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29-651: Northern Water manages numerous water infrastructure projects, including reservoirs, pipelines and tunnels, dams, hydroelectric plants, and feeder canals. For example, the Alva B. Adams Tunnel brings water from the Upper Colorado River basin across the mountains to the South Platte River watershed in northern Colorado. Also, Horsetooth Reservoir , west of Fort Collins is among the more well-known reservoirs Northern Water manages. The Northern Integrated Supply Project

58-439: A long illness. Adams was immediately mentioned as a potential successor, alongside U.S. representative Edward T. Taylor . Within 24 hours of Nicholson's death, news leaked that the governor, William Ellery Sweet , had already more-or-less made up his mind to appoint Adams, due in large part to the influence of Adams's uncle, Billy Adams , who by then was a powerful state senator. The leak of Adams's name, however, provoked

87-572: A serious heart attack in Washington, D.C., on November 25, 1941. He survived the initial attack, but he was ordered to remain in bed by his physicians. In the early morning of December 1, 1941, he suffered a subsequent heart attack at his D.C. residence at the Park Hotel, which proved fatal. The Alva B. Adams Tunnel under Rocky Mountain National Park is named for him. The Alva B. Adams tunnel

116-451: A significant backlash from pro- prohibition elements in the state. After the backlash, Governor Sweet announced he would not make an appointment for several weeks; during that time several more names were floated for the position. Ultimately, Governor Sweet returned to his initial choice, and Adams was appointed United States senator on May 17, 1923. Adams's appointment made him the first U.S. Senator from Colorado to have been born in

145-559: A straight line under the Continental Divide from west to east, passing under Otis Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park . At its deepest point, the tunnel is about 3,800 feet (1,200 m) below the surface of the mountain peaks. Construction began on 15 June 1940, but was suspended as a result of World War II priorities, from the end of 1942 to August 1943. The tunnel was holed through on 31 March 1944, an event that

174-544: Is a project managed by Northern Water which proposes to build two new reservoirs in Northern Colorado. The proposed Glade Reservoir will take and store water from the Cache la Poudre River , and the proposed Galeton Reservoir will pull water from the South Platte River . However, the project faces organized opposition. The Chimney Hollow Reservoir Project involves the construction of a new reservoir to store water collected from

203-464: Is the first major dam to be built in Colorado in twenty years. The larger of the two dams will be over 350 feet (110 meters) high. The reservoir's surface area will be 740 acres (300 hectares). The Municipal Subdistrict, a subordinate organization of Northern Water, was formed on July 6, 1970. The subdistrict was set up to take advantage of some unallocated Colorado River water that could also be piped over

232-588: Is the key component of the largest transmountain water diversion in the state of Colorado—the Colorado-Big Thompson Project (C-BT). The tunnel is 13.1 miles (21.1 km) long and has a concrete lined diameter of 9.75 feet (2.97 m). The tunnel runs in a straight line under the Continental Divide from west to east and passing under Rocky Mountain National Park . The Orman-Adams House in Pueblo, where Alva B. Adams lived from 1918 until his death in 1941,

261-484: Is the principal component of the largest transmountain water project in Colorado, the Colorado-Big Thompson Project (C-BT). The tunnel transfers water from the western slope of the Colorado River drainage to the eastern Front Range of Colorado. It is 13.1 miles (21.1 km) long, with a concrete lined diameter of 9.75 feet (2.97 m). The tunnel drops 109 feet (33 m) in elevation along its length and runs in

290-545: The Colorado River Compact . Entrance (West Portal, Underwater) 40°14′28″N 105°48′09″W  /  40.241200°N 105.802450°W  / 40.241200; -105.802450  ( Entrance ) Exit (East Portal) 40°19′37″N 105°34′55″W  /  40.326817°N 105.581991°W  / 40.326817; -105.581991  ( Exit ) Alva B. Adams Alva Blanchard Adams Sr. (October 29, 1875 – December 1, 1941)

319-621: The Columbia Law School , where he earned his law degree in 1899. He returned to Colorado after completing his education and was admitted to the bar later that year, beginning a law practice in Pueblo, Colorado . Throughout his early adulthood, Alva Adams's father remained highly active in politics as a leader of the Colorado Democratic Party . In 1909, Alva B. Adams became county attorney of Pueblo County, Colorado . In 1911, he

