CAUSEY
Earth, not concrete, and not a state park
Reclamation names this dam in one sentence about faults alongside Lost Creek, East Canyon and Pineview. It also publishes a coordinate for it nine hundred metres from where three other agencies put it.
Causey Dam is a zoned earthfill embankment. Reclamation's data sheet calls it a "zoned earthfill structure" , its project page repeats it , its project history describes work on "the earthfill structure" , and the national dam inventory codes it Earth in both of its dam type fields . Five agency records, no disagreement.
| Measure | Reclamation | The dam inventory |
|---|---|---|
| Structural height | 217.5 ft | 218 |
| Hydraulic height | 193.1 ft | 187 |
| Crest length | 845.0 ft at elevation 5,704 | 845 |
| Material | 1,410,000 cubic yards | Empty |
| Spillway capacity | 7,570 cubic feet a second at elevation 5,698.1 | 7,600, which matches no published Reclamation figure |
| Outlet works | 8,900 cubic feet a second | Empty |
| Capacity | 7,870 acre feet | 7,870 normal, 8,730 maximum |
The construction record is unusually specific for a dam this size. The contract went to the R. A. Heintz Construction Company on 15 June 1962, "with plans to finish during 1965". Work began in the summer of 1962 with clearing, outlet excavation and diversion of the South Fork. It finished in 1966, a year late . The site itself had moved: "The site of Causey Dam and Reservoir on the South Fork of the Ogden River had actually been relocated from earlier plans to place it four miles downstream, after further studies regarding geology and cost showed the current Causey site to be more feasible" . No construction cost for Causey was published in any Reclamation document found.
Reclamation's Weber Basin Project history contains one sentence that names four dams and ranks them. It reads, in full :
"The most threatened of these structures is Lost Creek Dam, although East Canyon, Causey, and Pineview are also in proximity of faults which pose varying degrees of menace to the structures."
The project itself was authorised when "President Truman signed the bill authorizing the Weber Basin Project on August 29, 1949" . Causey is one of what the history calls "the six primary dams and reservoirs" of that project.
Two Reclamation pages give two different handover dates, and this page prints both. The project page says operation and maintenance passed to the Weber Basin Water Conservancy District on 1 October 1968 ; the project history says "Jurisdiction was turned over to the Weber Basin Water Conservancy District in April" of 1969 . Both are Reclamation. Neither statement is Causey specific: both describe the whole project, and this page does not present either as a Causey fact.
Four agencies publish a coordinate for this dam or the gauge on it. Three of them agree to within about thirty metres. The fourth is Reclamation's.
| Source | Latitude | Longitude |
|---|---|---|
| The national dam inventory | 41.29830 | -111.58720 |
| The water survey lake gauge | 41.29855 | -111.58687 |
| The soil conservation service station | 41.29827 | -111.58692 |
| Reclamation's own facility page | 41.290189955885644 | -111.5829849243164 |
The name, at least, is unambiguous. A nationwide search of the dam inventory for every dam whose name contains the string ausey returns three: this one, and two Alabama farm ponds in Hale County called Kenny Causey #2 and Ronnie Gausey, both about ten feet high and both named after their owners . The second one only matched because the search string sits inside the middle of the word. Unlike the last three reservoirs in this series, Utah does not hold a second dam of nearly this name.
Utah runs forty five state parks, and Causey is not one of them . That is a real distinction, because East Canyon, Echo, Lost Creek, Rockport, Willard Bay and Yuba all are.
Reclamation says who does run it in one sentence, and names four of those parks in the same breath :
"Administration for Causey and Pineview Reservoirs is provided by the Forest Service of the United States Department of Agriculture, while the Utah Division of Parks and Recreation is responsible for Rockport Lake, Willard Bay, East Canyon Reservoir, and Lost Creek Reservoir."
And there is a second absence worth noting. Reclamation's Provo Area Office page names twenty six dams it manages, including five Weber Basin dams: East Canyon, Echo, Lost Creek, Pineview and Wanship. Causey is not on that list . It is presumably counted among the office's minor dams, but no page says so, and the dam safety subpage names no individual dam at all.
