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It was built in 1922. It is located southeast of McCoy, Colorado at the Colorado River. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, [1] at a time when it was in deteriorated condition. It has since been rehabilitated by the Colorado Water Restoration Foundation, Ltd. It stands 40 feet (12 m) high and is about 6 feet (1.8 ...
Shoshone holds water rights to 1,250 cubic feet (35 m 3) per second of Colorado River water, which date back to 1902. [1] This predates rights owned by entities on Colorado's Front Range, which draw water from where most of the state's precipitation falls on the Western Slope across the Continental Divide to major population centers east of the ...
The Colorado River Storage Project is a United States Bureau of Reclamation project designed to oversee the development of the upper basin of the Colorado River. The project provides hydroelectric power , flood control and water storage for participating states along the upper portion of the Colorado River and its major tributaries.
An Australian company and its U.S. subsidiaries are analyzing the saline waters in a geologic formation shared by Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, an area called the Paradox Basin.
Water wheels were used to power sawmills, grist mills and for other purposes during development of the United States. The 40 feet (12 m) diameter water wheel at McCoy, Colorado, built in 1922, is a surviving one out of many which lifted water for irrigation out of the Colorado River. Two early improvements were suspension wheels and rim gearing ...
But Sedlak also recalled when former Gov. Pat Brown funded a $1.75-billion water initiative in 1959 that eventually became the State Water Project, which now provides water to more than 23 million ...
Public Service Company acquired the plant with other Colorado Ute properties in 1992. [8] A 1905 vintage power house is still in service for Public Service Company, a subsidiary of Xcel Energy, [8] with two Pelton wheels powering a single 1904 General Electric generator, with output of 2,400 volts, and 1,082 amperes at a speed of 225 R.P.M.
But imports, such as Colorado River water pumped over the continental divide and down to the Front Range, can in many cases be completely used up. Nearly all the water in Aurora can be reused.