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Item Title
Havemeyer-Willcox Canal System, Rifle, Garfield County, CO
Location
Rifle vicinity, CO
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1968.
Notes
Survey number HAER CO-3
Significance: The canal system is an example of a turn-of-the-century irrigation project linked with a period of intensive development of the Colorado Western Slope. The system is a distinctive example of turn-of-the-century engineering and construction featuring innovative use of reinforced concrete.
Subjects
BankingSugar IndustryAgriculture
Collection
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
1. Overall view of site, viewed from SW, from below pumphouse structure, facing NE toward pumphouse/forebay. HAER, COLO, 23-RIF, V, 1-1
2. Interior view of Pumphouse, looking East. HAER, COLO, 23-RIF, 1A
3. Pumphouse viewed in 3/4 profile from South looking North. HAER COLO, 23-RIF.V, 1A-Z
4. North elevation of pumphouse, looking from the South, facing North. HAER COLO, 23-RIF. V, 1A-3
5. West wall of pumphouse, facing East. HAER, COLO, 23-RIF, V, 1A
6. Overall view of site, from NW showing North and West walls of pumphouse. HAER, COLO, 23-RIF. V, 1A-5
7. East wall of pumphouse, facing West. HAER, COLO, 23-RIF. V, 1A
8. Concrete stress block viewed from SE.
9. Concrete cistern viewed from North, facing South. HAER, COLO, 23-RIF, V, 1C-1
10. 3/4 view of Forebay, facing North and West. HAER, COLO, 23 RIF, V, 1D-1
11. East elevation of forebay structure, looking West.
12. North elevation of forebay structure, looking South, displaying relationship between forebay and pumphouse. HAER, COLO, 23-RIF, V, 1D-3
13. North elevation of forebay structure, showing trash racks, facing South.
14. Forebay structure from hillside to the North. Viewed toward the South and East (elevated view) showing trash racks and floor plan. HAER, COLO, 23-RIF, V,1D-1
15. Conduit support block, facing northeast, viewed from the southeast. HAER, COLO, 23-RIF, V, 1E-1
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