RG 77 - Office of the Chief of Engineers, Civil Works Projects - Clark Hill Dam Project Files
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Clark Hill Dam Project Files, 1929-1954
National Archives Identifier 6112715
This series contains records related to the construction of the Clark Hill Dam on the Savannah River near Augusta, Georgia. Included in the series are construction logbooks, bills of material, storm reports, accident reports, daily construction reports, inspectors' reports, work data reports, aerial photographs, correspondence, seismic charts, invoices, bid abstracts, and work progress charts. There were several contracting companies involved with the dam's construction: Bateson-Stolte; Boyle Construction Company; W.T. Anderson; Cherokee Inc.; Atlantic Dredging; Michael Art Bronze Company; Allstates Inc.; Virginia Steel Company, Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railroad Company; Chicago Bridge and Iron Company; Logan Diving and Salvage Company; Michael Baker, Jones Core Drilling; Locke Construction Company; and Hardway Contracting Company.| Box | Folder | Description | Contract | Contractor | Start | End | Series |
| 1 | Shift Engineer Log Book | 10/5/1949 | 4/5/1950 | Book 1-5 | |||
| 1 | Construction Log for West Embankment | W-09-133-eng-921 | Boyle Construction Co. | 12/17/1946 | 5/12/1947 | Book 1 | |
| 1 | Construction Log for Access Railroad | W-09-133-eng-937 | W.T. Anderson | 7/29/1946 | 6/2/1947 | Book 1 | |
| 1 | Construction Log for East Embankment | W-09-133-eng-937 | Cherokee Inc. | 2/15/1947 | 5/6/1947 | Book 1 | |
| 1 | Construction Log for Diversion Channel Contract | W-09-133-eng-924 | Atlantic Dredging | 12/30/1946 | 5/7/1947 | Book 1 | |
| 2 | Shift Engineer Log Book | 4/6/1950 | 11/26/1953 | Book 6-10 | |||
| 2 | 1 | Index and Legend for tracing and print file number | 8/28/1953 | ||||
| 2 | 2 | Index to Field Books | |||||
| 2 | 3 | Bills of Material original and field corrected | W-09-133-eng-1076 | No. 1 | |||
| 3 | 1 | Bills of Material non-overflow blocks 38-40 | No. 2 | ||||
| 3 | 2 | Bills of Material non-overflow blocks 41-47 | No. 3 | ||||
| 3 | 3 | Bills of Material overflow blocks 8-12 | No. 4 | ||||
| 3 | 4 | Bills of Material overflow blocks 13-16 | No. 5 | ||||
| 3 | 5 | Bills of Material overflow blocks 17-20 | No. 6 | ||||
| 4 | 1 | Bills of Material Army Corps of Engineers | |||||
| 4 | 2 | Bills of Material overflow blocks 21-25 | No. 7 | ||||
| 4 | 3 | Bills of Material overflow blocks 26-29 | No. 8 | ||||
| 4 | 4 | Bills of Material stair tower block 7 | No. 9 | ||||
| 4 | 5 | Bills of Material elevator tower B1 30 | No. 10 | ||||
| 4 | 6 | Bills of Material intake block 31 | No. 11 | ||||
| 4 | 7 | Bills of Material intake block 32-33 | No. 12 | ||||
| 4 | 8 | Bills of Material intake block 34-35 | No. 13 | ||||
