WSP13040

• File Number: 8149.100
• Description: Ft. Lyon Canal
• State: CO
• Author: O. Ray Dobson, Ph.DH
• Title: The Fort Lyon Canal, the First 100 Years, 1987-1997
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

paid for right of way on the storage canal \;vas
$17,339.41. There are said to be a few small tracts of
state land on the main canal, aggregating not over 50
acres, for which title to the right of way is yet to be ob-
tained.

The reservoir sites of Horse Creek. Adobe Creek and
Thurston Reservoirs have been chiefly purchased from
the State.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPERTY.

The principal asset of the Fort Lyon Canal Company is
the original canal from the Arkansas River, built as de-
scribed in the foregoing historical sketch. and the early
priorities thereto attached. The canal has a total length
of about 113 miles from its headgate to the extreme
end at Big Sandy Creek, and is built on a grade of 2.11
feet per mile. with the exception of a section of 25 miles
from Horse Creek to Gageoy, where the grade was re-
duced to 1.58 feet per mile.

CAPACITY OF THE CANAL IN SECTIONS.

The capacity of the Western Division of the Canal, from
the headgate to Horse Creek, is noVJ -; .750 second-feet,
and thence to Gageby it is 1 ,600 cub~c feet per second.
From Gageby, INhere the Kicking Bird supply is diverted.
then to Stony Point, the capacity is 600 second-feet,
and between Stony Point and gate 237. north\;vest of
Lamar, it is reduced to about 450 second-feet. Thence
to Thurston Reservoir it has a capacity of 400 feet, re-
ducing below Thurston Reservoir to the head of
VYheatridge Lateral. where it v1ill carry about 300 cubic

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