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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).
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
From Lake Granby, the water is pumped into Shadow Mountain reservoir and then flows by gravity to Grand Lake, Colorado's largest natural body of water, from where it pours through the tunnel. Lake Granby is the second largest reservoir in the state of Colorado, with a nominal capacity of 470,000 acre-feet (0.58 km 3 ). [ 2 ]
The reservoir was named after Farrish Carter who lived in the 19th century. It has a surface area of 3,200 acres (13 km 2) and has 62 miles (100 km) of shoreline. Carters Lake has an average depth of 200 feet (61 m) and a maximum depth of 450 feet (140 m). [2] Fall Colors at Carters Lake