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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.
The state park is centered at Burr Oak Lake. The dam for the lake is federal property under the jurisdiction of the Army Corps of Engineers, and is named Tom Jenkins Dam. It was built in 1950 for flood control. The maximum depth of the lake is around thirty feet. [4] The lake and park are named for the burr oak tree, a variety of oak.
The Great Plains Reservoirs are a group of reservoirs along both sides of U.S. Highway 287 in Kiowa and Prowers counties in southeastern Colorado. Fed by canals, the reservoirs lie in naturally occurring depressions and store water for irrigation and recreational uses.
The Biden administration and southwestern Colorado River users have partnered on a large-scale conservation effort poised to bring significant relief to the region’s key reservoir, officials ...
Gross Reservoir, located in Boulder County, Colorado, is owned and operated by Denver Water. Completed in 1954, the reservoir has a surface area of 440 acres (180 ha), and the spillway sits at 7,225 feet (2,202 m) elevation. [ 1 ]
Cherry Creek Dam (National ID # CO01280) is a dam in Arapahoe County, Colorado, southeast of Denver.. The earthen dam was constructed between 1948 and 1950 by the United States Army Corps of Engineers with a height of 141 feet (43 m) and a length of 14,300 feet (4,400 m) at its crest. [2]
Ronald C. Johnson and others: An Assessment of In-Place Oil Shale Resource in the Green River Formation, Piceance Basin, Colorado, US Geological Survey, retrieved 5 April 2009. Thomas, Judith C. Overview of Groundwater Quality in the Piceance Basin, Western Colorado, 1946-2009, US Geological Survey, retrieved 16 August 2013.
In order for the company to make good on its 50 million-gallon-per-day contract with Newark by the 1900 deadline, suggestions arose to build another reservoir a half-mile below the Oak Ridge dam ...