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Montezuma Valley Irrigation Company System, Gauging Station, Dolores, Montezuma County, CO

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

A small square concrete gauge house with a pyramid roof stands beside a canal where water pours over a low concrete weir; a raw cut bank and pinyon-covered hillside rise behind.
From the archive · Library of Congress · Documentation compiled after 1968 Montezuma Valley Irrigation Company System, Gauging Station, 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,5C-1 No known restrictions on publication. Archive record ↗ · Rights

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The gauging station on the Montezuma Valley Irrigation Company's canal at Dolores: a weir to make the flow measurable and a hut to house the recorder. This is where the number the ditch reports comes from.

Shows: How a ditch company measured its own water: the weir, the stilling well and the gauge house.

What this does not let you conclude: Today's reading; the record beside it is DWR's. HAER's compilation date; the record gives the structure's initial construction as ca. 1885. Photograph by Jet Lowe.

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