WSP02928

• File Number: 8441.100
• Description: Colorado Big Thompson Project - Project Description
• State: CO
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 10/21/1964
• Title: Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District -- Colorado - Big Thompson Project AT WORK
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Project Overview

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IIJOR'l'JIBD COLORADO WATER OONSERVAlICY DIS'i'RIC'f

"OOtDlU\l)O - BIG 'nlOt.1P6Od Pl'lOJEC'fR AT WOJU{

How it "'... created. HoW it worlu.

This water i?'rcjlltct has t"o p%'incipal components. They

a.re the 8us-elllu ot Reclamation of the United States Department

of Inte~ior, a~d tbG Northern COlorado Water ConaervllRCY Di8-

tric1:. The Distd.ct. was a new -..:Lnd of entity in Co10lt.<lo for

oonatr~~ting a oomple. .lrrigation a~ municipal w~t.r sy.tem.
<i't ha~ tQ he evo!ved ilnd cMbled by llln aa'.:. of the l!i37 loqis-
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latw:ce for the oxpltee.. fi'urpoee of th1~ prOje~ This pur.~,;.ti~

was to:.; Ol:ll::'lol(lt Ki:1ter 1,)1'; t.he Color.de) l\~ver waterahl!:.:l and trans-

pozt it, by il tWU\el to be bo.r6d l3.2mUea in le1t9th, throug'b

the .:::c..ntinenwl l;:Iivic1e under Loft'il'a peak, into a tributaJ:Y of

the Thompson Riv~r. Included alo~ its course are power plants.

F~om the ~ondult's east portal, foothills diatributinq canals

run, one north blto the Cache la. Jloudre, another "outh into

St. V:l'ilin and Boulder Cr_ka, ana tl10r.e through to the South

l?lat't.e.

~The Water conservoll.nay ACt." of 193.!.:.-~S. Ch 149 - Art. 6.

Sesuion I~wa of 1937, Cbdpter 2G6, w.. enaeted to eDable

the Distr!ct. When the 1937 nct waa passed it had bHIil througb
such a 8e~eeniDq by ~Lcipalit1e., electric~l utility companiea

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