Kinzua and Conewango Proposals Map
1 2018-08-17T15:10:53-07:00 Dana Reijerkerk 3c44fb85ab096c2290175e81dd4f16f0002a41e0 30861 4 Arthur Morgan's Conewango Plan would have involved building two dams, one on the Seneca Nation's Allegany Territory and one along Conewango Creek. The reservoir would have been by Conewango Creek and have diverted flood waters to Lake Erie. Map not drawn to scale plain 2018-08-21T02:03:49-07:00 New York History Journal 2018-08-17 cartographic NAD-012 reservoirs (water distribution structures), flood dams, native peoples reservations, rivers, independent sovereign nations Seneca Nation Archives Department Seneca-Iroquois National Museum eng Kinzua and Conewango Proposals. Arthur Morgan's Conewango Plan would have involved building two dams, one on the Seneca Nation's Allegany Territory and one along Conewango Creek. The reservoir therefore, would have been by Conewango Creek and diverted water to Lake Erie. Original Caption: Western New York and Pennsylvania, showing the location (not drawn to scale) of the Conewango Reservoir and its two dams and of the Kinzua Dam. Map by Adele L. Johnson. print, electronic image/jpeg digitized other analog languageOfCataloging authority = "iso639-2b"; dcTerm:language recordCreation Date encoding = "w3cdtf"; dcTerm:date subject authority = "aat"; dcTerm:subject subject authority = "tgn"; dcTerm:coverage dateCreated encoding= "w3cdtf"; dcTerm:temporal Record has been transformed into MODS from the original accession record. Metadata originally created in a locally modified version of qualified Dublin Core. New York (state), Erie, Lake (lake), Conewango Creek (creek), Cattaraugus (county), Allegany Reservation, Pennsylvania (state) This record was created by Dana Reijerkerk. Aaron D. Purcell (writer) Adele L. Johnson (artist) New York History Journal, The New York State Historical Association (publisher) 1 hand-drawn map; Originally published in a "The Engineering of Forever: Arthur E. Morgan, the Seneca Indians, and the Kinzua Dam" (1997), Purcell, A.D., New York History, New York State Historical Association, 309-336. doi: 141.211.4.224 Dana Reijerkerk 3c44fb85ab096c2290175e81dd4f16f0002a41e0This page is referenced by:
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The Legal Battle for Kinzua
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In 1957 Congress appropriated funding for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to construct Kinzua Dam, thus beginning a legal battle between the Seneca Nation and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. From 1957 to 1962 the Seneca Nation and allies to our Seneca people lobbied Congress to prevent Kinzua Dam from being constructed.
After it was announced that Kinzua Dam was to be built, President Cornelius hired Arthur E. Morgan as the Seneca Nation's chief engineer and adviser. Morgan collaborated with our Seneca people to create an alternative dam site and flood control plan, one that would not require the relocation of our Seneca communities on our Allegany Territory.
The Conewango Plan, devised by Morgan, would divert flood waters from Ohi:yo' through the Conewango basin and into Lake Erie. The Army Corps of Engineers dismissed the Conewango Plan.
In September of 1957 the Seneca Nation requested that an independent third party survey and study of the Kinzua Dam and Conewango Reservoir proposals be done to provide a second opinion. The report produced by the New York City firm Tipetts-Abbett-McCarthy-Stratton firm supported the viewpoint of the Army Corps of Engineers that the Conewango Plan was not better than the Kinzua site plan.
On May 25, 1960 Congress passed an appropriations bill to construct the dam. Construction began later that year.