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348-598: The Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation during the 73rd and 74th Congresses and chaired the Committee on Public Lands and Surveys from the 75th through 77th Congresses . Alva Blanchard Adams was the only son of Alva Adams and his wife Ella Charlotte ( née Nye). Alva Adams was a Colorado pioneer, brought to the Colorado Territory with his siblings by his mother due to an outbreak of tuberculosis in southern Wisconsin, where his father, John Adams ,

377-673: The U.S. Senate to fill a vacancy during the first session of the 68th Congress . Even though he had been appointed in May 1923, Congress did not convene its first session until December of that year. A first edition of the Official Congressional Directory indicates he did not serve on any committees that session. After Adams was elected in 1932 to the 73rd Congress , he was appointed to several standing committees. Overall, he served on five standing committees and three select or special committees . Adams also served as chairman of

406-671: The Windy Gap Reservoir in Grand County, Colorado . The reservoir, the major component of the Windy Gap Firming Project, a subdivision of Northern Water, will help store water otherwise lost in wet years due to the insufficient capacity of the Windy Gap Reservoir and other reservoirs on Colorado's Western Slope . The reservoir will store water from existing water rights. Construction on the reservoir's two dams (one on

435-1155: The divide for the benefit of Northern Waters customers. The Windy Gap Project, as it came to be called, provided for the construction of a diversion dam near Granby in Grand County . Now the Windy Gap Reservoir is able to divert about 48,000 acre feet of water each year to users within Northern Water's service area. Directors of the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District represent eight counties in northeastern, Colorado. MIKE APPLEGATE Term Ends: Sept. 28, 2023 BILL EMSLIE Term Ends: Sept. 28, 2025 JENNIFER GIMBEL Term Ends: Sept. 28, 2024 SUE ELLEN HARRISON Term Ends: Sept. 28, 2026 DON MAGNUSON Term Ends: Sept. 28, 2024 GENE MANUELLO Term Ends: Sept. 28, 2026 ROB MCCLARY Term Ends: Sept. 28, 2023 DAVID NETTLES Term Ends: Sept. 28, 2026 JOHN RUSCH Term Ends: Sept. 28, 2025 DALE TROWBRIDGE Term Ends: Sept. 28, 2023 TODD WILLIAMS Term Ends: Sept. 28, 2025 DENNIS YANCHUNAS Term Ends: Sept. 28, 2024 Alva B. Adams Tunnel The Alva B. Adams Tunnel

464-595: The end of the war. In 1920, Adams delivered the keynote address at the Democratic state convention, in which he gave a vigorous endorsement of President Woodrow Wilson and the League of Nations . At that convention, Adams was courted as a potential candidate for governor, but refused to run. In 1921, Adams was appointed to another special commission to Washington, D.C., this time seeking flood relief. In March 1923, incumbent U.S. senator Samuel D. Nicholson died after

493-400: The north end and one on the south end) began in 2021, and water will begin flowing into it in 2025. Located just west of Carter Lake in southern Larmier County, the new reservoir will hold 90,000 acre-feet (110,000,000 cubic meters) of water, water that will be used for municipal water supply for nine municipalities and three water districts on Colorado's Front Range . The $ 690 million project

522-513: The peak snow melt months of May to July. The tunnel is capable of carrying a water flowrate of 550 cubic feet per second (16 m /s). An average annual total of 213,000 acre-feet (0.263 km ) of water is transported through the tunnel each year. The tunnel can transport as much as 1,100 acre-feet (1,400,000 m ) in one day. The water transferred through the tunnel is considered part of Colorado's Colorado River water allocation of 3,880,000 acre-feet (4.79 km ) per year as agreed to in

551-604: The pumps on the western slope, a 5-inch (13 cm) diameter watertight nitrogen-filled conduit carrying a 69,000 volt electric power transmission line is mounted on the roof of the tunnel. This power is used to run the pumps on the western side of the tunnel, while surplus power is sold. West slope water is stored on the Front Range in Mary's Lake, Lake Estes, Carter Lake (all reservoirs), Flatiron Reservoir, Horsetooth Reservoir and Boulder Reservoir for power generation or release after

