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Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; Wikidata item; ... Bodies of water of Colorado by county (64 C) C. Canals in Colorado (3 P) H.
The 100-foot (30-meter) high dam stores 14,543 acre-feet (17,939,000 cubic meters) of water. Colorado Parks and Wildlife owns the dam, and its NID ID# is CO01099. [ 2 ]
Fed by canals, the reservoirs lie in naturally occurring depressions and store water for irrigation and recreational uses. The depressions vary in size from .6–5.0 square miles (1.6–12.9 square kilometers), and the water depths range from 13–25 feet (4.0–7.6 meters), but the water levels vary because the reservoirs are filled in spring ...
This is a list of the largest reservoirs in the state of Colorado. All thirty-nine reservoirs that contain greater than 40,000 acre-feet (49 million cubic meters ) are included in the list. Most of the larger reservoirs in the state are owned by the United States Bureau of Reclamation and, to a lesser extent, the Corps of Engineers .
Bodies of water of Clear Creek County, Colorado (1 C, 3 P) Bodies of water of Conejos County, Colorado (2 C, 1 P) Bodies of water of Costilla County, Colorado (2 C)
Montgomery Reservoir lies high in Colorado's Mosquito Range near Hoosier Pass a few miles north of Alma, Colorado. The reservoir sits at an altitude of 10,873 feet (3,314 meters). [ 1 ] It is owned by Colorado Springs Utilities and delivers water to Colorado Springs, Colorado for municipal use. [ 4 ]
The 711-acre (288-hectare) Tarryall Reservoir State Wildlife Area centers on the reservoir. Located 16.5 miles (26.6 kilometers) southeast of the hamlet of Jefferson, Colorado on Park County Road 77, the wildlife area offers coldwater lake and stream fishing, waterfowl and big game hunting, and wildlife viewing and camping.
The reservoir receives most of its water from Colorado's Western Slope through the Alva B. Adams Tunnel and the Boulder Feeder Canal, both part of the Colorado-Big Thompson Project. [3] Some of the stored water is used as part of Boulder's municipal water supply and some is used for agricultural purposes in Boulder and Weld counties.