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9,336 ft (2,846 m) Website. Taylor Park Dam. Part of the Uncompahgre Project located on the western slope of central Colorado, the Taylor Park Dam was engineered by the Bureau of Reclamation. It is located on the Taylor River, a tributary of the Gunnison River, and the dam is used to create the Taylor Park Reservoir in Gunnison County, Colorado.
The largest reservoir entirely contained in Colorado is Blue Mesa Reservoir, with a capacity of 829,500 acre⋅ft (1.0 billion m 3 ). The total storage of the reservoirs on this list is 3,804,458 acre⋅ft (4.7 billion m 3 ), although not all is allocated for use by Colorado.
Gunnison — Colorado. The Taylor River rises between Star Peak and Crystal Peak in Colorado's Elk Mountains in the northeast part of Gunnison County, near the Continental Divide . [2] Flowing southeast, the river goes through Taylor Park Reservoir, created by the Taylor Park Dam. From there it flows southwest.
Black Canyon of the Gunnison, June 2016. The Gunnison River is formed by the confluence of the Taylor and East rivers at Almont in eastern Gunnison County, Colorado.Just past the town of Gunnison, the river begins to swell into the expanse of Blue Mesa Reservoir, a 36-mile-long (58 km) reservoir formed by Blue Mesa Dam, where it receives the Lake Fork of the Gunnison.
This is a list of dams on the Colorado River system of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. The Colorado runs 1,450 mi (2,330 km) from the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf of California, draining parts of seven U.S. states and two Mexican states. The river system is one of the most heavily developed in the world, with fifteen dams ...
Barker Meadow Reservoir in Boulder County, Colorado. Barr Lake in Barr Lake State Park. Bear Creek Lake in Lakewood, Colorado. Big Soda Lake (Colorado) in Lakewood, Colorado. Bierstadt Lake in Larimer County, Colorado. Bison Reservoir in Victor, Colorado. Black Lake at Vail Pass in Eagle County, Colorado.
S. Saint Charles Reservoir. Sanchez Reservoir. Seaman Reservoir. Shadow Mountain Lake. Silver Jack Dam. Smith Reservoir (Costilla County, Colorado) Standley Lake. Sugar Loaf Dam.
This is a list of some important mountain passes in the Rocky Mountains of the U.S. State of Colorado. ... Taylor Pass: 11,929 feet 3,636 m