The national inventory record for this dam, UT10116 :
| Field | What it says |
|---|---|
| Hazard potential | High |
| Condition assessment | Not Available, and the assessment date field is empty |
| Last inspection | 16 August 2023, on a four year cycle |
| Emergency action plan | The prepared flag is empty and the last revised date reads 26 September 2023 |
| Purposes | Irrigation, and nothing else |
| Years modified | Empty |
| Core type, foundation, dam volume, outlet gates | All empty, on a dam Reclamation specifically describes as zoned, which is a statement about its core |
Two smaller defects in the same record. Its hydraulic height reads 187 feet where Reclamation, the agency the inventory names as its own source, publishes 193.1 . And its maximum discharge reads 7,600 cubic feet a second where both Reclamation and its dam safety office publish 7,570 . Thirty cubic feet a second, unexplained. The congressional representative field names someone who left that seat in January 2021 and is not printed here.
A tenth of its own bounding box
The emptiest outline in this series, a recreation classification a tier below the reservoir downstream, and a storage record that stops five days before the dam changed hands.
The shape at the top of this page was traced by hand for a print, then measured against the USGS water body extent , converted from web map metres to true metres by the cosine of the latitude.
| Measure | Traced outline | Federal polygon | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Proportion, width over length | 0.803 | 0.772 | 4.0 percent |
| Area, matched on length | 155 acres | 161 acres | 4.1 percent small |
| Area, stretched to fill on both axes | 149 acres | 161 acres | 7.8 percent small |
| Area, matched on width | 143 acres | 161 acres | 11.4 percent small |
An honest note on the method. Every previous page in this series ran the shoelace formula over the federal ring as a self check on the arithmetic. The geometry service timed out on five consecutive requests for this polygon, so this comparison uses the published extent and the published area instead . That removes the simplification error the last two pages had to declare, and it removes the self check with it. Traced from OpenStreetMap geometry under the Open Database License, and that credit travels with any public use of the shape.
The surface area has four published answers. 136 acres from Reclamation and the dam inventory , 161 from the federal water body dataset at high resolution and 171 from the same dataset at medium . That is a spread of about a quarter. Reclamation's figure is an operating one and the polygon figures are digitised at whatever shoreline the imagery caught, so they are not measuring the same thing. No maximum depth, mean depth or shoreline length is published by any agency. What can be said from an agency source is that the dam has a hydraulic height of 193.1 feet , so this is a deep reservoir for a small surface.
Utah's classification table for Weber County holds two entries, and they are not classified the same way .
| Water | Classes | What the difference means |
|---|---|---|
| Causey Reservoir | 2B, 3A, 4 | 2B is protection for infrequent primary contact and secondary contact recreation, "where there is a low likelihood of ingestion of water or a low degree of bodily contact with the water", with wading, hunting and fishing as the examples |
| Pineview Reservoir | 1C, 2A, 3A, 4 | 1C is domestic supply after treatment. 2A is frequent primary contact, where ingestion or submersion is likely |
A sourcing caveat this page has to make, and it is a real one. The classification above rests on one reproduction of the rule , not two. The federally hosted copy of Utah's standards was fetched successfully and contains the rule, but the Weber County lakes and reservoirs table did not surface in it and Causey could not be found there. Every other page in this series has been able to check this against two independent reproductions. Treat the class string as reported by that reproduction rather than as confirmed twice, and note the reproduction is not itself an agency.
| Question | Answer | How it was checked |
|---|---|---|
| Any approved total maximum daily load | None | Causey does not appear on the state's approved list, and neither does the Ogden River. Pineview does, eleven miles downstream |
| Any fish consumption advisory | None | Twelve Utah waters are on the current list and Causey is not among them |
| Quagga or zebra mussels | Not listed | The wildlife division states the confirmed infestation "is currently limited to Lake Powell" |
| Current impairment listing | Could not be established | Utah's 2022 impaired waters list was approved federally on 8 March 2022 and the page carries no waterbody detail |
The nearest advisory belongs to a different water and must not bleed onto this one. The twelfth entry on the state's current list is the Weber River, for brown trout . Causey is on the South Fork of the Ogden, which reaches the Weber only far downstream and below Pineview. There is no fish consumption advisory of any kind for Causey Reservoir.
