Storage of water on Cache La Poudre and Big Thompson Rivers (1903) (14784180092)

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Title: Storage of water on Cache La Poudre and Big Thompson Rivers

Year: 1903 (1900s)

Authors: Tait, C. E. (Clarence Everett) United States. Office of Experiment Stations

Subjects: Water Storage Colorado Cache la Poudre River Water Storage Colorado Big Thompson River

Publisher: Washington : U.S. G.P.O.

Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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T 10,000,000 cubic feet or 230 acre-feet.The price paid in each case was $100 per million cubic feet or $4.36per acre-foot. WATER SUPPLY AND STORAGE COMPANYS SYSTEM. The Water Supply and Storage Company owns Chambers Lake,Rocky Ridge Reservoir, Reservoirs Nos. 2,3, and 1, Long Pond,Lindenmeier Lake, and Curtis Lake. The company owns also theLarimer County Canal, and the Laramie River, Cameron Pass, andGrand River ditches. Chambers Lake and the three ditches are in themountains at the head waters of the Cache la Poudre River. All theother reservoirs, except Curtis Lake, are embraced in a chain beginningwith Rocky Ridge Reservoir on the north and ending with Linden-meier Lake on the south. Rocky Ridge Reservoir is located 6 milesdirectty north of Fort Collins, and Nos. 2, 3, and 1 are to the south of U. S. .Dept. of Agr., Bui. 134, Office of Expt. Stations. Irrigation Investigations. Plate III.

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Fig. 2.—Head Works of Poudre Valley Canal, Inlet to Douglas Reservoir. 29 it in the order named. They are closely connected and one dischargesinto the other. The outlet ditch from No. 4 runs southeast about 2miles and enters Long Pond, which discharges into Lindenmeier Lake,one-half mile south of it. Curtis Lake, in Dry Creek Valle)^, is 1;miles west of No. 1. ROCKY RIDGE RESERVOIR. Rocky Ridge Reservoir, which is No. 1 of the system, is so calledb)^ reason of its location near a small and rocky ridge in the valley.It is just north but below the grade of the Larimer County Canal.The only embankment required was across a draw at the southeastend of the basin. This fill is 17 feet high, 60 feet wide on top, and620 feet long, and the Larimer County Canal runs along the top of it.Its upper face is supported by a masonry wall having a slight batter,while the lower side is given a natural slope. The outlet is a tunnel through the slight ridge along which the canalruns on the southwest sid

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