| 5 | 1 | Bills of Material intake blocks 36-37 | No. 14 | ||||
| 5 | 2 | Bills of Material buckets and blocks 7-27 | No. 15 | ||||
| 5 | 3 | Bills of Material buckets and blocks 28-30 | No. 16 | ||||
| 5 | 4 | Bills of Material spillway bridge spans 1-23 | No. 17 | ||||
| 5 | 5 | Bills of Material tailrace retaining wall A-E | No. 18 | ||||
| 5 | 6 | Bills of Material service bays 1-4 | No. 19 | ||||
| 5 | 7 | Bills of Material west retaining wall A-F | No. 20 | ||||
| 5 | 8 | Bills of Material Army Corps of Engineers units | DA-09-133-eng-525 | No. 1 | |||
| 6 | 1-3 | Correspondence Units 3-7 | DA-09-133-eng-525 | Bateson-Stolte | No.2-4 | ||
| 6 | 4 | Cement Contract Correspondence | DA-09-133-eng-525 | Bateson-Stolte | |||
| 6 | 5 | Formwork Correspondence | DA-09-133-eng-525 | Bateson-Stolte | |||
| 6 | 6 | Aggregate Tests | DA-09-133-eng-525 | Bateson-Stolte | |||
| 6 | 7 | Aggregate Crushed Stone | DA-09-133-eng-525 | Bateson-Stolte | |||
| 6 | 8 | Concrete | DA-09-133-eng-525 | Bateson-Stolte | |||
| 6 | 9 | Doors, Frames, etc. #1 | DA-09-133-eng-525 | Bateson-Stolte | |||
| 6 | 10 | Misc. and Structural Steel | DA-09-133-eng-525 | Bateson-Stolte | |||
| 6 | 11 | Welding, Welders, etc. | DA-09-133-eng-525 | Bateson-Stolte | |||
| 6 | 12 | Tools, spare parts, oil | DA-09-133-eng-525 | Bateson-Stolte | |||
| 6 | 13 | Steel | DA-09-133-eng-525 | Bateson-Stolte | |||
| 7 | 1 | Misc. Electrical Work correspondence | DA-09-133-eng-525 | Bateson-Stolte | |||
| 7 | 2 | Doors, frames, etc. #2 | DA-09-133-eng-525 | Bateson-Stolte | |||
| 7 | 3 | Plaster board | DA-09-133-eng-525 | Bateson-Stolte | |||
| 7 | 4 | Roads and streets | DA-09-133-eng-525 | Bateson-Stolte | |||
| 7 | 5 | Plant, misc. | DA-09-133-eng-525 | Bateson-Stolte | |||
| 7 | 6 | Filling and grading | DA-09-133-eng-525 | Bateson-Stolte | |||
| 7 | 7 | Access Railroad | DA-09-133-eng-525 | Bateson-Stolte | |||
| 7 | 8 | Sodding and planting | DA-09-133-eng-525 | Bateson-Stolte | |||
| 7 | 9 | Toilet enclosures, etc. | DA-09-133-eng-525 | Bateson-Stolte | |||
| 7 | 10-12 | Priority materials 1-3 | DA-09-133-eng-525 | Bateson-Stolte | |||
| 7 | 13 | Trestle | DA-09-133-eng-525 | Bateson-Stolte | |||
| 7 | 14 | Government furnished property | DA-09-133-eng-525 | Bateson-Stolte | |||
| 7 | 15 | Switchyard area | DA-09-133-eng-525 | Bateson-Stolte | |||
| 7 | 16 | Misc. Priority materials #4 | DA-09-133-eng-525 | Bateson-Stolte | |||
| 7 | 17 | Commercial Power | DA-09-133-eng-525 | Bateson-Stolte | |||
| 7 | 18-19 | Inspections and shop status reports | DA-09-133-eng-525 | Bateson-Stolte | |||
| 7 | 20 | Mill Certificates, wire | DA-09-133-eng-525 | Bateson-Stolte | |||
| 7 | 21 | Test certificates, concrete pipe | DA-09-133-eng-525 | Bateson-Stolte | |||
| 7 | 22 | Test draft tube unwatering pumps | DA-09-133-eng-525 | Bateson-Stolte | |||
