A portion of the "Grand Ditch," a stretch of the Colorado River, just ten miles from its headwaters in Rocky Mountain National Park. This "ditch" is part of a grand diversion project that sends Colorado River water from the Rocky Mountains' Western Slope over the mountains to the Eastern Slope, where 80 percent of Coloradans live.
Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.