Two agencies hold a record numbered 10137290 for this reservoir. One of them stopped a long time ago.
| Record | What it holds | Status |
|---|---|---|
| USGS lake site 10137290 | Reservoir storage, 1 January 1966 to 26 September 1968, 860 daily values | Inactive for fifty eight years |
| NRCS station 10137290:UT:BOR | Reservoir contents in acre feet, daily from 1 January 1966 and monthly from 1 December 1965 | Active. This is what the live card reads |
The active record publishes three durations and all three return data, which is not something this series can take for granted :
| Duration | Record begins | What a value object contains | Flagged as derived |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daily | 1 January 1966 | date and value | No |
| Monthly | 1 December 1965 | month, year, value. No date | Yes |
| Semimonthly | 4 October 2017 | month, monthPart, year, value. No date, and monthPart is a string where the others are integers | Yes |
The monthly record begins a month before the dam was finished. Storage is recorded from 1 December 1965 on a dam completed in 1966 . That is consistent with the reservoir starting to fill during final construction, which is ordinary, but no source explains it and this page does not pretend one does. The card at the top of this page reads the daily series, which is the one the service does not flag as derived.
Below the dam there is a live gauge, which is a change from the last two pages. USGS 10137300, South Fork Ogden River below Causey Reservoir, draining 92.30 square miles . Its daily discharge record nominally runs from 25 January 1966 to now, but holds only 1,307 values across sixty years, so it is long and very broken. The fifteen minute telemetry is what makes the card work, and it only started on 18 September 2024. There is no gauge above the reservoir at all.
And there is one snow station in this drainage. Nine sit in the Lower Weber basin . Only Lightning Ridge, at 8,200 feet in the South Fork Ogden sub basin, is actually upstream of Causey. The Ben Lomond pair index Pineview's basin, and Parleys Summit, Thaynes Canyon and Hardscrabble belong to the East Canyon and Rockport side of the divide. Do not read nine and think nine.
Where everything is
Seven places, one of them the same dam twice, and both roads in are shut.
What is being built, and who is paying. A 2022 memorandum of agreement with four signatories, the Federal Highway Administration's Central Federal Lands division, Weber County, the Forest Service and the Bureau of Reclamation, sets out 11,450,000 dollars of work . Its scope, verbatim: "resurfacing, restoration and rehabilitation (3R) improvements on Causey Road, Skull Crack Road and Wheat Grass Canyon Road, along with associated drainage, safety, and parking lot improvements." The purpose is to "improve access to Causey Reservoir" and to address "parking and safety".
| Road | Work |
|---|---|
| Causey Road | 1.65 miles of resurfacing, plus replacement of the Beaver Creek Bridge |
| Skull Crack Road | 0.43 miles of resurfacing |
| Wheatgrass Road | 0.63 miles of resurfacing |
There is no conventional boat ramp yet, and the one coming is not for motors. The Forest Service says "A boat ramp will be constructed at the Skull Crack parking lot that will be restricted to pedestrians and non-motorized watercraft", to "improve accessibility to visitors with paddleboards, kayaks, and canoes" . The closure order calls the same thing an "emergency boat ramp" .
Causey is "located 15 miles northeast of Ogden, just off SR-39" . No fees are required for the site . The memorandum notes that "Causey Road has landowners on both sides whereas the USFS owns most of the land adjacent to the Wheat Grass and Skull Crack roads" , so part of the approach runs past private ground. No agency statement on winter road maintenance or a seasonal gate could be found, although the fishing guidebook confirms ice fishing happens here .
Two current Forest Service pages describe the boating rule at Causey, and they are not the same rule.
| Source | What it says |
|---|---|
| Closure order 04-19-526 | It is prohibited to be "Operating any boat/watercraft/vessel in excess of a wakeless and or trolling speed". A trolling speed limit presupposes a motor running slowly |
| The recreation site page | "The Reservoir is a non-motorized boating zone in accordance with Utah State Law". That presupposes no motor at all |
The same closure order bans alcohol outright, which is unusual and worth knowing before you pack. Prohibited, verbatim: "Possessing a beverage which is defined as an alcoholic beverage by Utah State Law", and separately "Possessing, discharging, or using any kind of firework or other pyrotechnic device on National Forest system Lands". The order runs from 30 June 2022 through 30 June 2027 .
