"Aurora and Colorado Springs are building a huge dam or rock on Homestake Creek southwest of Red Cliff. The dam will have an upstream impervious face of asphalt laid on a blanket of gravel atop the rock. There is a concrete curtain extending below the dam foundation into fock formations and into the ountainsides at both ends of the dam. The asphalt face is technically known as asphaltic concrete, the asphalt being binder instead of cement in what...

Standing on the dam after the dedication, John P. "Jack" Elliott Dam, Homestake Project, on June 18, 1967. Standees were the Beck children and their grandparents, Joe H. and Johanna Fear.

East Homestake pipeline delivering water to the Homestake Dam reservoir on May 28, 2003.

"Aurora and Colorado Springs are building a huge dam or rock on Homestake Creek southwest of Red Cliff. The dam will have an upstream impervious face of asphalt laid on a blanket of gravel atop the rock. There is a concrete curtain extending below the dam foundation into fock formations and into the ountainsides at both ends of the dam. The asphalt face is technically known as asphaltic concrete, the asphalt being binder instead of cement in what...

"Aurora and Colorado Springs are building a huge dam or rock on Homestake Creek southwest of Red Cliff. The dam will have an upstream impervious face of asphalt laid on a blanket of gravel atop the rock. There is a concrete curtain extending below the dam foundation into fock formations and into the ountainsides at both ends of the dam. The asphalt face is technically known as asphaltic concrete, the asphalt being binder instead of cement in what...

"Aurora and Colorado Springs are building a huge dam of rock on Homestake Creek southwest of Red Cliff. The dam will have an upstream impervious face of asphalt laid on a blanket of gravel atop the rock. There is a concrete curtain extending below the dam foundation into fock formations and into the mountainsides at both ends of the dam. The asphalt face is technically known as asphaltic concrete, the asphalt being binder instead of cement in what...

East Homestake pipeline delivering water to the Homestake Dam reservoir on May 3, 2004, following a spring snow.

A view of the long flume on the Conger Mesa Ditch. [photo says 1910, McCoy Memoirs says 1909]. "The Conger Mesa irrigation ditch in 1909 was nearly three fourths wooden flume in Rock Creek Canyon. A year later, this section of the flume went out resulting in major catastrophe for the Railroad and Ditch Company. Nearly 200 feet of track was covered with mud and rock to a depth of from five to sixteen feet and required 200 men working in ten hour...