Union Mills Reservoir

Watershed map showing Big Pipe, Little Pipe and Double Pipe Creek.

A proposed Union Mills Reservoir represents a half century of efforts by the Commissioners of the Carroll County, Maryland, to build variations on a "dam" or "reservoir" near Union Mills, Maryland, on the Big Pipe Creek, defeated by a petition led by the Carroll County Taxpayers' Committee in the 1970s. The plan may be alive among some county officials[1][2] but may also be postponed "indefinitely."[3] Land threatened by the reservoir includes the Whittaker Chambers Farm, also known as the Pipe Creek Farm, a National Historic Landmark[4][5][6][7][8] as well as protected under the Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation (MALPF).[9]

  1. ^ Carrol County Soil Conservation District - Carroll County Commissioners (June 1976). "Watershed Plan and Environment Impact Statement - Big Pipe Creek Watershed". USDA Soil Conservation Service. p. I (improvements), II (reservoir, recreation), III (bear the costs), V (signatures), II-20 (Union Mills), II-158 (opposition statement), II-159 (no real flood control), II-159–172 (comments and responses). Retrieved 5 September 2020.
  2. ^ "Union Mills Reservoir Trails" (PDF). Carroll County Government. 22 September 2010. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
  3. ^ "The Whittaker Chambers Farm (A.K.A. Pipe Creek Farm) in Westminster, Maryland". Global Liberty Alliance. 2017. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
  4. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  5. ^ "Whitakker Chambers Farm". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Retrieved 2008-06-09.
  6. ^ "Whittaker Chambers's Farm Is Proposed for Landmark". The New York Times. March 21, 1988. Retrieved September 3, 2009.
  7. ^ "Site in Hiss-Chambers Case Now a Landmark". The New York Times. May 18, 1988. Retrieved June 9, 2008.
  8. ^ Chambers, Whittaker (May 1952). Witness. Random House. pp. 3 (wrote at Medfield), 371–372 (Alger Hiss), 514 (dairy farm), 514–515 (bought Medfield), 516 (dirt farm), 751–755 (strawberry patch, Pumpkin Papers). ISBN 9780895269157. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
  9. ^ "Environmental Stewardship in Carroll County 2017" (PDF). Carroll County Government. 1 August 2017. p. 1 (goals), 2 ("permanently," map). Retrieved 12 September 2020.