The Forest Service lists the activities here as "swimming, kayaking, paddleboarding, fishing, and even spear fishing" . Nothing found here prohibits cliff jumping, and this page does not say otherwise; the restriction order covers alcohol, fireworks and boat speed. On life jackets the Forest Service states, verbatim, "Utah Law requires all boats have at least one wearable U.S. Coast Guard approved life jacket" .
Pineview Reservoir is the only cross link on this page where the relationship is continuous water rather than a shared rule, and it is documented four separate ways.
- Reclamation states the distance: "Causey Dam is on the South Fork of the Ogden River about 11 miles upstream from Pineview Dam" .
- The watershed dataset routes it: Causey's sub basin, 160201020205, drains to 160201020305, which is the sub basin Pineview sits in .
- Reclamation puts both under one administrator: "Administration for Causey and Pineview Reservoirs is provided by the Forest Service" .
- Both are named in the fault sentence, along with East Canyon and Lost Creek .
| Causey | Pineview | |
|---|---|---|
| Classification | 2B, 3A, 4 | 1C, 2A, 3A, 4 |
| Approved load allocation | None | Yes |
| Spearfishing | Open, no exception | Open, with an exception |
| Dead yellow perch as bait | Not permitted | Permitted |
| State park | No | No |
| Drainage | 81 to 92 sq mi | 323 sq mi below the dam |
Downstream of Pineview the Ogden River runs on to the Weber, which the water survey gauges at Ogden on a drainage area of 1,670 square miles , and then to the Great Salt Lake. There is a USGS geologic quadrangle named after this dam: Geologic map of the Causey Dam quadrangle, Weber County, Utah, Geologic Quadrangle 790, mapped at 1:24,000 in 1969 . No Utah Geological Survey publication for Causey or Weber County was found, so this page cites the federal survey and not the state one.
Two species, and one of the few waters open to spearfishing with no exception
Kokanee salmon and lake trout are the only two the state names. The closure people expect on the reservoir is actually on both forks of the inlet.
Kokanee salmon
Named in the bag limit by the state, which is how this page knows it is here: "Limit 4 trout or kokanee salmon". The tributaries above the reservoir close from 15 August to the last Saturday of September, which is the shape of a spawning run closure, though no agency document says that is why.
Named in the bag limitLake trout
The other named species, and it carries an inverted slot: all lake trout under 22 inches must be released, and no more than one of the four fish limit may be a lake trout over 22 inches. Anglers here are asked to release the small ones and keep at most one large one.
Release under 22 inchesTwo is the whole evidenced list, and it comes from one line of the fishing rules. The 2026 guidebook's Causey Reservoir entry reads, verbatim :
"Limit 4 trout or kokanee salmon, and no more than 1 may be a lake trout over 22 inches. All lake trout under 22 inches must be immediately released. An angler may use up to six lines when fishing through the ice. If the angler is using more than two lines, the angler's name must be attached to each line, pole or tip-up, and the angler may check only their lines."
That names kokanee salmon and lake trout. The word trout appears generically in the same sentence and no source found here says which trout, so none is drawn.
The lake trout rule is the interesting one. Release everything under 22 inches, keep at most one over it. That is an inverted slot, the reverse of the usual arrangement, and it is the kind of rule fisheries managers write where a predator is being held at low density. That last sentence is interpretation, not an agency statement, and no document found here gives a reason.
There is a fishery monitoring report for Causey and it could not be read. The wildlife division published one dated 2023, and its filename on the division's own server uses a space where every other report in this series uses an underscore. Three separate address forms all returned nothing. That document is where a real species list, catch rates and stocking history would come from, and it is the highest value thing still missing from this page. Not found either: any stocking record, any Utah state record fish, any illegal introduction account, and any rotenone history. Blue Ribbon status is unresolved rather than negative: the division's page lists no waters at all .
