{"id":972,"date":"2018-11-06T16:54:32","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T23:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.berthoudhistoricalsociety.org\/?p=972"},"modified":"2026-04-07T16:03:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T22:03:30","slug":"1901-map-of-the-big-thompson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/berthoudhistoricalsociety.org\/fr\/1901-map-of-the-big-thompson\/","title":{"rendered":"Carte de 1901 du Big Thompson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"972\" class=\"elementor elementor-972\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-24aa4cae e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"24aa4cae\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6514be93 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6514be93\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>En 1901, le D\u00e9partement de l&#039;Agriculture des \u00c9tats-Unis a publi\u00e9 un annuaire contenant une carte des <em><strong>\u00ab\u00a0R\u00e9servoirs sous la rivi\u00e8re Big Thompson et ses affluents.\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong><\/em> Puisque la rivi\u00e8re Little Thompson qui coule pr\u00e8s de Berthoud est un affluent de la rivi\u00e8re Big Thompson, la carte montre les lacs et les foss\u00e9s de la r\u00e9gion de Berthoud. Bien qu&#039;il y ait des erreurs et des fautes d&#039;orthographe sur la carte, elle montre plus ou moins pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment les premiers trac\u00e9s des foss\u00e9s Home Supply et Handy qui approvisionnent en eau d&#039;irrigation les fermes de Berthoud. Les deux foss\u00e9s s&#039;\u00e9tendent d\u00e9sormais plus loin dans la r\u00e9gion de Johnstown.<\/p><p>Les foss\u00e9s Home Supply et Handy ont commenc\u00e9 \u00e0 d\u00e9tourner l&#039;eau de la rivi\u00e8re Big Thompson au d\u00e9but des ann\u00e9es 1880 afin de fournir de l&#039;eau d&#039;irrigation d&#039;\u00e9t\u00e9 aux agriculteurs locaux et de l&#039;eau domestique toute l&#039;ann\u00e9e aux nouvelles villes de Loveland et Berthoud. Lorsque cela \u00e9tait possible, les agriculteurs \u00ab sous \u00bb les foss\u00e9s ont construit de petits r\u00e9servoirs o\u00f9 ils pouvaient stocker l&#039;eau d&#039;irrigation pour l&#039;utiliser sur leurs fermes tout au long de l&#039;\u00e9t\u00e9. Auparavant, l&#039;eau d&#039;irrigation n&#039;\u00e9tait disponible qu&#039;au printemps et au d\u00e9but de l&#039;\u00e9t\u00e9, lorsque la fonte des neiges dans les montagnes faisait couler la rivi\u00e8re Big Thompson \u00e0 un niveau \u00e9lev\u00e9.<\/p><p>Il convient de noter le groupe de r\u00e9servoirs Welch au centre gauche de la carte. Alors que les lacs \u00e9taient des entit\u00e9s distinctes lorsque la carte a \u00e9t\u00e9 publi\u00e9e en 1901, en 1905, le processus de consolidation en un seul plan d&#039;eau \u00e9tait en cours. Cette ann\u00e9e-l\u00e0, les lacs furent achet\u00e9s par la Handy Ditch Company pour un co\u00fbt de 10 000 $. Le <em>Bulletin Berthoud<\/em> not\u00e9, <em>\u00ab Au printemps dernier, suffisamment d\u2019eau a \u00e9t\u00e9 gaspill\u00e9e dans le Big Thompson pour irriguer le nord du Colorado pendant plusieurs ann\u00e9es. En augmentant la capacit\u00e9 de stockage de nos lacs, une grande quantit\u00e9 d\u2019eau peut \u00eatre \u00e9conomis\u00e9e. 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