Chimney Hollow Reservoir
New reservoir and dam west of Loveland, Colorado, USA. The pin is on the Chimney Hollow valley the reservoir fills.
At a glance
| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| Why Is Colorado Building a 22 MILLION TON Rock Wall in the Rocky Mountains? | Aaron Witt | subject | America’s largest new dam project in decades, toured from crest to quarry. |
Why Is Colorado Building a 22 MILLION TON Rock Wall in the Rocky Mountains? — Aaron Witt (2025)
Source: Readwise highlight
The Chimney Hollow Reservoir is a collaboration between 12 northeastern Colorado water providers to provide consistent and clean water year round for about 825,000 people.
- Role: subject
- In the video: The whole video tours the site: a 350-foot earth-and-rock dam with an asphalt core laid in nine-inch lifts by a Swiss machine, a 2,000-foot emergency spillway, an on-site quarry that supplied about 22 million tons of rock, and a valve house that fills and drains the reservoir.
- Why it matters: The subject of the video; storage here lets Front Range communities draw West Slope water at a steady rate.