Description
Somewhere around 80 percent of Colorado’s water flows in rivers on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains. Problem being, most of the state’s population lives on the other side. So to provide enough water for the people on the eastern side of the mountains, water providers in Colorado pipe water under the mountains to make sure there is enough for people to use. I like spending some of my free-time tracing back precisely where my water actually comes from. So I went to the East Portal entrance of the Moffat Tunnel about 90 minutes northwest of Denver to see an important piece of water infrastructure near where I live.
From left-to-right:
- A train going through the Moffat Tunnel (kinda lucked out on timing). This particular train was going west transporting coal.
- The Moffat Tunnel East Portal
- A water map of Colorado, and an illustration depicting a cross section of the Moffat Tunnel's path beneath the Continental Divide.