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Barker Meadow Reservoir in Boulder County, Colorado. Barr Lake in Barr Lake State Park. Bear Creek Lake in Lakewood, Colorado. Big Soda Lake (Colorado) in Lakewood, Colorado. Bierstadt Lake in Larimer County, Colorado. Bison Reservoir in Victor, Colorado. Black Lake at Vail Pass in Eagle County, Colorado.
The largest reservoir entirely contained in Colorado is Blue Mesa Reservoir, with a capacity of 829,500 acre⋅ft (1.0 billion m 3 ). The total storage of the reservoirs on this list is 3,804,458 acre⋅ft (4.7 billion m 3 ), although not all is allocated for use by Colorado.
This is a list of dams on the Colorado River system of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. The Colorado runs 1,450 mi (2,330 km) from the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf of California, draining parts of seven U.S. states and two Mexican states. The river system is one of the most heavily developed in the world, with fifteen dams ...
Course of the Colorado River. Map showing the Colorado River basin. The Colorado River is a major river of the western United States and northwest Mexico in North America. Its headwaters are in the Rocky Mountains where La Poudre Pass Lake is its source. Located in north central Colorado it flows southwest through the Colorado Plateau country ...
Blue Mesa Reservoir is an artificial reservoir located on the upper reaches of the Gunnison River in Gunnison County, Colorado.The largest lake located entirely within the state, Blue Mesa Reservoir was created by the construction of Blue Mesa Dam, a 390 feet (120 m) tall earthen fill dam constructed on the Gunnison by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation in 1966 for the generation of hydroelectric ...
The 1,500 acre (6 km 2) lake has a conservation storage capacity of 27,000 acre⋅ft (0.033 km 3) with a flood-control pool of over 350,000 acre⋅ft (0.43 km 3). The reservoir inundated the abandoned roadbed of the Colorado and Southern Railway, a historic narrow gauge line active between 1874 and 1942.
Lake Granby is the third largest body of water in Colorado. It was created by the erection of Granby Dam , completed in 1950, as part of the Bureau of Reclamation's Colorado-Big Thompson Project . Water from Lake Granby is pumped via the Farr Pump plant though a pipeline that empties into a canal connected to Shadow Mountain Reservoir.
Shadow Mountain Lake. / 40.22778°N 105.84306°W / 40.22778; -105.84306. Shadow Mountain Lake is a reservoir in Grand County, Colorado, near the headwaters of the Colorado River. Shadow Mountain Lake is created by Shadow Mountain Dam. The lake forms a continuous body of water with Grand Lake, the largest natural lake in Colorado; they ...