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Truck dumping riprap on upstream slope

1940-07-15

Foster, W. H.

Truck dumping riprap on upstream slope of dam near station 23+50.

Pine R - 339

D003083

Subject terms:
Water diversion--Colorado--Pine River--Pictorial works--1938-1940
Pine River Irrigation Project (U.S.)--History
Vallecito Reservoir (Colo.)--History

Biographical note: Major C. A. Burns (grandfather of Dr. William R. Burns, the owner of the album containing the original photographic print) was a construction engineer with the Army Corps of Engineers in the construction of the Vallecito Dam, 1938-1940.

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