Hydrohistorian
Excavating for new reservoir at Slater, Mo.
Library of Congress · 1901 · Detroit Publishing Co.
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Detroit Publishing Company Collection, LC-DIG-det-4a21274 No known restrictions on publication. Archive record ↗ · Rights
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Before the concrete dams: a reservoir dug by teams and scrapers, one load at a time. Most storage in the West started like this, and a good deal of the small storage still standing was built this way.
Shows: The ordinary way a reservoir was made before machinery, and how many animals it took.
What this does not let you conclude: Any Colorado reservoir, or a capacity. The storage figures beside this are measured now, in acre-feet, by people who did not dig it. 10 October 1901.
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