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Montezuma Valley Irrigation Company System, Concrete Diversion Dam, Dolores, Montezuma County, CO

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

A low concrete diversion dam with a timber flashboard section crosses a river below a brushy hillside; a cableway tower and cables span the channel overhead, and cottonwoods stand on the far bank.
From the archive · Library of Congress · Documentation compiled after 1968 Montezuma Valley Irrigation Company System, Concrete Diversion Dam, Dolores, Montezuma County, CO Jet Lowe, photographer, for the Historic American Engineering Record

Historic American Engineering Record, Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, HAER COLO,42-DOL.V,5G-1 No known restrictions on publication. Archive record ↗ · Rights

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The concrete diversion dam on the Dolores River that fed the Montezuma Valley system, with the cableway used to service it strung overhead.

Shows: The diversion structure and its flashboards as they stood when HAER recorded them.

What this does not let you conclude: The present diversion: McPhee Dam, completed 1985, changed how the valley takes its water. HAER's compilation date; photograph 1 of 3 in survey HAER CO-4-G, by Jet Lowe.

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