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<br />Cheesman Dam <br /> <br />Cheesman Dam and ReservOir was named fOf <br />Denver water pioneer Walter S Cheesman. who <br />was also President of the Denver Union Water <br />Company. The dam was constructed on the <br />South Platte River SIX miles southwest of Deck- <br />ers. Colorado. The dam was deSigned and con- <br />structed In less than five years. ThIS year is the <br />100th anniversary of the completion of the dam in <br />1905 <br /> <br />The dam is a gravity ardl masonry dam made of <br />squared granite blocks When it was bUll!. 11 was <br />the highest gravity arch stone masonry dam in <br />the world. The dam stands 221 feet above the <br />streambed. The crestlenglh IS 670 feet without <br />the spillway and 1.100 feet including the spillway. <br /> <br />The reserYOir and related faahltes were pur- <br />chased in November 1918 by the Denver Water <br />Board Cheesman Reservoir was the first reser- <br />vOir of Denver's mountain storage facilit~s. The <br />reservoir storage capaoty IS 79,064 acre feet. <br />The dam was designated a Natooal Histone <br />landmali in 1973 by the American Society of <br />Civil Engineers. <br /> <br /> - <br /> '-.- ...- <br /> ~-- .. ~.;~ <br /> , , , . . March 2005 , , <br />. . . . .. .. " . . . . , . <br />" .." .. ,,'. .. .. .. " .. .. ., .. <br />. .. >> >> . .. . .. ,. .. .. .. .. .. <br />.. . .. .. . .. .. . . <br /> <br />Sun I Mon I Tue I Wed I Thu Fri I Sat <br /> I <br /> , <br /> I 1 I 2 3 I 4' 5 <br /> I <br /> I I <br /> ~ -I I 10 I 111 <br /> 8' - <br /> 7 9 12 <br /> I <br /> I <br />- _J 171 181 <br /> 13 14 15 16 19 <br /> 1 , <br /> I <br /> 23+ " PalriCk'sDay ~ <br /> , I - <br /> 20 21 22 24 25 26 <br /> I , <br /> , <br /> I , , I <br /> , 281 I Good Friday <br /> I 29/ +- , -+ <br /> 27 30 31 , <br /> I I I I <br /> I I <br /> I I <br />Easter Sunday I I <br /> , <br /> <br />Apoleaale Graue, Inc. <br />