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Homestake Dam in the fall of 1966,
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"April 3, 1966, Leadville, Colo. Homestake Dam. M-K Co., Inc. [Morrison-Knudsen]. Coyote Shot, 850,000 cubic yards."
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"Aurora and Colorado Springs are building a huge dam or rock on Homestake Creek southwest of Red Cliff. The dam will have an upstream impervious face of asphalt laid on a blanket of gravel atop the rock. There is a concrete curtain extending below the dam foundation into fock formations and into the ountainsides at both ends of the dam. The asphalt face is technically known as asphaltic concrete, the asphalt being binder instead of cement in what...
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"Red line [midfield, left], estimated shot area; 3,800' of coyote hole explosives in 4 months."
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The completed Homestake Dam and reservoir in 1995. "Aurora and Colorado Springs are building a huge dam of rock on Homestake Creek southwest of Red Cliff. The dam will have an upstream impervious face of asphalt laid on a blanket of gravel atop the rock. There is a concrete curtain extending below the dam foundation into fock formations and into the mountainsides at both ends of the dam. The asphalt face is technically known as asphaltic concrete,...
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Standing on the dam after the dedication, John P. "Jack" Elliott Dam, Homestake Project, on June 18, 1967. Standees were the Beck children and their grandparents, Joe H. and Johanna Fear.
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Looking down on the Homestake Dam spillway in June 2000.
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East Homestake pipeline delivering water to the Homestake Dam reservoir on May 28, 2003.
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Homestake Dam reservoir on June 7, 2002.
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"Aurora and Colorado Springs are building a huge dam or rock on Homestake Creek southwest of Red Cliff. The dam will have an upstream impervious face of asphalt laid on a blanket of gravel atop the rock. There is a concrete curtain extending below the dam foundation into fock formations and into the ountainsides at both ends of the dam. The asphalt face is technically known as asphaltic concrete, the asphalt being binder instead of cement in what...
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"Aurora and Colorado Springs are building a huge dam or rock on Homestake Creek southwest of Red Cliff. The dam will have an upstream impervious face of asphalt laid on a blanket of gravel atop the rock. There is a concrete curtain extending below the dam foundation into fock formations and into the ountainsides at both ends of the dam. The asphalt face is technically known as asphaltic concrete, the asphalt being binder instead of cement in what...
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East Homestake pipeline delivering water to the Homestake Dam reservoir on May 3, 2004, following a spring snow.
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"Homestake Dam. The material from the last Coyote-hole blast is about cleaned up. The shovels are working on the far end of the blast zone. The lower quarry bench and ramp is now covered with water. The upper two benches have been dug out by working from 2 headings on each level and now are used as the haul roads for the far end. Aug. 1966."
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"Aurora and Colorado Springs are building a huge dam of rock on Homestake Creek southwest of Red Cliff. The dam will have an upstream impervious face of asphalt laid on a blanket of gravel atop the rock. There is a concrete curtain extending below the dam foundation into fock formations and into the mountainsides at both ends of the dam. The asphalt face is technically known as asphaltic concrete, the asphalt being binder instead of cement in what...
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"Paving Homestake Dam, October 1966. 1055 PH crane outfitted to perform more than one operation."
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Dedication of the John P. "Jack" Elliott Dam, Homestake Project, on June 18, 1967. Speakers were from Aurora and Colorado Springs.
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"Homestake Dam first coyote-hole blast to open the quarry for the dam's rock fill material; consumed 13 ton of explosives."
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East Homestake pipeline delivering water to the Homestake Dam reservoir on May 3, 2004, following a spring snow.
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John Mueller, Angela Beck and Buster Beck fishing at the Homestake reservoir on August 2, 2004.