| 7 | 23 | Tests lubricating oil systems | DA-09-133-eng-525 | Bateson-Stolte | |||
| 7 | 24 | Test compressed air and free air system | DA-09-133-eng-525 | Bateson-Stolte | |||
| 7 | 25 | Bateson-Stolte welders certification | DA-09-133-eng-525 | Bateson-Stolte | |||
| 7 | 26 | Relay test record - Clark Hill Powerhouse | DA-09-133-eng-525 | Bateson-Stolte | |||
| 7 | 27-28 | Government furnished materials | DA-09-133-eng-525 | Bateson-Stolte | |||
| 7 | 29 | Government furnished materials | DA-09-133-eng-524 | ||||
| 7 | 30 | Government furnished materials | DA-09-133-eng-1524 | ||||
| 7 | 31 | Government furnished materials | DA-09-133-eng-426 | ||||
| 7 | 32 | Government furnished materials | DA-09-133-eng-685 | ||||
| 8 | 1 | Inspector's Acceptance and shipping reports | DA-09-133-eng-525 | Bateson-Stolte | |||
| 8 | 2 | Inspectors Reports | DA-09-133-eng-525 | Michael Art Bronze Co. | |||
| 8 | 3 | Michael Art Bronze Co. Daily Logs | DA-09-133-eng-525 | Michael Art Bronze Co. | |||
| 8 | Weather or storm or seismic charts | DA-09-133-eng-525 | Bateson-Stolte | ||||
| 9 | Weather or storm or seismic charts | DA-09-133-eng-525 | |||||
| 10 | 1-16 | Storm Study Numbers 2-17 | DA-09-133-eng-525 | 2/1929 | 3/1943 | ||
| 10 | 17 | Storm Damages in South Atlantic States | DA-09-133-eng-525 | 8/5/1940 | 8/17/1940 | ||
| 10 | 18 | Storms reports | DA-09-133-eng-525 | 3/1938 | 3/1943 | ||
| 10 | 19 | Drawings for Powerhouse approved by Corps of Eng | DA-09-133-eng-525 | Bateson-Stolte | 1951 | 1951 | |
| 11 | 1-3 | Contract drawing and print communication 1-3 | DA-09-133-eng-525 | Bateson-Stolte | 11/1950 | 7/1952 | |
| 11 | 4 | Cofferdam Communications | DA-09-133-eng-525 | Bateson-Stolte | |||
| 11 | 5 | Drawings Communications | DA-09-133-eng-525 | Bateson-Stolte | |||
| 11 | 6 | Surveys communications | DA-09-133-eng-525 | Bateson-Stolte | |||
| 11 | Aerial photographs AMS-5-M6 | 5V14 - 6V249, 11V75-103 | |||||
| 12 | Aerial photographs 1A-V | 232 - 248 | |||||
| 12 | Aerial photographs AMS-5-M6 | 7V62 - 8V36 | |||||
| 13 | Photographs | DA-09-133-eng-525 | |||||
| 13 | 1 | Estimates of cost | DA-09-133-eng-525 | Bateson-Stolte | |||
| 13 | 2 | Final Quantities | DA-09-133-eng-525 | Bateson-Stolte | |||
| 13 | 3 | Acceptance of work | DA-09-133-eng-525 | Bateson-Stolte | |||
| 13 | 4 | Subcontractors | DA-09-133-eng-525 | Bateson-Stolte | |||
| 13 | 5 | Personnel | DA-09-133-eng-525 | Bateson-Stolte | |||
| 13 | 6 | Accident Reports | DA-09-133-eng-525 | Bateson-Stolte | |||
| 13 | 7 | Labor, Payrolls | DA-09-133-eng-525 | Bateson-Stolte | |||
| 13 | 8 | Reports | DA-09-133-eng-525 | Bateson-Stolte | |||
| 13 | 9 | Conferences, meetings | DA-09-133-eng-525 | Bateson-Stolte | |||
| 13 | 10 | Daily Reports Railroad approach to switchyard | Bateson-Stolte | ||||
