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Irrigation, settlement, and change on the Cache la Poudre River

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dc.contributor.authorLaflin, Rose, author
dc.contributor.authorColorado Water Resources Research Institute, publisher
dc.coverage.spatialCache la Poudre River (Colo.)
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T07:28:08Z
dc.date.available2007-01-03T07:28:08Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.descriptionJune 2005.
dc.description.abstractThe 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.
dc.description.sponsorshipFunding 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.
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dc.identifierCWRRICPR100001.pdf
dc.identifierCCRICWRI100001SRPT
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10217/646
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relationWWDL
dc.relation.ispartofSpecial Reports
dc.relation.ispartofSpecial report (Colorado Water Resources Research Institute), no. 15
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dc.subject.lcshIrrigation canals and flumes -- Colorado
dc.subject.lcshCache la Poudre River (Colo.)
dc.subject.lcshLand settlement -- Colorado
dc.subject.lcshIrrigation -- Research -- Colorado
dc.titleIrrigation, settlement, and change on the Cache la Poudre River
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