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    The ColoradoBig Thompson Project (abbreviated C-BT) is a federal water diversion project in Colorado designed to collect West Slope mountain water from...
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    and 8,366 ft (2550.0 m). When the Colorado-Big Thompson (C-BT) project is diverting water to northeastern Colorado, water collected in Lake Granby can...
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    The Big Thompson River is a tributary of the South Platte River, approximately 78 miles (126 km) long, in the U.S. state of Colorado. Originating in Forest...
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    The Little Thompson River is a tributary of the Big Thompson River and thence the South Platte River in the U.S. state of Colorado. The river's headwaters...
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    Alva B. Adams Tunnel (category Transportation buildings and structures in Grand County, Colorado)
    transmountain water project in Colorado, the Colorado-Big Thompson Project (C-BT). The tunnel transfers water from the western slope of the Colorado River drainage...
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    Shadow Mountain Lake (category Reservoirs in Colorado)
    Lake was authorized by the Colorado-Big Thompson bill, passed in 1937, which also created the Colorado-Big Thompson Project. Water from the Grand Lake-Shadow...
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    as part of the Colorado-Big Thompson Project. The dam is a project of the United States Bureau of Reclamation. Rivers portal Colorado portal List of rivers...
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    Horsetooth Reservoir (category Geography of Fort Collins, Colorado)
    federal Colorado-Big Thompson Project or "C-BT". Water distribution is currently managed by Reclamation and operated by the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy...
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    portions of the Colorado-Big Thompson Project, a large trans-basin water storage and delivery project that diverts water from the Colorado River under the...
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    and manages the project. Like its sister–project, the ColoradoBig Thompson Project, the Fry-Ark brings available water from Colorado's West Slope to the...
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    Granby Dam (category Dams on the Colorado River)
    Granby, the largest reservoir component of the Colorado-Big Thompson Project. Lake Granby stores Colorado River water that is diverted under the Continental...
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    Lake Estes (category Reservoirs in Colorado)
    acres (75 ha). The reservoir lies on the Big Thompson River and is a component of the Colorado-Big Thompson Project. Lake Estes sits at 7,522 feet (2,293 m)...
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    inundation of the valley by Horsetooth Reservoir as part of the Colorado-Big Thompson Project. Some of the former town site is located under the southern...
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    Green Mountain Reservoir (category Reservoirs in Colorado)
    store water to benefit Colorado's Western Slope. Created by President Roosevelt as part of the Colorado-Big Thompson Project in 1937, Green Mountain...
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    The Colorado Plateau is a physiographic and desert region of the Intermontane Plateaus, roughly centered on the Four Corners region of the Southwestern...
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    northeastern Colorado. Northern Water works with the Colorado-Big Thompson Project to transfer water from the Colorado Western Slope over the Continental Divide...
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    The Colorado River Storage Project is a United States Bureau of Reclamation project designed to oversee the development of the upper basin of the Colorado...
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    planned at the same time as the Grand Ditch, construction on the ColoradoBig Thompson Project (C-BT) did not begin until the 1930s. Today, the C-BT is the...
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    Lake Granby (category Lakes of Grand County, Colorado)
    in Colorado. It was created by the erection of Granby Dam, completed in 1950, as part of the Bureau of Reclamation's Colorado-Big Thompson Project. Water...
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    Water Lift Project U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Colorado Aqueduct Zetland, David (August 5, 2009). "Colorado River Aqueduct"...
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    Colorado-Big Thompson Project for flood control and irrigation. The dam is owned by the Bureau of Reclamation and operated by the Northern Colorado Water...
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  • Arizona Project (CAP) is a 336 mi (541 km) diversion canal in Arizona in the southern United States. The aqueduct diverts water from the Colorado River...
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    of the Colorado River. The watershed of the river, known as the Green River Basin, covers parts of the U.S. states of Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado. The Green...
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    now Namaqua Park. The nearby Big Thompson, Colorado Territory, post office opened on November 12, 1862. The Namaqua, Colorado Territory, post office operated...
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    upper Colorado basin to be transported eastward across the continental divide to the Colorado Front Range as part of the Colorado-Big Thompson Project. 40°06′42″N...
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  • Olympus Dam (category Dams in Colorado)
    49.5 feet, and a crest length of 320 feet. It is part of the Colorado-Big Thompson Project. On 16 June 1947, bids began to be placed for the dam-building...
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    Bibliography of Colorado Geography of Colorado History of Colorado Index of Colorado-related articles List of Colorado-related lists Outline of Colorado When available...
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    Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. Constructed...
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    Lake Powell (category Colorado River Storage Project)
    Lake Powell is a reservoir on the Colorado River in Utah and Arizona, United States. It is a major vacation destination visited by approximately two million...
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  • gravel. Water diversion projects, locally from the Cache la Poudre and other rivers, as well as the Colorado-Big Thompson Project, also supply needed water...
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