The Fort Lyon Canal: The First 100 Years 1897 to 1997

• Description: The Fort Lyon Canal: The First 100 Years 1897 to 1997
• State: CO
• Date: 1/1/1997
• Author: Dodson, O. Ray
• Title: The Fort Lyon Canal: The First 100 Years 1897 to 1997
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

paid for right of way on the storage canal was
$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 Gageby, 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 now 1,750 second -feet,
and thence to Gageby it is 1,600 cubic feet per second.
From Gageby, where the Kicking Bird supply is diverted,
then to Stony Point, the capacity is 600 second -feet,
and between Stony Point and gate 237, northwest 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
Wheatridge Lateral, where it will carry about 300 cubic
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