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ADDITIONAL WATERSHED DEVELOPMENTS<br />
After City officials suffered through numerous water quality problems with the City’s early<br />
water system, one of their major concerns was to assure that the water in Boulder’s Silver<br />
Lake Watershed remained (nearly) pure. On July 23, 1914, Mayor W.L. Armstrong, City<br />
Engineer H.E. Phelps, Consulting Engineer M.C. Hinderlinder, six aldermen, the city health<br />
officer, and newspaperman Otto Wangelin piled into one large Stanley Steamer and drove<br />
to Silver Lake for an inspection. 102<br />
Twenty-five species of trout had been identified in the watershed, and the area had become<br />
a tremendous attraction to Colorado fishermen. After the field trip, the council<br />
discussed the need for a guard for the watershed, or, at least, the possibility of hiring a<br />
caretaker for the premises. Shortly afterwards, the City hired its first caretaker, Alfred T.<br />
Wheeler to make releases from the reservoirs, but also to keep an eye on recreational users<br />
of the area to assure no polluting activities took place. 103<br />
Silver Lake’s first caretaker, Alfred T. Wheeler, posed with some of the trout he had caught<br />
in the lake. Carnegie Branch Library for Local History, Boulder (Carnegie 513-2-26 #1).<br />
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