Box 40

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series consists of materials created and gathered by Wright Water Engineers and Wright-McLaughlin Engineers while consulting for the City of Northglenn, Colorado, from the 1970s through the mid-1980s. Northglenn expanded rapidly in the mid-twentieth century, necessitating a significant investment in water infrastructure. The city also had to compete with other growing Denver suburbs, such as Thornton, for water rights. The suburbs purchased stock in irrigation companies north of Denver...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Beginning in the 1970s, the Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District (SECWCD) hired Wright Water Engineers (WWE) for a series of water rights-related cases in the Arkansas River Basin. Most required expert testimony from WWE and concerned ag-to-urban water transfers that diverted irrigation water from agricultural ditch companies, most famously the Rocky Ford Ditch, to Aurora and other Front Range cities in the 1980s. WWE also gathered data and provided stream modeling for SECWCD and...

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series consists of materials created and gathered by Wright Water Engineers and Wright-McLaughlin Engineers while consulting for the City of Northglenn, Colorado, from the 1970s through the mid-1980s. Northglenn expanded rapidly in the mid-twentieth century, necessitating a significant investment in water infrastructure. The city also had to compete with other growing Denver suburbs, such as Thornton, for water rights. The suburbs purchased stock in irrigation companies north of Denver...