General
view of excavation area for installation of Taintor Gates, looking
west. September 24, 1957. The gates were installed after the
Flood of 1955 raised concerns about the possibility of high water
damaging the dam. (Photo Courtesy of Blakeslee Arpaia Chapman,
Inc., Branford. Their parent company, C. W. Blakeslee & Sons
built the Stevenson Dam in 1917.)