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The South Platte River in Platte Canyon, Colorado, ca. 1978. The Platte Canyon is a deep, narrow, scenic gorge on the South Platte River in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. The canyon is southwest of Denver on the border between Jefferson and Douglas counties. The canyon is at the entrance to the mountains, where the South Platte emerges ...
From Eleven Mile Canyon, the South Platte runs northeast to Cheesman Reservoir, named for Denver water pioneer Walter S. Cheesman. At its completion in 1905, the dam was the world's tallest gravity dam, at 221 ft (67 m) above the streambed.
The South Platte River has been dammed about 20 times for water storage, drinking water and irrigation purposes in Colorado as it flows to its confluence with the North Platte River. The total number of dams in the South Platte drainage may exceed 1,000 as nearly all major streams have at least one dam on them. [ 7 ]
Waterton, Colorado is a populated place located along the South Platte River in Platte Canyon (also known as Waterton Canyon [1]) of Jefferson County, Colorado. [2] Cañon Spur in Waterton was a Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad (DSP&P) station. It was a settlement named Enterprise, with a post office from 1879 to 1881.
Clear Creek is a tributary of the South Platte River, approximately 66 miles (106 km) long, [3] in north central Colorado in the United States. The creek flows through Clear Creek Canyon in the Rocky Mountains directly west of Denver, descending through a long gorge to emerge at the town of Golden, finally ending in the Colorado Eastern Plains where it joins the South Platte.
The North Platte River flows northward from Colorado into Wyoming through the popular rafting site – Northgate Canyon [10] which is along the western side of the Medicine Bow Mountains. In Colorado and Wyoming, the river is narrower and much swifter flowing than it is in Nebraska, where it becomes a slow flowing, shallow braided stream .
Planning for the project had begun even before the droughts, with the site where the South Fork of South Platte River enters Eleven Mile Canyon being surveyed in 1926. Like Cheesman Reservoir it is a hybrid arch-gravity dam with much of the force of the water being supported by the canyon walls rather than by the dam alone. [59]
The High Line Canal (HLC) is a man-made waterway, used for irrigation and recreation, that serves the Denver-Aurora metropolitan area.It begins at a diversion dam on the South Platte River, some 1.8 miles (2.9 km) above the mouth of Waterton Canyon.