Ice fishing is agency confirmed. The guidebook names Causey in one sentence on page 11: "Ice fishing at Flaming Gorge, Porcupine and Causey reservoirs and Pelican Lake." And the reservoir rule allows up to six lines through the ice, with your name attached to each one past the second.
Causey is open to underwater spearfishing, and it is open without an exception, which is the part that matters.
The 2026 guidebook prints a list on page 19 headed "Waterbodies open to spearfishing", under the sentence "Only the waters listed below are open to underwater spearfishing for game fish year-round." Nine entries follow, and Causey Reservoir, Weber County is third :
- Big Sand Wash Reservoir, Duchesne County
- Brown's Draw Reservoir, Duchesne County
- Causey Reservoir, Weber County
- Electric Lake, Emery County
- Grantsville Reservoir, Tooele County
- Porcupine Reservoir, Cache County
- Uinta Mountains, with a bulleted list of seventeen high elevation lakes
- Willard Bay Reservoir, Box Elder County
- Yuba Reservoir, Juab and Sanpete counties
Reconciling the two lists turns up something the last page in this series got incomplete. Take the rule's thirty no exception waters, collapse the seventeen Uinta lakes into the single line the guidebook uses, and thirteen are left. The guidebook names eight of those thirteen. Five qualify on exactly the same test and are missing from it: the Jordan River, Quail Creek Reservoir, Red Fleet Reservoir, Utah Lake and Utah Lake tributaries . No reason is given anywhere for the omission.
So the accurate sentence about Causey is this: it is one of forty two Utah waters open to underwater spearfishing, one of thirty open with no seasonal or species exception, and one of nine entries the guidebook prints. It is not "one of only nine waters." Nine is a count of printed lines. The Forest Service independently names "spear fishing" among the activities here , which is a second agency confirming it happens. No SCUBA specific rule, permit or registration for Causey was found in any source, and the rule requires only "a valid Utah fishing or combination license" . One sourcing caveat: Utah's own rules website returns an error for this rule, so the forty two waters rest on a single non agency reproduction, with the guidebook as the agency restatement.
What to watch for
The first recovery in this series where both halves are on the record: a remotely operated vehicle found him, and divers brought him up.
In July 2025 a 23 year old serviceman went missing after cliff jumping at Causey. Two independent accounts describe the recovery in substantively identical words, and between them they give this series something it has not had before.
Verbatim: "At approximately 9:10 p.m., a Department of Natural Resources remote-operated vehicle located Angel's body in an area of water approximately 48 feet deep. Divers recovered Angel's body." And: "a remote-operated vehicle from DNR located Harris' body in an area of the reservoir that was roughly 48 feet deep. Divers then recovered Harris' body."
The two accounts refer to the man by different names, which is unresolved and is why this page does not print one. A third account that might have settled it could not be read. The Weber County Sheriff's Office worked the incident .
Three more incidents at Causey could be sourced, and two of them were not on the water at all. No count is offered, because the search was not exhaustive and this page does not aggregate press reports into a statistic.
| When | What happened | Recovery method |
|---|---|---|
| March 2020 | A 19 year old drowned in the early hours of a Saturday morning, reported at 2:45 a.m. The sheriff's office described it, verbatim, as "The victim was deceased. It was a recovery operation." A lieutenant said the two people present were "possibly consuming alcohol" | Not stated anywhere in the account |
| June 2020 | A woman in her thirties fell thirty feet while climbing, injuring her back and torso, and was taken to hospital in stable condition. Not a cliff jumping incident, and this page does not reclassify it as one | Not a water recovery |
| September 2019 | A hiker slipped and injured her ankle on the Skull Crack trail and was carried out by county search and rescue and the fire district | Not a water recovery |
The March 2020 date is worth reading carefully: 20 March is an ice out incident, not a summer swimming one, on a reservoir at 5,700 feet. No ice related incident was found despite the guidebook confirming ice fishing happens here , and no dive recovery other than the July 2025 one.
- Both access roads are closed to 31 December 2026, with construction expected into 2027 .
- Alcohol is prohibited outright by Forest Service order .
- No wake, under either Forest Service statement, and the two do not agree on whether motors are allowed at all .
