Projects
Underway in Basin Flood
Gate Replacement at Morris Sheppard Dam
Authority crews are gradually replacing all nine flood gates at Morris Sheppard
Dam at Lake Possum Kingdom. The dam, completed in 1941, has nine steel "roof
weir" crest
gates, each of which is about 74-feet long and 13-feet high. Sections of
replacement gates are built alongside the dam and are lowered by crane
onto the dam to be attached. A zinc coating is applied to protect each
new gate from corrosive elements. The flood gate replacement project started in October
1995 and is scheduled to be complete by December 2006.
