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<br />head of water in the canal the ve-oci:y through this chute <br />is about 25 mi!es oer hour. The steep chute ar,c hiar <br />. ~ <br />ve!ocity of the flume :s ar Gndesirabie engineering fea- <br />ture whch gives constant troub:e and anxiety when the <br />cana' is ful!, out mare particuiarly during winter. At the <br />lower end of the flume t'1e water is ~eceived in a wide <br />pone:' where it is churnea up into foa~ like a mimature <br />Niagara. and expends its fury in scounng the oottom <br />and lashing the banks of the pond. Great troub:e has <br />beer: experier.ced at ths point in wintertime byce gorg- <br />ing and ailing up in the basin ant overflowing :he sices <br />of the fiL~me. Ar a::empI has beer made to overcome <br />this ice troJble by crec~ gates at the read to :he flume. <br />divertng the largece floes through :he waste cha'lne <br />\vhich ~eturns to tr-e creek above the flume :hro~gh a <br />deeD rOCK cut but this ~as been only partially success- <br />ful, and !as! w~nter :hece piled up to a reight of 10 or <br />12 feet in Horse Creek, a~ the mouth of the waste chan- <br />nel. FiHing all the soace down to :he flume. Even as <br />late as r,,1arch 4:-, day of my visit. the cree~ channel was <br />almost entIrely filled with a solid mass of ice 5 0" 6 feet <br />deep. not only above the flume b~t below. Washouts ir <br />summer and ice gorges in winter nave -:,ace tnis f.ume <br />a source of perpetual expense and annoyance. caus- <br />ing m~choss of wate~ to the Storage Company cunng <br />winter months, and interruption of service to tr.e water <br />corsumers <.Jnder tne Fort Lyon system i'i the i~rigatiofl <br />season. The Storage Com8any is chiefly ir.terested ;,., <br />be~ng able ;:0 successbi1y operate the canal ana f~ume <br />in \tJIr;ter, when they have the (ght to store. ana both <br />companies rate equally interested in having a structure <br />which wi!1 resist the summer foods that COr!1e dow'l <br /> <br />...... <br />,)~ <br />