580-618: The state. Adams's appointment to the Senate was only for the period until the next general election, in November 1924, when a special election would be held for the remaining two years of Nicholson's term. Adams, however, declined to run in the 1924 special election, opting to instead run in the regularly scheduled 1924 U.S. senate election for a full six-year term against Republican incumbent Lawrence C. Phipps . The Democrats ultimately lost both U.S. Senate elections; Adams received just 44% of

609-542: The tunnel. Lake Granby is the second largest reservoir in the state of Colorado, with a nominal capacity of 470,000 acre-feet (0.58 km ). Once the water reaches the Front Range on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains , it is used to generate electricity as it falls almost half a mile (0.8 km) through five power plants on its way down the Front Range. To get the power from the Front Range power plants back to

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638-468: The vote. In 1932 , upon the decision of Senator Charles W. Waterman not to seek re-election, Adams ran to succeed him, with Oscar L. Chapman managing his campaign, and narrowly won the Democratic primary over former state Attorney General John T. Barnett. Waterman died before his term expired, creating a vacancy, but Adams declined to be appointed to the seat and was not a candidate in the special election. Accordingly, state party chairman Walter Walker

667-571: Was a state legislator. Alva decided to remain in Colorado when the rest of his family returned to Wisconsin; he grew to become a successful merchant in the new state and eventually won three terms as governor of Colorado . His brothers ultimately returned to Colorado as well; his younger brother, William Herbert "Billy" Adams , also served three terms as governor of Colorado. Alva Blanchard Adams's middle name comes from his paternal grandmother, Eliza Blanchard. Eliza's younger brother, Alvin Blanchard,

696-512: Was an American lawyer and Democratic politician from Pueblo, Colorado . He served nine years as a United States senator from Colorado , serving by appointment from 1923 to 1924, then serving again from 1933 until his death in 1941. He was the first U.S. senator from Colorado who was born in Colorado. He is the namesake of the Alva B. Adams Tunnel under Rocky Mountain National Park . His father, Alva Adams , and uncle, Billy Adams , both served as governors of Colorado. Alva B. Adams

725-643: Was appointed a regent of the State University of Colorado and was elected city attorney of Pueblo. After the United States entered World War I , Adams was selected to serve on a special commission from Colorado to Washington, D.C. , to advocate for Colorado's capacity to produce and warehouse war materiel. In 1918, Adams was commissioned as a major in the United States Army Judge Advocate General's Corps , where he served through

754-521: Was appointed to the seat. In the election, Adams narrowly defeated Republican nominee Karl C. Schuyler , but Walker narrowly lost to Schuyler in the special election. Adams was re-elected in 1938 in a landslide. He died in office from a myocardial infarction , also known as a heart attack, in Washington, D.C. in 1941, just days before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor . Alva Adams was first appointed to

783-638: Was born October 29, 1875, in Del ;Norte , Colorado Territory . During his childhood, his father, Alva Adams , was elected the fifth governor of Colorado , and later was elected to two more non-consecutive terms. Alva B. Adams was raised and received his early education in Colorado, but for high school he was sent to the Phillips Academy in Massachusetts, where he graduated in 1893. He then attended Yale University , graduating in 1896, and went on to

812-586: Was broadcast throughout the United States by NBC Radio. The tunnel was posthumously named for its chief advocate, US Senator Alva B. Adams . West of the Continental Divide, the input of the tunnel is water pumped from Windy Gap Reservoir , Willow Creek Reservoir and other North Fork of the Colorado River drainages to Lake Granby . From Lake Granby, the water is pumped into Shadow Mountain reservoir and then flows by gravity to Grand Lake , Colorado's largest natural body of water, from where it pours through

841-506: Was the founder and namesake of Blanchardville, Wisconsin . Alva Blanchard Adams married twice. His first wife was Clyda Yorke Moses; they were married in August 1904, but she died just a year later in July 1905, leaving no children. In 1909, Adams married Elizabeth Leo Matty; they had four children together and were married for 32 years before his death in 1941. Alva Blanchard Adams suffered

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