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Looking down on the Homestake Dam spillway in June 2000.
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East Homestake pipeline delivering water to the Homestake Dam reservoir on May 28, 2003.
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Homestake Dam reservoir on June 7, 2002.
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"Yarmony Park and Black Mountin, from Yarmony Mountain. Charley McCoy's upper ranch and reservoir on Yarmony Creek in the foreground. The former Leonard Hudson place lies just above the reservoir, the Harris and Lyon ranches partly hidden in back of the tree. The Babcock homestead is located on the extreme left. The two white spots are late May snow drifts." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 278 Mishler and Ball were the first homesteaders, filing in 1892....
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East Homestake pipeline delivering water to the Homestake Dam reservoir on May 3, 2004, following a spring snow.
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East Homestake pipeline delivering water to the Homestake Dam reservoir on May 3, 2004, following a spring snow.
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John Mueller, Angela Beck and Buster Beck fishing at the Homestake reservoir on August 2, 2004.
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1930s: Holmes Reservoir, Missouri Heights, Eagle County, Colorado, showing four people (three children) and three dogs at the base of a pump station. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"In 1906 John Ambos filed on a reservoir site on what isnow a part of the Black Mountain Ranch and a year later built this cabin to camp in while the dam was under construction. Built for temporary use at an elevation 8,500 feet where four feet of snow is nothing unusual, the little 8'x12' cabin is still standing...." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 240. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The Ambos homestead cabin and Ambos Reservoir. "In 1906 John Ambos filed on a reservoir site on what is now a part of the Black Mountain Ranch and a year later built this cabin to camp in while the dam was under construction. Built for temporary use at an elevation of 8,500 feet where four feet of snow is nothing unusual, the little 8' x 12' cabin" was still standing in 1977. --McCoy Memoirs p.240 [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the...
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The cities of Colorado Springs and Aurora sponsored the development of a dam and reservoir that would provide each city with 37,000 acre feet (approximately twelve billion gallons) of water per year. Ultimately, the decision was up to communities using the water on the Western Slope. The project is detailed in two phases, both of which are available at the Eagle Public library and archives, and this map is included as part of those collections, respectively....