03 Saturday Dec 2016
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Canyon View Park located in Provo Canyon and is owned and managed by Utah County. Â This park gives broad access to Provo River for fishing, play, or skipping rock. Â In addition to several covered picnic tables, Canyon View Park features a nature trail that criss-crosses the river and has several signs explaining plant and animal life. Â It is also a very popular birding spot.
14 Monday Nov 2016
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On the hill just above here, a large gravel screening operation was set up to provide sand and gravel for the construction of new footings and the pressure box for the wooden flume. Â A reservoir was later constructed here.
12 Saturday Nov 2016
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Much of the 1904 Olmsted Flume construction was done by hand. Â When the wooden flume was replaced in 1917, equipment of the latest technology was used. Â Compare the methods used then to the technology today.
12 Saturday Nov 2016
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historic, Olmsted, Orem, Power Plant, Power Plants, Provo, Provo Canyon, utah, utah county
Let There Be Light
The Olmsted Power Plant, a historic structure, was constructed in 1904 by a predecessor to Rocky Mountain Power and is still in use today. Â The plant generates power from water diverted from the Provo River. Â During the last 100 years, water has reached the plant by both wooden flume and steel pipeline.
23 Sunday Oct 2016
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One of the historic marker plaques in Provo Canyon.
Riverfront Office Property – Screening Structure.
A screening structure once stood across the river. Â This building was manned 24 hours a day. Â The main road up Provo Canyon passed this site and went under the flume.
In 1952, the wooden flume was replaced with a steel pipeline. Â A flow-measuring structure and sand traps were connected to the building. Â Today’s automated trash-rakes at the diversion remove debris, eliminating the need for this building and 24-hour occupancy.
23 Sunday Oct 2016
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One of the historic marker plaques in Provo Canyon.
Dam Diversions – Dams on the Provo River.
There have been four dams that have diverted water into the Olmsted Flume and Pipeline. Â The remains of one of the dams can still be seen in the river below where you now stand. Â At one time, the wooden flume crossed the river here and then crossed again just downstream.
23 Sunday Oct 2016
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One of the historic marker plaques in Provo Canyon.
Good, Better, Best! – Inlet Structures
The inlet structure across the river was completed in 1995. Â Prior to that, there have been three different inlet structures that have diverted water from the river, each of them more complex in their construction.
12 Wednesday Oct 2016
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Provo River runs through the center of this beautiful mountain park. It is also a very popular park to access the Provo River Parkway Trail and the Bonneville Shoreline Trail for a leisurely walk in the mountains or for some serious marathon training.
18 Thursday Aug 2016
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I’ve gone to Stewart Falls several different ways, if you happen to know someone in he gated community up there it’s a simple quarter mile hike, other popular trails range between 2 and 4 miles and are very nice. The Tram is also popular to get close-ish.
04 Wednesday May 2016
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There’s not much left of Christmas City in Provo Canyon, on the old township maps, a Christmas City graveyard is located on the south side of the entrance to Provo Canyon. It was an old mining area and is now a gravel pit.
