Re: Idaho Springs Tank

Posted by Chris Walker on
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The 1st IdahoW.T. in question may have had a pumphouse in the foreground shadows, there is definitely something there, at a time when there are no other buildings on that section of ground.  Looking deeper into the picture it seems the roadbed was raised across an old meander or dry channel in the streambed of the Clear Creek.  In that case then the water would have been taken from the Creek.   Ever so slightly further West of this spot the drainage for Virginia Canyon enters the Clear Creek, this may have had a piped supply to the 1st Tank that wasn't reliable and /or constant.  Speculation on my part.

http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/fullbrowser/collection/p15330coll22/id/3356/rv/singleitem


In his Up Clear Creek article on the 2nd W.T. at Idaho, NG&SL Gazette Nov/Dec 84, Harry Brunk muses.... "There were at least two water tanks in Idaho Springs over the years.  In the early days of the Colorado Central, there was a tank just west of the area where the Argo Tunnel was built.  This tank was gone in later years but it was near enough to the Argo that I suspect that it may have been removed because it was in the way of the tunnel construction."