Carraway Dam - Declassified
Spoiler Content
This page reveals information that is not publicly known in-world. Return to the surface page if you prefer the official account.
What the surface claimed
“…capacity for growth that never arrived.” - Commission public bulletin, 1969
The growth arrived. It was simply not the kind that appears in public bulletins.
The Real Purpose
The Appalachian Energy & Mine Commission was the legitimate face of the project. The program concealed within the dam was administered not by the Commission as an institution but by the inner circle of its leadership, the group later referred to in recovered documents as The Compromised.
Project WATERSHED
The dam’s secondary function, concealed within the sub-basement intake structures, was hydrological monitoring and controlled-release experimentation. The reservoir’s unusually deep draw-down capacity served as a containment buffer for experimental runoff from a research site located upstream in the gorge, the existence of which does not appear in any Commission public record.
The 1967 Inspection
The 1967 inspection report that praised the dam’s “structural integrity” was authored by Dr. Constance Vail, operating under Commission authority. The phrase “capacity for growth that never arrived” was a pre-arranged signal confirming the sub-basement program remained undetected.
What Remains
The sub-basement intake level is still sealed. The Carraway Workers’ Camp on the eastern bank housed a rotation of Commission technicians through the mid-1960s. Their quarters were decontaminated in 1971.
See also: Carraway Dam for the official record.