| 13 | 11 | Daily Reports East Parking Area | Bateson-Stolte | 4/6/1948 | 4/7/1948 | ||
| 13 | 12 | Daily Reports West parking apron | Allstates Inc. | 7/15/1948 | 7/28/1948 | ||
| 13 | 13 | Daily Reports | Allstates Inc. | 1/4/1949 | 3/8/1949 | ||
| 13 | 14 | Inspector's Diary Second Stage Cofferdam | |||||
| 13 | 15 | Daily Reports West Approach and Quarry Stripping | Allstates Inc. | ||||
| 13 | 16 | Steel Tests Virginia Steel Company | W-09-133-eng-1076 | Virginia Steel Co. | |||
| 13 | 17 | Sales Tax Records | W-09-133-eng-1076 | Allstates Inc. | |||
| 13 | 18 | Flag poles | W-09-133-eng-1076 | Allstates Inc. | |||
| 13 | 19 | Subcontracts | W-09-133-eng-1076 | ||||
| 13 | 20 | Claims | W-09-133-eng-1076 | ||||
| 13 | 21 | Vouchers, Invoices | W-09-133-eng-1076 | ||||
| 13 | 22 | Inspection of Equipment, plant | W-09-133-eng-1076 | ||||
| 13 | 23 | Meetings, Conferences | W-09-133-eng-1076 | ||||
| 13 | 24 | Handrailing | W-09-133-eng-1076 | ||||
| 13 | 25 | Hardware, nails | W-09-133-eng-1076 | ||||
| 13 | 26 | Personnel | W-09-133-eng-1076 | ||||
| 13 | 27 | Aluminum, metalwork | W-09-133-eng-1076 | ||||
| 13 | 28 | Quarry Inspector's Diary | W-09-133-eng-1076 | 7/1949 | 6/1951 | ||
| 14 | 1 | Quarry Inspector's Diary and Reports | W-09-133-eng-1076 | 6/1948 | 6/1949 | ||
| 14 | 2 | Screen Analysis of aggregate | W-09-133-eng-1076 | 10/1948 | 2/1951 | ||
| 15 | 1 | Quarry Inspector's Reports | W-09-133-eng-1076 | 8/1948 | 11/1950 | ||
| 15 | 2 | Preparatory Work Data | W-09-133-eng-1076 | 9/25/1948 | 9/25/1948 | ||
| 15 | 3 | Preparatory Work Data | W-09-133-eng-1076 | 10/25/1948 | 10/25/1948 | ||
| 16 | 1 | Preparatory Work Data | W-09-133-eng-1076 | 11/26/1948 | 11/26/1948 | ||
| 16 | 2 | Mill Certificates | W-09-133-eng-1076 | Tennessee Coal, Iron, and railroad Co. | |||
| 16 | 3 | Shop Measurments | W-09-133-eng-1076 | ||||
| 16 | 4 | Progress, Reports, Stoplogs, etc. | W-09-133-eng-1076 | ||||
| 16 | 5 | Field Welding Certificates | W-09-133-eng-1076 | Chicago Bridge & Iron Co. | |||
| 16 | 6 | Welders Certificates | W-09-133-eng-1076 | ||||
| 16 | 7 | Inspection | W-09-133-eng-1076 | ||||
| 16 | 8 | Inspectors acceptance reports | W-09-133-eng-1076 | ||||
| 16 | 9 | Preparatory Work Data | W-09-133-eng-1076 | 5/14/1948 | 5/14/1948 | ||
| 17 | 1 | Preparatory Work Data | W-09-133-eng-1076 | 6/14/1948 | 6/14/1948 | ||
| 17 | 2 | Mixing Plant Inspector's Report | 10/1948 | 3/1950 | |||
| 17 | 3 | Concrete Placing report cards Blocks 1-16 | W-09-133-eng-1075 | Allstate Constructors Inc. | |||
| 18 | 1 | Mixing Plant Inspector's Report | 5-1950 | 12/1951 | |||
| 18 | 2 | Portland Cement shipping and acceptance reports | Allstate Constructors Inc. | 10/1948 | 1/1952 | ||
| 19 | 1 | Portland Cement Tests | 1948 | 1951 | |||
| 19 | 2 | Circular charts or graphs | 1951 | 1952 | |||
