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Located just west of Carter Lake in southern Larmier County, the new reservoir will hold 90,000 acre-feet (110,000,000 cubic meters) of water, water that will be used for municipal water supply for nine municipalities and three water districts on Colorado's Front Range. The $690 million project is the first major dam to be built in Colorado in ...
The dam is owned by the Bureau of Reclamation and operated by the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District. The reservoir it creates, Carter Lake Reservoir, has a water surface of 1,100 acres (450 ha), about eight miles of shoreline, more than 900 acres (360 ha) of surrounding public land, and a capacity of 112,230 acre-feet (138,430,000 m 3).
Water distribution is currently managed by Reclamation and operated by the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District. Horsetooth and Carter Lake serve as the two principal reservoirs for water diverted eastward under the continental divide via the C-BT. The reservoir is a supplementary source of municipal water for Fort Collins, Greeley and ...
Carter Lake may refer the following places: The city of Carter Lake, Iowa and Carter Lake (Iowa–Nebraska) the oxbow lake on the Iowa–Nebraska border for which the city is named; Carter Lake (Colorado), a reservoir near Loveland, Colorado; Carter Lake (Vancouver Island), a lake on British Columbia's Vancouver Island
The Colorado River Water Conservation District, commonly referred to as the Colorado River District or more simply the "River District," is a public water planning and policy agency for the U.S. state of Colorado that was created in 1937 pursuant to the Water Conservancy District Act of Colorado. [1]
NEW PHILADELPHIA ‒ The Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District (MWCD) will be investing more than $11 million to make improvements at four of its parks in east central Ohio during 2024.. The ...
The project was to supply 491,200 acre-feet (605,900,000 m 3) of water for irrigation, industrial and municipal water supply use in Colorado and New Mexico. [citation needed] In 1978, Congress appropriated $710 million for the project but President Carter vetoed the entire appropriations bill to protest what he viewed as wasteful pork barrel ...
That is, during off-peak hours the water from the retention lake is pumped back up to Carters Lake for use in generating power during the next time of peak demand. The dam's power station contains 2 × 140 megawatts (190,000 hp) Francis turbines and 2 × 160 MW Modified Francis pump turbines for used in pumped-storage (500MW).