 Contract negotiations between this district, the Price River Water Conservation District, and the United States were completed in 1943.Construction of the new storage works by the W.W. Clyde Company of Springville, Utah, was undertaken during World War II to prevent possible flood damage to the main line of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, the State highway, the telephone and telegraph lines, and the coal mines, all of which were important to the war effort.The new dam was completed June 15, 1946.