- No fees, and no campground is named on the reservoir's own recreation page .
- This is 5,700 feet , and the dam has a hydraulic height of 193 feet , so it is deep and cold for its size.
- Mussels are not recorded here . The statewide rules still apply, and they matter to anyone moving dive gear: "Boaters are required to stop at all operating AIS inspection stations", and anyone arriving from an infested water must decontaminate first.
Could not be found:
- Maximum depth, mean depth and shoreline length, from any agency source.
- The 2023 fishery monitoring report, which exists and would not open .
- A second reproduction of the water classification rule .
- Any impairment listing or assessment unit for Causey .
- Any algal bloom history. The state's Causey page is closed to automated reading .
- A construction cost for the dam .
- Winter road maintenance or a seasonal gate status .
- Blue Ribbon status, in either direction .
- Any Utah Geological Survey publication for this reservoir or this county .
A remotely operated vehicle found him in forty eight feet of water, and divers brought him up.
Fathom Restoration is a Utah 501(c)(3) that runs volunteer dive cleanups and is built to pull what does not belong out of Utah water, statewide.
Donate to Protect CauseyEvery figure on this page is quoted from the source named beside it.
Sources
How these were checked
Numbered sources are agencies. Lettered sources are everything else, and two of them carry Utah rules that the state's own rules website will not return. Four things did not survive checking. The expectation that this was a concrete arch dam was wrong, and five agency records say so. The framing that Causey is one of only nine waters open to spearfishing does not hold; the rule lists forty two. A claim on the previous page in this series that Red Fleet alone is missing from the guidebook's spearfishing list was incomplete, and five waters are missing, so that page has been corrected. And the water classification could only be verified once, not twice, which is stated on the page rather than glossed. Where agencies disagree, all of them are printed: that happens over the dam's coordinates, its hydraulic height, its spillway capacity, its surface area, its drainage area, the date it changed hands, and whether motors may be used on the water.Causey Dam data. A zoned earthfill structure, structural height 217.5 feet, hydraulic height 193.1, crest 845 feet at elevation 5,704, 1,410,000 cubic yards of material, capacity 7,870 acre feet, surface area 136 acres, built 1962 to 1966
Weber Basin Project. Causey Dam is on the South Fork of the Ogden River about 11 miles upstream from Pineview Dam, and operation and maintenance passed to the water conservancy district on 1 October 1968
Weber Basin Project history, by Christopher J. McCune, 2001. The contractor and the award date, the site relocation, the 1949 authorisation, the sentence about faults that names Causey, the statement that the Forest Service administers this reservoir, and a handover date of April 1969
Dam safety technical report DSO-03-01. Causey Dam is an earthfill dam with an uncontrolled concrete overflow spillway, top of dam elevation 5,704, spillway crest 5,692, design water surface 5,698.1
National Inventory of Dams, Causey Dam, federal identifier UT10116. Dam type Earth, hazard potential high, condition assessment not available with no assessment date, last inspected 16 August 2023, and a hydraulic height six feet below the owning agency's own figure
National Inventory of Dams, every dam in the country whose name contains the string ausey. Three of them, and two are Alabama farm ponds named after their owners
National Hydrography Dataset, Causey Reservoir, GNIS 01448239, reach code 16020102001196. The polygon this page measures its outline against, published at 0.653 square kilometres at high resolution and 0.694 at medium
Watershed boundary dataset. Causey sits in hydrologic unit 160201020205, North Branch South Fork Ogden River, which drains to 160201020305, the unit that holds Pineview Reservoir
Causey Reservoir storage, station 10137290:UT:BOR, at 5,700 feet. Daily contents from 1 January 1966, monthly from 1 December 1965
Causey Reservoir, lake site 10137290. Reservoir storage from 1 January 1966 to 26 September 1968 and nothing since
South Fork Ogden River below Causey Reservoir, site 10137300. Drainage area 92.30 square miles, discharge since 25 January 1966, fifteen minute telemetry since 18 September 2024
Stations in the Lower Weber basin, hydrologic unit 16020102. Nine snow telemetry stations, of which one is in this drainage
