Painting of the Gatun Spillway and Dam construction - Click here to return to the previous page.
Photo by: Panama Canal Company - Graphics Branch
One of the mural paintings in the Administration Building rotunda by artist W. B. Van Ingen, displays the 1,200 feet long and 285 feet wide, construction of Gatun dam was done in order to dam the Chagres River and to form Gatun Lake.

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 Presentation by: Joseph W. DuVall
For the Panama Canal Society web site.
January 26, 1999