| 19 | 3 | Prefabricated Buildings | DA-09-133-civeng-56-285 | ||||
| 19 | 4 | Raising of bulkhead | DA-09-133-eng-1900 | Logan Diving and Salvage Co. | |||
| 19 | 5 | Lease of US Barge #19 | W-09-133-eng-1536 | Allstate Constructors | |||
| 19 | 6 | Slope Protection | |||||
| 19 | 7 | Revision of Project Cost Estimate | 3/31/1954 | 3/31/1954 | |||
| 19 | 8 | Misc. Budget Estimates | 1948 | 1952 | |||
| 19 | 9 | Hydrological and hydraulic data files | FY 1955 | FY 1955 | |||
| 19 | 10 | Contractor's Log, Monthly Time Book, Weekly time b | Michael Baker | 1948 | 1948 | ||
| 19 | 11 | Relocation: Highways, railroads, utilities | 3/25/1948 | 3/25/1948 | |||
| 19 | 12 | Payroll and Misc. Correspondence | W-09-133-eng-921 | 1947 | 1948 | ||
| 19 | 13 | Misc. Correspondence West Embankment | |||||
| 19 | 14 | Invitation for bids | W-09-133-eng-934 | 1947 | 1947 | ||
| 19 | 15 | Misc. Correspondence | W-09-133-eng-934 | Jones Core Drilling | |||
| 19 | 16 | Work Progress Report | 4/1947 | 5/1947 | |||
| 19 | 17 | Sub-surface explorations, Georgia Quarry Site | W-09-133-eng-934 | Jones Core Drilling | |||
| 19 | 18 | Contract | W-09-133-eng-934 | Locke Construction Co. | |||
| 19 | 19 | Quarry site explorations | W-09-133-eng-934 | Jones Core Drilling | |||
| 20 | 1 | Aerial photographs | 11V.27 - 186 | ||||
| 20 | 2 | Aerial photographs | 1V.1 - 92 | ||||
| 20 | 3 | Aerial photographs | 2V.10 - 245 | ||||
| 20 | 4 | Aerial photographs | 3V.13 -240 | ||||
| 20 | 5 | Aerial photographs | 4V.8-222 | ||||
| 20 | 6 | Aerial photographs | 8V.57-88 | ||||
| 21 | 1 | Aerial photographs | 8V.99 - 231 | ||||
| 21 | 2 | Aerial photographs | 9V.15 - 154 | ||||
| 21 | 3 | Aerial photographs | 10V.1 - 232 | ||||
| 21 | 4 | Preparatory Work Data | W-09-133-eng-1076 | 6/30/1948 | 6/30/1948 | ||
| 21 | 5 | Preparatory Work Data | W-09-133-eng-1076 | 7/24/1948 | 7/24/1948 | ||
| 22 | 1 | Preparatory Work Data | W-09-133-eng-1076 | 8/25/1948 | 8/25/1948 | ||
| 22 | 2 | Georgia Quarry Exploration Daily Reports | 2/1947 | 5/1947 | |||
| 22 | 3 | Construction of East Embankment | Cherokee, Inc. | ||||
| 22 | 4 | East Embankment Abstract of bids | |||||
| 22 | 5 | East Embankment Progress Reports & Correspondence | W-09-133-eng-937 | ||||
| 22 | 6 | Construction of 1st stage of cofferdam | W-09-133-eng-941 | Hardway Contracting Co. | |||
| 22 | 7 | Cofferdam Daily Reports | W-09-133-eng-941 | Hardway Contracting Co. | 11/1947 | 12/1947 | |
| 23 | 1 | Cofferdam Daily Reports | W-09-133-eng-941 | 4/1948 | 8/1948 | ||
| 23 | 2 | Cofferdam Daily Reports | W-09-133-eng-941 | 5/1947 | 10/1947 | ||
| 23 | 3 | Cofferdam Contract | W-09-133-eng-941 | Hardway Contracting Co. | |||
| 23 | 4 | Clark Hill Project Progress charts | |||||
| 23 | 5 | West embankment | W-09-133-eng-921 | Boyle Construction Co. |