Colorado-Big Thompson Project
civil engineering project, United States
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In 1945 the Colorado–Big Thompson Project, the first federal interbasin water-diversion project in the United States, was completed. Water was diverted by tunnel beneath the Continental Divide in Rocky Mountain National Park to help irrigate cropland in northern Colorado. Another large project, the Fryingpan-Arkansas, diverts water from Fryingpan…
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