Shadow Run Dam Corporation - Riverview, FL

The developers of the Shadow Run subdivision planned for a lake to be located toward the east end of the development.  Lake Grady was subsequently created in 1969 by the construction of a dam to impound a portion of Bell Creek and the Pellam Branch Watersheds which are tributaries to the Alafia River.  The county maintained roadway, Shadow Run Boulevard, was constructed on top of the dam structure to connect the two sides of the development. 

In 1983, one of seven corrugated metal pipes within the structure of the dam collapsed, resulting in erosion of the existing bank surface on the upstream side.  In 1985 the dam was repaired, only to experience another failure in 1987.  The repairs were undertaken by the Lake Grady Road and Bridge District, which assessed the members of the District for the cost of the repairs and entered into a contract with Housel & Associates as the engineer to remediate the repairs, and with C.P. Ward Construction Company as the construction contractor.