WAT. Water and Water Rights
Found in 38 Collections and/or Records:
Adrienne Anderson collection of student papers
Alonzo F. Polhamus family papers
Photographs, a diary, and water surveys pertaining to the Granby, Colorado, area. Other topics include politics, investments, the Mexican boundary commission, and the Polhamus family.
Arkansas Improvement Company ledgers
The Arkansas Improvement Company was formed to build the Mississippi, Hamburg and Western Railway in southern Arkansas.
Barker Dam collection
The Barker Dam collection contains both a photographic scrapbook of the building of the dam from 1907-1911 and negatives of the resurfacing of the dam from 1946-1947. The dam is located in southwest corner of Boulder County, and east of Nederland, CO. The completion of the dam created Barker Reservoir.
Charles J. Moynihan papers
Charles Sievers papers
A civil engineer, Charles Sievers (1880-1965) had extensive experience with railroad and irrigation projects, among them the Rio Grande Dam above Creede, the Moffat Tunnel, and many others. During the 1930s, he was a supervisor for the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and the Public Works Administration. The collection contains construction contracts, evaluation circulars and reports, employee time records, equipment registers and other material from Sievers' projects.
Colorado Water Congress records
Conrad McBride papers
Conrad McBride was a long-term CU Boulder Political Science professor and an expert on the American presidency and natural resource management. The McBride Collection consists of textbooks, bound reports, and congressional records spanning the years 1930-1993.
Denver Flood and Flood Control collection
Contains newspaper clippings about the flood of June 16, 1965 and about planning for future flood control including the proposed construction of Chatfield Dam.
Denver Planning Office publications
Collection contains publications of the Denver Planning Office and newspaper articles about Denver City planning. Includes an article titled "Founding and History of the Denver Planning Office" (1948-1954) and 1960s proposals for Denver City and regional planning.
E. Grosvenor Plowman papers
Plowman served as Executive Assistant to the Denver Board of Water Commissioners during the period from August 15, 1933, to April 1, 1936. This collection contains many various materials pertaining to water rates and sources, Board meeting minutes and reports, maps, charts, facility projects and maintenance, etc. as well as items from Plowman’s personal life such as notebooks and scrapbooks.
Earl Mosley papers
Earl L. Mosley (1883-1996) was the manager of the Denver Water Board from 1950-1966, and helped develop the Blue River Water Diversion Project, including the Dillon Reservoir and Harold E. Roberts Tunnel. The collection contains photocopies of newspaper clippings, photos and correspondence.
Edwin C. Johnson papers
Frank Evans papers
Frank H. Blair papers
Frank L. Delaney papers
Fred Case papers
This collection contains documents relating to the Pacific Southwest Inter-Agency Committee and the Phreatophyte Subcommittee. These documents include meeting minutes, memorandum, correspondence, as well as research reports, both bound and printed concerning Phreatophytes and the work of the Phreatophyte Subcommittee. Also contains publications concerning soil conservation and recreation in the West.
George Mairs Bull papers
Gilbert F. White collection
Harold R. Koster collection
The papers of Harold R. Koster consist of records from his career in real estate and insurance and his term in the Colorado House of Representatives from 1967 – 1974. Also included are items concerning his membership and interest in the Rotary International.
J. Edgar Chenoweth papers
J. Edgar Chenoweth (1897-1986) served as assistant District Attorney (1929-1933) and county judge (1933-1941) of Las Animas County, Colorado. Except for 1949-1950, he was the Republican Congressman for Colorado’s Third District from 1940 until 1965. The collection contains his political correspondence, subject files, scrapbooks, and photographs.
Jasper Lake Dam collection
John C. Bell papers
John P. Elliott, Sr. papers
The John P. Elliott Sr. Papers consists of maps, engineering records, business correspondence and documents relating to Elliott’s development of the Homestake Water Diversion Project, northwest of Leadville, Colorado as well as numerous other projects. The collection also includes genealogy of the Elliott family, information on the Denver-Boulder Turnpike and information on Elliott’s career in politics.
Judd Construction Company papers
The Judd Construction Company, owner Samuel Judd, Papers consist of maps and plans of buildings and structures throughout the west, the majority being in the Denver/Boulder area.
Louis G. Puls papers
Louis G. Puls was director of the United States Bureau of Reclamation, Division 11. After retiring from the Bureau in 1962, he worked for twenty years on the consulting boards for major water projects worldwide. The Louis G. Puls Collection contains papers related to projects in the United States, Honduras, Mexico, and the USSR. Also included are materials related to Puls’s grandfather, William Norton Searcy, and mining and corporate law in the Silverton area at the turn of the century.
Morris Garnsey papers
Morris E. Garnsey (1906-1992) was professor of economics at the University of Colorado from 1937 to 1971. His papers include material covering water and water resources, natural resources, and economic data for Colorado. One section of publications covers economic data for western states besides Colorado.
Nathan Boyd letter and publication
Seven page letter from Nathan Boyd to the President of the University of Colorado on the Elephant Buttes Dam in Southern New Mexico, plus a copy of a report on the dam Nathan Boyd submitted to the federal government (State Department).
Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District collection
Reports, pamphlets, maps and history of the Colorado-Big Thompson water diversion project.