Use Google advanced search to get around the shortcomings of the internal search.bikehikeskifish said:Can't search on "dam" -- too short, and searching for nineteen mile brook gives hundreds of hits.
My recollection (from way back) is similar to bryan's: water supply for the hotel at Great Glen.What is/was the concrete dam and structure (pump house?) on 19MBT used for?
Hope that's fire suppression water and not drinking water! Lots of dirty hikers swim in that water before heading back to the trailhead.DougPaul said:My recollection (from way back) is similar to bryan's: water supply for the hotel at Great Glen.
Doug
bryan said:as i understand it water from 19 mile is used for the fire system at the great glen complex. periodically they actually go up there with an excavator (via the forest road on the other side of the brook) and dig out the pool behind the dam. was surprised a few years back hiking up 19 mile hearing the sounds of heavy machinery and found they were digging it out. this was summer 05. made a big difference as sediment had piled up to make the pool quite shallow.
bryan
That is quite possible, although back it the days of the grand hotels they might not have worried about such things.leaf said:Hope that's fire suppression water and not drinking water! Lots of dirty hikers swim in that water before heading back to the trailhead.
Both this road and the former Aqueduct Path are part of the Great Glen Trails complex. Hikers can use them free in summer last time I heard (donations accepted) but mtn bikers pay a fee. In winter everybody pays.Mike said:I have seen the forest road many times. Does anyone know where the road begins and if hikers are allowed to use it?
Dr. Dasypodidae said:As a hutperson in the late 1960s, we used the Aquaduct Path for packing into Carter Notch Hut (Cata), where the joke was an upstream fall off the narrow plank (2 x 8?) bridging the weir in the dam would be wet but a downstream fall would be deadly (none of us ever fell there, as far as I know ). The trail was closed by the Glen House and USFS/AMC folks in the 1970s, I believe.
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