A mechanized shovel digging a trench for the Bingham Hill Reservoir pipeline in very rocky area on Graves Dairy land, a part of the Fort Collins Municipal Water system. When residents feared that their water was contaminated, they built a new water treatment plant higher up in the Cache la Poudre Canyon, completed in 1905. Courtesy Fort Collins Local History Archive, H19549
A mechanized shovel digging a trench for the Bingham Hill Reservoir pipeline in very rocky area on Graves Dairy land, a part of the Fort Collins Municipal Water system. When residents feared that their water was contaminated, they built a new water treatment plant higher up in the Cache la Poudre Canyon, completed in 1905. Courtesy Fort Collins Local History Archive, H19549