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Michigan Ditch Tile Michigan DitCh is a transmountain diversion located al Cameron Pass It diverts water from the Michigan River into the CaChe la Poudre River Basin. The ditch can be seen In this pho- tograph as tile honzonlal line below Sawtooth Mountain. It is also visible from the west side of Cameron Pass when driving along Highway 14 Construction of this ditch began July 10. 1902. It was constructed by William Ris! and John McNabb. They sold the nghts of the ditch to the "-1ountain Supply Company m 1906. The ditch was again sold to the North Poudre Irrigation Company on 1908 along With Joe Wright Reser- VOIf. The North Poudre Irrigation Company extended the ditch to Agnes Creek In 1924, A second extension of the ditch included the use of 2.000 feet of wood stave pipe in 1930. Some of that pipeline is slillln use today, but portIOns have been replaced by plastic and steel pipe. In 1971. the City of Fort Collins aCQUIred the ditch and Joe Wright ReservOIr. The ditch had fallen into disrepair operable only between the Michigan River to the pass_ The City began rebuilding efforts in 1973, which indu<led build- ing a roadway between the Agnes diversion and the Michigan River They also put in new diver- sion structures and improved the transmountain diversion system. - -- , -- , , October 2005 , , , , , , . , . . .. . , . . .. " , " " .. .. '... " .. .. .. .. " .. .. .. .. " " >>" ,. " " " " " . " .. " " .. " " . .. . Sun Mon Tue Wed I Thu Fri Sat I 1 I I 41 I I I - I - t - +- I -t - 2 3 51 6 7 8 I I I I r 131 -I - ; 9 10 11 12 141 15 I -L I I r Columbus Day I ~ - - ~ --I 16 17 18 20 I 22 I ----J I - - - - 281 - 23 24 25 27 29 I I ~- ~ f I - I - 30 I I I I I I Dayl'9ht SaVIngS Halloween I I . Aootp.Q:=!IP. GrOlJO Inf'