Holding fast to the cliffs high above the San Miguel River, the Hanging Flume is much more than a marvel of engineering. It is a statement driven in stone – a monument to an era of innovation and “can-do” attitude in the 1880s. The Flume, an open water chute, was used to transfer 80 million gallons of water per 24-hour period from the San Miguel River through 13 miles of wooden flume and earthen ditch to the northern most Brancroft Claim for placer mining, located just four miles from the confluence of the San Miguel and the Delores River. In the spring of 2012 a team of experts reconstructed 48 feet of the Hanging Flume for the benefit of the public. Please click on the link and below and you will experience the reconstruction project, "Flume Fever".
Posted on: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 05:54:32 +0000