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118 Daily Camera, February 15, 1943. 119 City of Boulder Source Water Master Plan, Section 4: Assets, April 2009, pages 4-18. 120 Simons, Li & Associates, Inc. (1985a).op. cit., B.4, 2.8, 3.8; and Smith, P. op. cit., 45. 121 Daily Camera, February 27, 1936. 122 Daily Camera, February 27, 1936. 123 City of Boulder Source Water Master Plan, Management of Boulder’s Water Supply, April 2009. 124 United States Bureau of Reclamation, The Story of the Colorado-Big Thompson Project (Washington D.C.: U.S. Gov. Printing Office, 1962) 5. 125 United States Forest Service. (1939). Special use permit: [Lakewood] water transmission pipeline dated March 20, 1939. Washington D.C.: Department of Agriculture. 126 An Act granting the right of way to ditch and canal owners over the public lands, and for other purposes [Chap. CCLXII, 39th Cong., 1st Sess. Ch. 262 (July 26, 1866)]. In G. P. Sanger (Ed.), The statutes at large, treaties, and proclamations of the United States of America from December, 1865 to March, 1967: Arranged in chronological order and carefully collated with the originals at Washington with references to the matter of each act and to the subsequent acts on the same subject (pp. 251-253). Boston: Little, Brown, and Company (1868). 127 Engineering Report on Waterworks Expansion Program, City of Boulder, Colorado, C.H. Hoper and Company, September 1958, p. III-2. 128 R.J. Tipton and Associates, Inc. (1949). Report on Boulder water supply. Denver, CO. 129 City of Boulder Source Water Master Plan, Section3: Management of Boulder’s Water Supply, April 2009, pages 3-11. 130 R.J. Tipton and Associates, Inc. (1949). Report on Boulder water supply. Denver, CO. 131 Boulder County Clerk, Warranty Deed, Book 393, page 87 (T1N R71W Section 28). 142 132 Phyllis Smith, A History of the Waterworks of Boulder, Colorado (Boulder: Public Works Department, 1986). 133 “Water Utility Improvements, “ Bert W. Johnson to Members of City Council, February 1, 1952. 134 A Long-Range Plan of Development of Supplemental Water Supply for the City of Boulder, R.J. Tipton Associated Engineers, Inc., Denver, CO, October 1952.
135 Preliminary Design Memorandum, Water Works Improvements, Boulder, Colorado, Black and Veatch Consulting Engineers, Kansas City , MO, January 1961, p.57 136 Phillips, Orley Oliver. (1957). A long range program of development of water resources and water supply for the City of Boulder, Colorado dated May 23, 1957. Boulder, CO: University of Colorado Department of Civil Engineering, 81. 137 Agreement of Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District and City of Boulder. (1953). Annexation agreement dated August 24, 1953. Boulder, CO. 138 The remainder of 1953’s $2 million water bond issue went to improvements at Silver Lake Dam, Green Lake Dam Number 2, and $285,000 for replacement of portions of the Boulder City Pipeline (Lakewood Pipeline) from Sugarloaf Mountain downhill to the Lower Intake. 139 Smith, P. op. cit., 45. 140 City of Boulder Source Water Master Plan, Section 4: Assets, April 2009, pages 4-46. 141 Contract between Public Service Company of Colorado and City of Boulder. (1959). Regarding Boulder Creek exchange dated October 5, 1959. Boulder, CO. 142 Agreement of Public Service Company of Colorado and City of Boulder. (1955). Regarding joint use of Barker Meadow Reservoir dated April 26, 1955. Boulder, CO. 143 Contract between Public Service Company of Colorado and City of Boulder. (1959). op. cit. 144 Boulder County Clerk, Book 300, Page 101. 145 City of Boulder. (1962). Memorandum from M.B. Woolf: Regarding Silver Lake Ditch to N. King, City Attorney dated October 29, 1962. Boulder, CO: Boulder City Clerk. 146 Boulder County Miner, Magazine Supplement, June 30, 1910, page 3. 147 R.J. Tipton and Associates, Inc. (1949). Report on Boulder water supply. Denver, CO. 148 Supplemental Agreement of Silver Lake Ditch and Reservoir Company and City of Boulder. (1955). Regarding clarification of 1906 agreement dated July 20, 1955. Boulder, CO: Boulder City Clerk. 149 Moses, Wittemyer and Harrison, P.C. (1973). Letter to A. Hollar regarding “level plane” definition of capacity in the 1906 agreement between the City of Boulder and Silver Lake Ditch and Reservoir Company dated May 30, 1973. Boulder, CO. 150 City of Boulder. (1963). Memorandum from M.B. Woolf: Regarding Silver Lake ditch to N. King, City Attorney dated October 25, 1963. Boulder, CO: Boulder City Clerk. 143
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BOULDER’S WATERWORKS PAST & PRESE
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• Water System Security Improveme
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INTRODUCTION The story of Boulder
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SETTLEMENT& DITCHES Boulder City To
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1859, they dug small ditches from B
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“Shovel diplomacy,” however, di
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state senator. In January 1873, the
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PUBLIC WATERWORKS & PROBLEMS • 18
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Above, the Town of Boulder Reservoi
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BOULDER’S EARLY WATERWORKS PRESEN
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Ditch laterals paralleled 12th Stre
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A few weeks later, the City Council
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Silver Lake Ditch had five wooden f
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NEED FOR NEW RESERVOIRS • 1891, O
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Continued population growth in Boul
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In Boulder, laborers replaced pipes
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INTO THE 20TH CENTURY Discovery of
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In 1904, glacier hikers even includ
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The Maxwells also made a similar pr
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LAKEWOOD, LAKEWOOD RESERVOIR & TUNS
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In addition, the City acquired ease
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The Act that conveyed the first gra
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BOULDER HYDRO SYSTEM, 1910 The twen
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The dam was photographed on April 1
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producing 5,000 kilowatts (KW) of p
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On August 4, 1910, a ceremony was h
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This drawing of the original two ge
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ADDITIONAL WATERSHED DEVELOPMENTS A
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Silver Lake Pipeline In the years p
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pieces, are we justified in denying
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The WPA built much of Boulder’s w
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mission lines which, in places, has
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older clay tile pipe on the pipelin
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NEW WATER SUPPLIES & GROWTH, 1950s-
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One of the surge chambers for the p
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At this time, Boulder was beginning
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The City entered into an agreement
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Beginning in 1947, CBT Project wate
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The next water rights used to fill
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Atmospheric Research’s proposed b
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BETASSO WATER TREATMENT PLANT, 1964
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A new raw water pipeline was constr
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In 1976, the Betasso Water Treatmen
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BOULDER RESERVOIR WATER TREATMENT P
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Throughout the 1970s, employees of
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WATER AND POWER FOR THE FUTURE, 198
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Page 103 and 104: DEVELOPMENTS IN THE 1990s From the
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