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At the time, it was the third-largest dam ever to be removed in the United States. [4] Idylwilde Dam 57 ft (17 m) 2013 Larimer County: Big Thompson River: Big Thompson River: Hydropower dam owned by the City of Loveland. Carriage Hills #2 Dam 10 ft (3.0 m)
Grand Valley Diversion Dam CO: USBR: Irrigation 1916 N/A N/A 3: 19,350 [15] Windy Gap Dam CO: Northern Water: Irrigation Municipal 1970 Windy Gap Reservoir: 445 acre.ft (549 dam 3) N/A N/A [16] Granby Dam CO: USBR: Irrigation Municipal 1950 Lake Granby: 539,800 acre.ft (665,800 dam 3) N/A N/A [17] Shadow Mountain Dam CO: USBR: Irrigation ...
Ralston Dam (National ID # CO00205) is a dam in Jefferson County, Colorado. The earthen dam was constructed in 1937 by the Denver Board Of Water Commissioners, with a height of 204 feet (62 m), and a length of 1,170 feet (360 m) at its crest. [2] It impounds Ralston Creek for municipal water supply for the city of Denver. The dam is owned and ...
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The project was to supply 491,200 acre-feet (605,900,000 m 3) of water for irrigation, industrial and municipal water supply use in Colorado and New Mexico. [citation needed] In 1978, Congress appropriated $710 million for the project but President Carter vetoed the entire appropriations bill to protest what he viewed as wasteful pork barrel ...
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.
Water volume 120,000 acre-feet (150,000,000 m 3 ) [ 2 ] Lake Nighthorse is a reservoir created by the 270 feet (82 m) high Ridges Basin Dam [ 1 ] southwest of Durango in La Plata County Colorado .
Location: Larimer County, Colorado: Coordinates: 1]: Type: Reservoir: Etymology: Named for Robert Chambers, a trapper who camped at the site in 1858 [2]: Primary inflows: Fall Creek, Skyline Ditch, Joe Wright Creek: Primary outflows: Joe Wright Creek: Managing agency: The Water Supply and Storage Company: Surface area: 255 acres (103 ha) [3]: Water volume: 11,350 acre⋅ft (14,000,000 m 3) [4 ...