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<br />" <br /> <br />Ol)e!/? <br />I-.i. ~...w <br /> <br />LAKE CHEESMAN RESERVOIR (Altitude 6,842 feet) <br /> <br />Location: - On South Fork of South Platte River 4 miles upstream from Deckers. <br /> <br />Built : <br /> <br />1900 - 1905 <br /> <br />Cost: <br /> <br />Property Account $1,613,665 <br /> <br />Function: <br /> <br />To provide reserve storage. First reservoir built on the mountain <br /> <br />system for this purpose. <br /> <br />Capacity: - 79,064 acre feet <br /> <br />Type: <br /> <br />Gravity masonry dam, faced with ashlar granite blocks; 231 feet high <br /> <br />above stream bed. A long time key unit of the Denver Water system. <br /> <br />Of exceptional merit from both an engineering and utilitarian point of <br /> <br />view. <br />