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BRANTNER DITCH HEADWORKS Headgate in foreground, floodgate and South Platte River diversion dam in background - Brantner Ditch, South Platte River, Brighton, Adams County, CO

Library of Congress, via Wikimedia Commons · Documentation compiled after 1968 · Historic American Engineering Record

A low concrete headgate with two hand-wheel gate stands, water spilling through it into a grassy channel; behind, a river pooled above a diversion dam and a line of cottonwoods.
From the archive · Library of Congress, via Wikimedia Commons · Documentation compiled after 1968 BRANTNER DITCH HEADWORKS Headgate in foreground, floodgate and South Platte River diversion dam in background - Brantner Ditch, South Platte River, Brighton, Adams County, CO Historic American Engineering Record

Historic American Engineering Record, Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, HAER COLO,1-BRIG.V,2-1; via Wikimedia Commons No known restrictions on publication. Archive record ↗ · Rights

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Brantner Ditch's headworks on the South Platte at Brighton, as the Historic American Engineering Record photographed them: the headgate in front, the floodgate and the river's diversion dam behind.

Shows: The arrangement of a Front Range headworks -- headgate, floodgate, diversion dam -- and the scale of the ditch against the river.

What this does not let you conclude: The gate's present condition, or how much water it passes today; the dossier beside it carries the record. HAER's compilation date; the photograph itself is undated in the record. The Library of Congress record is https://www.loc.gov/item/co0209/.

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