The South Park water transfers : the geography of resource expropriation in Colorado, 1859-1994

This thesis examines the agricultural-to-municipal water transfer process and the transformation of South Park, a high intermontane basin located west of the Denver metropolitan area in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. The formal appropriation and exchange of water in this area began in 1859...

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Main Author: Kindquist, Cathy Elsa
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/4815