Sugar Loaf Dam is a dam in Lake County of mid-Colorado, 4 miles west of Leadville. It has a height of 135 feet feet and is over 2,000 feet long at its crest, impounding the Lake Fork of the Arkansas River near its headwaters. The earthen dam was one of five reservoir dams completed from 1965 to 1968 by the United States Bureau of Reclamation as pa…Sugar Loaf Dam is a dam in Lake County of mid-Colorado, 4 miles west of Leadville. It has a height of 135 feet feet and is over 2,000 feet long at its crest, impounding the Lake Fork of the Arkansas River near its headwaters. The earthen dam was one of five reservoir dams completed from 1965 to 1968 by the United States Bureau of Reclamation as part of the larger water diversion project named the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project. The project was authorized in 1962 by President Kennedy and was completed in 1981.
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