Ditch Design and Construction

Ditch Design and Construction


The Roots of Colorado Irrigation

  • The Anasazi: Colorado's first irrigators
  • The Acequia tradition from New Mexico
  • The California Forty-Niners
  • Gold!
  • Boulder's First Ditches
  • Bigger and Longer Ditches
  • What rules would Colorado follow?
  • Early Ditch-Digging Technology
  • The Fresno Scraper
  • Boulder's Reservoir-building era
  • 1930's: Dust Bowl Drought
  • The Feds Bring West-Slope Water to Boulder Ditches
  • More Drought Pushes City/C-BT Partnership
  • Ditch Construction Now
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