Lake George.
The work on the dam that was built in 1895 to create Lusk Reservoir to
provide drinking water for the academy will include replacing mortar between
stones to maintain the structural integrity of the dam, valve work, and
upgrading the dam’s over 100-year-old emergency outlet pipe.
The dam holds back 78 million gallons of water when water is flowing over
the spillway.
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