Center of Southwest Studies

Collection  P 001:
Southwest  Colorado general photograph collection
Category VIII.5:  Western Colorado Power Company

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Title: Reading the gauge at Forebay Lake (Colo.)             
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SWP 001 VIII-05-37;     Negative# (if any):
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Subjects ~ Notes: Western Colorado Power Company; ; Reservoirs - Colorado - La Plata County - Pictorial works; Forebay Lake (Colo.)  ~  View of a person standing on the wooden walkway, bent over to read the gauge along a piliing of the wooden building on the reservoir. Also known as Four Base Lake, shown on the Electra Lake USGS 7.5' x 7.5' map, it is in La Plata County, Colorado.    Forebay is an engineering term to denote a storage bay located before the penstock. Forebay Lake (Colo.) is .5 mi WNW of Tacoma; in San Juan NF.

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