Skedaddle Creek. In the fall of 1889 construction began on 140 foot tall dam. Little did any one know that the winter of 1889-90 would be one of the most severe on record. By the end of January 1890 it was estimated that were over ten feet of snow on the higher slopes of Skedaddle. In February a warm storm hit, melting the snow and with it a wall of water one hundred feet wide and ten feet deep. It was the first of a series of storms, that eventually caused the dam to collapse.

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