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White Memorial
Bantam Lake and White Memorial Foundation
Bantam Lake benefits greatly from its North Bay falling within the 4000 acres of protected White Memorial Foundation land. Many of Bantam Lake’s most charming homes exist on land that the owners lease back from White Memorial Foundation on an annual basis. This protected North Bay of the lake is the location of the former summer lake house of Connecticut’s popular 71st Governor John Rowland and his wife Patty.
The Bantam Lake house of Connecticut’s 71st Governor
The White Memorial Conservation Center, an Environmental Education Center and Nature Museum, is located in the heart of the 4000-acre White Memorial Foundation in the hills of northwestern Connecticut.
In 1964 the Center was established in the former home of Alain White and his sister, May. Their vision and generosity led to the formation of the White Memorial Foundation in 1913. A non-profit tax exempt organization, the Center was incorporated to add the goal of Education to the Conservation, Research, and Recreation purposes for which the foundation was formed.
The Conservation Center operates a Nature Museum with exhibits focusing on the interpretation of local natural history, conservation, and ecology, as well as a nature store and dormitory and classroom facilities on the property extend the opportunities for visitors to interact with the natural world.
The outdoor arena includes the wildlife sanctuary maintained by the White Memorial Foundation. The Foundation today comprises 4000 acres of fields, water, and woodlands, trails, campground, and boating facility and special areas for large outdoor educational and recreational gatherings.
White Memorial Map
White Memorial Bantam Lake
Culture
Aqueduct Tunnel Under Bantam Lake - 1925
This article appeared in "My Country" published in the summer of 1997
by the My Country Society, Inc., Litchfield, CT., USA
In this history of Bantam Lake, the part of the tunnel story telling about the aqueduct being blasted under Bantam Lake was one of the most interesting phases This tunnel was built between the years 1921 to 1926 and ran from the Shepaug River to the Morris Reservoir which had just been completed.
Depth soundings along the originally planned route under North Bay, using diamond drill bits, were made to determine the position or level of the rock layer under North Bay. In part one of the Bantam Lake story, it was stated that the glacial scour in the pre-Pleistocene history had made a deep gorge near the narrows. In the 1921 boring tests, it was found that there was a deep bowl under North Bay, making, the rock bottom about 100 feet below the surface of the water. This deep basin was filled with mud, silt, and sand deposited from the inlet of the Bantam River for over a million years to a thickness of 100 feet.
Since the depth of this deep bowl was too close to the planned tunnel depth, it was decided that the direction of the tunnel under the lake must be changed. Part of this decision was to route the tunnel so that the distance blasted under Bantam Lake was kept to a minimum. The new location following the direction of south 350 degrees 46' east, went from Camp Lenox Point to Marsh Point covering a distance under water of only 1125 feet, less the 1/4 mile, as shown in Map 10. The map shows the detail of the tunnel location and the date and distance penetrated between September and December of 1925. The Litchfield-Morris town line shows that the tunnel under the lake is mostly located in Litchfield with less than 50 feet actually under the lake in Morris.
The tunnel was designed to be about 7 feet across the bottom and at the center of the top the, height was to be 7-1/2 feet. The bottom of the tunnel was made as flat as possible so that a 24 inch gauge rail track could be laid as the tunnel progressed at about ten feet a day. After each blast in the morning and at night, the track was extended to take out the debris and muck. After a car was loaded, it was pushed by hand to a reload point onto a cart train of about 10 cars. These cars were pulled by a battery powered locomotive which pulled the load out of the tunnel to a dump site.
Since the tunnel was over seven miles long, this mode of debris removal was very necessary. The digging and blasting of the tunnel started in December 1921 at each end of the planned route from Woodville on the Shepaug River to the reservoirs in East Morris. The last blast that connected the opposite ends of the tunnel was discharged on September 23, 1926, taking five years to cut through the 38,236 feet or 7.24 miles of rock to complete the aqueduct tunnel. The outlet at the present time has been diverted into the Pitch Reservoir that was built in 1944.
From the Woodville entrance to the outlet the natural drop is 62 feet making the flow gravity fed. This means that there is little or no maintenance along the route. The massive rock strata was almost solid and interlocked making it unnecessary to support the roof line. The bottom of the tunnel was finished off with concrete to insure a smooth flow of water through the tunnel, which has carried as much as 25 million gallons of water a day under the lake.
In the years of service no known problems have occurred, and to the relief of Bantam Lake residents, the lake has not been drained by a leak.
Towns
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