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<br /> <br />.~ <br /> <br />Meanwhile. princip<ll water offices moved 101S09Cleveland Place in 1924.lhen 10 the-City and County Building <br />in 1932. The West Side Y,ltds ,n the 12th Avenue address cOnlinued 10 e).pand as a major plant area for pipe and <br />valve storage, construction equipment and m,linlenance shops. <br />Early in the century water planners and engineers began looking beyond the native SOUlh PI.llle basin. which <br />wlleCls only 10% of Colorado'!. water. Methods were sought 10 bring some of the ample water supply from the <br />Colorado River, where more than 70'X, of the stale's waler flows. <br />The BOJrd led~d the pilot bote of the Moffat Railroad Tunnel, enlarged it and concrete-lined thewest pari ion <br />in the 19305. The first stage of the Moffat Tunnel Collection System was built above Winter Park with small <br />diversion dam!>, canals and conduilS to tap tribularies of Ihe Fraser Ri....er. <br />On June 10, 1936, d crowd of Oen....eriles stood dllhe East Porlalof ,he Moffal Tunnel abo....e Rollinwille [ocheer <br />as the !irsl Iram-mounlain dil..ersion waler flowed Oul to help break the droughl of lhe ')lli. <br />In 1937 the MOUdt Treatment Planl was compleled 10 process Ihis new water supply, dnd Ralslon Reser....oir was <br /> <br /> <br />- <br /> <br />... <br /> <br />- <br /> <br />-.:f~';. _~' <br />...- ~. <br />~- '!" - <br /> <br />,-, <br />.....,__...,.0. <br /> <br />_. -.^~~~:~~~-j~::-,;~:-: ~.:': ~~-\f...):-~ <br />. - ~;'~_~ -:.~~ -,~. _.;::c"'-~ <br /> <br />. <br />