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A Channel for Life: Gunnison Tunnel

Authors: Jones, Jenny
Year: 2011
Journal: Civil Engineering Magazine, Vol. 81(6), pp. 48-51
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
DOI: 10.1061/ciegag.0000551

Abstract

After a harrowing expedition down the Gunnison River through Colorado’s Black Canyon, Abraham Lincoln Fellows and his surveying partner, William W. Torrence, helped spur the construction of Gunnison Tunnel and the delivery of badly needed irrigation water to farmland.

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