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The lake became a component in the Colorado-Big Thompson Project (C-BT) in 1937, when it was recruited as a conduit for C-BT project water. The C-BT project diverts water from the Colorado River Basin east via the Alva B. Adams Tunnel under the Continental Divide and Rocky Mountain National Park to the Big Thompson River watershed, thence the ...
Bureau of Reclamation regions. This is a list of valleys within the Lower Colorado River Valley corridor, from the Hoover Dam region, south to the Mexico border.. Six valleys are contained within neighboring bajadas and mountain ranges, on the Colorado River proper; other tributary valleys flow during desert rain episodes, and are otherwise dry washes.
Granby sits at 7,935 feet (2,419 m) above sea level in the valley of the Fraser River, 2 miles (3 km) east of its mouth at the Colorado River. It is located in eastern Grand County in an area subject to average annual rainfall of 12 + 1 ⁄ 4 inches and annual snowfall of more than 128 inches (3,300 mm).
The Greenhorn Valley lies in southern Pueblo County, Colorado just east of Greenhorn Mountain. It includes the communities of Colorado City and Rye. [3] Colorado State Highway 165, part of the Frontier Pathways Scenic Byway, goes through the valley and serves as its main street. Interstate 25 marks the eastern end of the valley.
The Barlow post office was renamed Glenwood Springs, Colorado, on March 28, 1884, [14] and the Town of Glenwood Springs was incorporated on September 4, 1885. [5] Glenwood Hot Springs Bathhouse, Glenwood Springs, built c. 1888. The location of Glenwood Springs, and its railroad stop, established a center of commerce in the area.
This partial list of city nicknames in Colorado includes some of the sobriquets, pseudonyms, and slogans that identify, or have identified, the cities and towns of the U.S. state of Colorado. City nicknames can help in establishing a civic identity, helping outsiders recognize a community or attracting people to a community because of its ...
Surrounding the city limits is the Colorado River, the Colorado National Monument and the Book Cliffs range which extends west into the state of Utah north of Interstate 70. At the 2020 United States census, the city had a total area of 5,237 acres (21.193 km 2) including 186 acres (0.754 km 2) of water. [3]
The pesticide issue is even greater in streams and water bodies near agricultural lands irrigated by the Imperial Irrigation District with Colorado River water. In the Imperial Valley, Colorado River water used for irrigation overflows into the New and Alamo rivers and into the Salton Sea. Both rivers and the sea are among the most polluted ...