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Larimer/Weld Tb HotelType: Traditional | Size: Large 
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| Terrain: By: Snipermedic @ | Hide Date: 06/15/2016 | Status: Available Country: United States | State: Colorado Coordinates: N40° 36.238 W105° 00.373 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0 
This is on private property, but NO need to enter any bodies backyard, so be respectful! Permission was given by home owner! This cache was built by my Cache Hater Husband ;P turns out he only hates looking for caches but loves building them. This cache is filled with lots of swag and Trackables! Even has some geocache containers with logs inside already! Don't take all of them! Be respectful and leave some for other cachers!  Favorite Points help cachers discover fun finds. LIKE this Facebook Page (TBHoA) to see all the winners.
This is a safe TB hotel that can't be muggled! :) It gets its name because it is located right next to the Larimer/weld canal. Which is an important water source for many farmers. The development of irrigation in the 19th and early 20th centuries in northern Colorado was influenced by two principal factors. First, was the region’s semi-aridity. Annual precipitation in the Fort Collins area is less than 15 inches annually which is not enough to sustain most agricultural crops. This had a great influence on the first settlers’ development of the vast system of canals and reservoirs most of which are still in existence today. Second, is Colorado’s peculiar geography which leads to dependence on mountain snows to provide the majority of our water supply. More than 80 percent of the state’s precipitation falls on the west slope. The relatively brief spring runoff period necessitated reservoir development. No story on irrigation development would be complete without at least a mention of the unique system of water law that has its origins in the Poudre basin and since adopted by the majority of western states. The Doctrine of Prior Appropriation had its beginnings in a dispute between Greeley and Fort Collins over the proper use of the Poudre River water rights in dry times. What developed was the doctrine which Colorado codified in the state constitution in 1876. It is often referred to as “first in time, first in right.” In a nutshell, the first person to divert water for beneficial use has the priority claim to that amount of water. This is extremely important in dry years when there may not be enough water for everyone. Those with the earliest rights get the water first. When Teddy Roosevelt signed the Reclamation Act into law in 1902, the federal government took a larger and more active role in irrigation development in the arid west. With the creation of the Reclamation Service, money was made available (through the sale or public lands in the West) to build large scale water projects that would in essence allow for additional migration to the relatively undeveloped and under populated west. Northern Colorado took advantage of this program in the 1930s with the development of the Colorado-Big Thompson Project. This project when completed in 1957 brought the equivalent annual flow of another Poudre River into northeastern Colorado to help farmers and cities meet their supplemental water needs. This project developed out of the critical need for water during the 1930s drought. Civic leaders and farmers championed the C-BT as a way to assure that the severe water shortages that occurred during the 30s would not befall the region again.
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When Teddy Roosevelt signed the Reclamation Act into law
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