The western half of present-day Huntsville is located between the central and southern bays of Pineview Reservoir.

[1] The dam was developed as a means of providing reliable irrigation to 25,000 acres (100 km2) located between the Wasatch Range and the Great Salt Lake.

Its construction is a zone earthfill dam type containing 15,500 cubic yards (11,900 m3) of earth, rock and riprap materials.

The later Weber Basin Project increased the height of the dam to 137 feet (42 m), enlarging the capacity to 110,150 acre-feet (135,870,000 m3).

By using radial gates, the dam functions with an overflow, channel-type spillway allowing for a flow rate of 10,000 cubic feet per second (280 m3/s).

The Highline canal is fed through a 36-inch (0.91 m) diameter, 360 feet (110 m) long steel siphon suspended across the mouth of the canyon.

Camping, boating, water-skiing and personal watercraft use, as well as trout, bass, crappie and wall-eyed pike fishing are popular activities in the recreational area.

Pineview Reservoir is one of only three lakes in Utah that house the tiger muskie, a sterile hybrid fish.