Re: Idaho Springs Tank

Posted by Chris Walker on
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Chris Walker wrote

.....the first W.T. was there on the floodplain of the Clear Creek, the Colorado Central raising an embankment across the meander.  Maybe as another thought not yet put forward, the Clear Creek became angry and washed it out or undermined it?.....

Given the nature of Clear Creek, that the roadbed at the 1st W.T. location has been constructed, on a bend from fill material with no visible defence from raging highwater in the first oldest picture, not built upon bedrock then it is not unreasonable to suggest washing out or undermining of the Tank foundations.   I even found a follow on picture that includes the Tank to suggest that is not the case taken opposite the Natatorium.  Those extra houses are a clue there, if I had found that picture I wouldn't have suggested a washout, yet upstream around this time a new retaining wall appears, still could be a factor.  

Rick or Derrell:  Is there any mention of this W.T. location in the C&S inventory of 1899(?), something I've never seen to read.
 
Yet you still cling to this idea that the Newhouse Tunnel expansion is the reason the 1st W.T. dissappeared, I am just challenging that idea, given the amount of urban sprawl in those and following years, as the wasterockpile "expansion" continued.   I certainly had referred to Harry Brunk's date of around 1904 for the Tunnel completion, clearly wrote "the Mill was built between 1904 and 1910", I never thought to look in the Gilpin Era Book for anything on the Newhouse, a book that is published in 2009 vs 1982, by an Idaho Springs dwelling author vs Harry, living at the time in Nebraska.

John Schapekahm wrote

Meanwhile, back at the tank, I am ...
Just. Wow. Mind. Blown. - - - amazed those silly, silly eastside homeowners decided on remaining in their vulnerable neighborhood after your Clear Creek cataclysm wiped out the C&S water tank and sent the railroad packing, tail between its legs, to the safe and secure high ground for the site of their new west side tank site.

In my other thread postings I've included a number of clues to show that not all is as we seem it to be, and there are unknown reasons for that which will never be revealed.  Also I really have to wonder why you expand, elevate and exaggerate my suggestions into statements e.g. "Clear Creek Cataclysm"   Hmmmm.  Because of this I have noticed no-one else now dares enter this particular discussion.  

Has anyone seen a picture of a Newhouse Tunnel Crane lifting the C&S W.T.?