![]() ![]() The model has already proved valuable by providing insight into the assembly process. As part of the preparation process, VA has constructed a 1/8-scale model of two sections of the Hanging Flume. ![]() Vertical Access will be working with other members of the project team over the next two months to acquire the necessary timbers and arrange construction logistics. The building process will not only help answer questions about the original construction techniques, but also provide residents and visitors of the area with a representation of the original structure. Taking dimensions and recording deterioration, the two technicians gathered information to prepare for reconstruction of the 50-foot long section that is slated to take place in April. Keith Luscinski and Donn Hewes were on site February 10-12 to gather more information on one particular “hanging” section, that is, a section that was built on the side of the cliff. Eight years later, VA technicians returned to the Flume to begin a new phase of work.Ī 1/8 scale model of the Hanging Flume, built by Vertical Access. In 2004, Vertical Access teamed with Robert Silman Associates, Anthony & Associates and Western Colorado Interpretive Association (et al.) to document representative sections of the Flume. It is known that at its completion, the Flume was a 10-mile long series of wooden and earthen troughs carrying 80 million gallons of water per day to gold mines. The velocity and salinity structures have been experimentally studied in a flume which is 167.8 m long, 0. In partially mixed and highly stratified mixed estuaries, the structure of stratified flow is complicated by density gradient and tidal reciprocating flow. Did the workers use a steam engine powered drill, or were the thousands of anchor holes in the sandstone drilled with only a hammer and chisel? How were the frames weighing more than 300 pounds moved into place? These and other questions have stirred up a “flume fever” in residents of neighboring communities. The salt-fresh water mixing is one of the basic topics of estuarine dynamics research. With much of the structure long gone and few existing original documents and photographs, myriad mysteries surround the construction process. Constructed by the Montrose Placer Mining Company between 18, the Hanging Flume ended its service life in 1903 and has since succumbed to weathering, rock fall and plundering by locals in need of timber. Vertical Access technician Donn Hewes surveying remaining elements of the Hanging Flume near historic Uravan, Colorado.ĭriving along the San Miguel River near the historic town of Uravan in western Colorado, one has to study the cliffs to find remnants of a 10 mile long structure built 120 years ago. ![]()
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