The Schoharie Reservoir

Intake House

Project Planning

• Location of the project
• Infrastructure for public use and construction support
• Supplying construction materials
• Stream control during construction
• Intake House
• Shandaken Tunnel
• Preparation of the reservoir basin
• Construction of the dam

Intake House, aka Shandaken Tunnel gatehouse

• located on west side of reservoir
• center of water operations since 1924
• sluice-gates screen the water keeping flotsam out of the gatehouse
• electric derrick and grapple remove debris from channel
• plumbing fixtures ordered in 1922
• 4 massive castings that act as splitters
• on the right is assembled hydraulic cylinders and valves to open and close flow hydraulically
• assembled pipes with hydraulic shut-off valves were laid in a sub-basement