Irrigation, settlement, and change on the Cache la Poudre River Laflin, Rose Irrigation canals and flumes -- Colorado Cache la Poudre River (Colo.) Land settlement -- Colorado Irrigation -- Research -- Colorado "This special report is produced with funding from the National Park Service through a cooperative agreement with Colorado State University and printed by the Colorado Water Resources Research Institute and Colorado Water Center with funding from U.S. Department of Interior, Geological Survey and Colorado State University." "Special Report Number 15" "June 2005" 204 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 154-173) The Cache la Poudre River drains 1,890 square miles of land in the Mummy and Never Summer ranges in Colorado and Wyoming. It begins on the Continental Divide, flows through mountain canyons on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado and onto the plains, before joining the South Platte River. American settlers first diverted the Poudre’s water into ditches and canals to facilitate irrigation on the plains in the early 1860s. This examination of the water delivery system of the Cache la Poudre – which includes small ditches, large canals, and reservoirs – documents the use of the water for agriculture, municipal, industrial and recreational use. A synthesis of information from public sources such as university libraries, local history archives, the Colorado State Archives, the Colorado State University Water Resources Archive, and the Denver Public Library’s Western History Department, this “environmental history” addresses the development of the water delivery system; the impact of the delivery system on society, economy, laws, technology, hydrology, and the environment; and some attention to Colorado Water law. Colorado State University. Libraries Colorado Water Resources Research Institute 2005 text ; image application/pdf CWRRICPR100001.pdf CCRICWRI100001SRPT eng Special report (Colorado Water Resources Research Institute) ; no. 15 Cache la Poudre River (Colo.) c2005 Colorado Water Resources Research Institute
Irrigation, settlement, and change on the Cache la Poudre River
Laflin, Rose
Irrigation canals and flumes -- Colorado
Cache la Poudre River (Colo.)
Land settlement -- Colorado
Irrigation -- Research -- Colorado
"This special report is produced with funding from the National Park Service through a cooperative agreement with Colorado State University and printed by the Colorado Water Resources Research Institute and Colorado Water Center with funding from U.S. Department of Interior, Geological Survey and Colorado State University."
"Special Report Number 15"
"June 2005"
204 p.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 154-173)
The Cache la Poudre River drains 1,890 square miles of land in the Mummy and Never Summer ranges in Colorado and Wyoming. It begins on the Continental Divide, flows through mountain canyons on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado and onto the plains, before joining the South Platte River. American settlers first diverted the Poudre’s water into ditches and canals to facilitate irrigation on the plains in the early 1860s. This examination of the water delivery system of the Cache la Poudre – which includes small ditches, large canals, and reservoirs – documents the use of the water for agriculture, municipal, industrial and recreational use. A synthesis of information from public sources such as university libraries, local history archives, the Colorado State Archives, the Colorado State University Water Resources Archive, and the Denver Public Library’s Western History Department, this “environmental history” addresses the development of the water delivery system; the impact of the delivery system on society, economy, laws, technology, hydrology, and the environment; and some attention to Colorado Water law.
Colorado State University. Libraries
Colorado Water Resources Research Institute
2005
text ; image
application/pdf
CWRRICPR100001.pdf
CCRICWRI100001SRPT
eng
Special report (Colorado Water Resources Research Institute) ; no. 15
Cache la Poudre River (Colo.)
c2005 Colorado Water Resources Research Institute