Hatchtown
Dam shortly
after it
broke.
EFFEL RIGGS
The Failure of the Hatchtown Dam. 1914 BY W I L L I A M M . T I M M I N S
T
failed on May 25, 1914, at about 8:00 P.M. and flooded the Sevier Valley as far down river as Junction in Piute County. HE DAM AT H A T C H , U T A H ,
Mr. Timmins is an assistant to the vice-president of Community and Economic Development at the University of Utah.
