WATER STORAGE IN THE GENESEE VALLEY.
Surveys are being made under the superintendence of New York State Engineer Adams and George W. Rafter, of Roch ester, N. Y., with a view to making that city and the entire Genesee valley in time one of the greatest manufacturing sections of the United States. The scheme is the outcome of previous investigations made on the subject of the proposed construction of the Mount Morris storage dam.
The surveys being made by a corps of engineers under Mr. Rafter are for the construction of a dam at a point a short distance above the upper falls at Portage, and the lines now being run embrace the area of the valley for a distance of about twenty miles, and will form the base of a plane-table survey between the falls and Oramel. The opportunities thus offered for the establishment of a much greater water power, it is claimed, far exceed the advantages offered by the construction of the dam twenty miles below.
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