Amazon Quiz: This structure holds the largest reservoir of water in North America. Which city is it located near?
Options:
1) Denver, Colorado
2) Phoenix, Arizona
3) Boulder City, Nevada
4) Salt Lake City, Utah
Answer: Denver, Colorado
The largest reservoir entirely contained in Colorado is Blue Mesa Reservoir, with a capacity of 829,500 acre⋅ft (1.0 billion m3). The total storage of the reservoirs on this list is 3,763,458 acre⋅ft (4.6 billion m3).
It is an artificial reservoir located on the upper reaches of the Gunnison River in Gunnison County, Colorado. Blue Mesa Reservoir was created by the construction of Blue Mesa Dam, a 390-foot tall earthen fill dam constructed on the Gunnison by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation in 1966 for the purpose of generating hydroelectric power. It is managed as part of the Curecanti National Recreation Area, a unit of the National Park Service.
The reservoir extends east 20 miles and is composed of three main basins, the Iola, the Cebolla, and the Sapinero. U.S. 50 traverses the northern shore of both the Iola and Cebolla Basins before crossing the reservoir south on the Middle Bridge.
The southern shore of the Iola Basin can be reached via Colorado Highway 149, which begins at an intersection with U.S. 50 at the Lake City Bridge, approximately 7 miles west of the city of Gunnison.
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