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Grand Valley Diversion Dam, Half a mile north of intersection of I-70 & Colorado State Route 65, Cameo, Mesa County, CO

Library of Congress · Documentation compiled after 1968 · Gianfranco Archimede, photographer, for the Historic American Engineering Record

A long, low roller dam spans a wide river between canyon walls, its gate piers topped with small square towers; the river runs fast and pale over rocks in the foreground.
From the archive · Library of Congress · Documentation compiled after 1968 Grand Valley Diversion Dam, Half a mile north of intersection of I-70 & Colorado State Route 65, Cameo, Mesa County, CO Gianfranco Archimede, photographer, for the Historic American Engineering Record

Historic American Engineering Record, Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, HAER CO-90-1 No known restrictions on publication. Archive record ↗ · Rights

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The Grand Valley Diversion Dam at Cameo, the roller dam that turns the Colorado River into the Government Highline Canal. Finished in 1916, it was one of three American dams with German-designed roller gates.

Shows: The dam's full span, its roller-gate piers and the canyon it sits in.

What this does not let you conclude: What is being diverted today; the canal's dossier and the gage below the dam carry that. HAER's compilation date; photograph 1 of 51 in survey HAER CO-90, by Gianfranco Archimede. The dam was built 1913-1916.

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