Approved total maximum daily loads. Causey Reservoir does not appear on the list. Pineview Reservoir, eleven miles downstream, does
Harmful algal blooms. Causey Reservoir is not mentioned anywhere on the page
Most recent approved integrated report. Utah's 2022 impaired waters list was approved by the federal environmental agency on 8 March 2022, with no waterbody detail published on the page
Game and fish advisories. Twelve Utah waters carry a fish consumption advisory and Causey Reservoir is not one of them
2026 Utah Fishing Guidebook. Causey appears four times: the ice fishing note on page 11, the spearfishing list on page 19, and its own entry and its tributaries entry on page 30
Blue Ribbon fisheries. The programme is described, no waters are listed on the page, and the application that holds the list returns nothing
Invasive quagga and zebra mussels. Utah's confirmed infestation is limited to Lake Powell and Causey is not named
Causey Reservoir recreation site. Fifteen miles northeast of Ogden just off state route 39, no fees, a boat ramp under construction restricted to non motorised watercraft, and a list of activities that names spear fishing
Causey Reservoir restrictions, closure order 04-19-526, effective 30 June 2022 through 30 June 2027. Alcohol prohibited, fireworks prohibited, and no boat operated above a wakeless or trolling speed
Causey Reservoir projects area road closure in effect, order 04-19-26-726. Causey Dam Overlook Road and Skull Crack Road closed from 13 May 2026 through 31 December 2026
Memorandum of agreement for the Causey Reservoir road project, 2022. Four signatories, an estimated cost of 11,450,000 dollars, three named roads with their lengths, and the note that Causey Road has landowners on both sides
Utah state parks. Forty five parks are named and Causey is not among them
Geologic map of the Causey Dam quadrangle, Weber County, Utah. Geologic Quadrangle 790, 1969, at 1:24,000
Provo Area Office. Twenty six dams are named, including five Weber Basin dams, and Causey is not one of them
Point forecast for the dam. Forecast office Salt Lake City, zone UTZ110, Wasatch Mountains I-80 North, and a drought impact statement current at the time of reading
Utah Administrative Code R317-2-13, classification of waters. The only reproduction this page could obtain for the Weber County table: Causey Reservoir 2B, 3A, 4, and Pineview Reservoir 1C, 2A, 3A, 4
Utah Administrative Code R657-13-9, underwater spearfishing. Forty two waters, with Causey Reservoir at paragraph d and no exception clause. Utah's own rules site returns an error for this rule
Weber County sheriff identifies cliff jumper recovered from Causey Reservoir, July 2025. A natural resources remotely operated vehicle located the body in about 48 feet of water and divers recovered it
Airman found dead in Causey Reservoir Saturday evening, July 2025. The second account of the same recovery, with substantively identical wording about the vehicle and the divers
Body of teen recovered after drowning in Weber County's Causey Reservoir, March 2020. No recovery method is stated anywhere in the account
Weber County search and rescue and the fire district rescue an injured hiker at Causey Reservoir, September 2019, on the Skull Crack trail
Both roads in are closed right now
Forest Service order 04-19-26-726 closes Causey Dam Overlook Road, forest road 20016, and Skull Crack Road, forest road 20019, on both sides. The dates are 13 May 2026 through 31 December 2026 . The reservoir's recreation page says closures will continue during construction, into December 2027 .
Why. A four party agreement between the Federal Highway Administration, Weber County, the Forest Service and the Bureau of Reclamation is putting 11,450,000 dollars into resurfacing three roads, replacing the Beaver Creek Bridge, and building parking and a boat ramp at Skull Crack .
Ring the Ogden Ranger District before you drive. The Forest Service publishes the number on the closure notice, and conditions on a construction project change faster than any page can track.
The percentage on the card divides by 7,870 acre feet, which is the capacity three Reclamation documents and the dam inventory's normal storage field all agree on . The inventory also carries 8,730 as maximum storage, which is the 860 acre feet of surcharge above the design water surface.
The flow card is the release gauge below the dam, USGS 10137300, draining 92.30 square miles . It is live, but its fifteen minute telemetry only began on 18 September 2024, and its sixty year daily record holds just 1,307 values. There is no gauge above the reservoir.