{"id":113509,"date":"2015-04-02T17:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T23:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/a-big-thirst\/"},"modified":"2015-04-02T17:00:01","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T23:00:01","slug":"a-big-thirst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/a-big-thirst\/","title":{"rendered":"A big thirst"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Jim Havey prepares to video the McElmo flume Wednesday evening. Havey is making a documentary about water in Colorado.<\/span>Sam Green\/Cortez Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

An filmmaker is including the Montezuma Valley in a documentary about water in Colorado.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Great Divide,\u201d by Jim Havey, will be released in the fall, with showings in Cortez and Durango in September.<\/p>\n

A trailer of the 90-minute film will be shown at today\u2019s water seminar put on by the Southwestern Water Conservation District at the DoubleTree hotel in Durango.<\/p>\n

Havey recently shot around Cortez and McPhee Reservoir.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Montezuma Valley is important because of the Dolores Tunnel built, in the late 1800s, that created an agricultural economy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Havey stopped at the historic McElmo Flume Wednesday for some footage. The wooden structure is all that remains of pioneer ingenuity to delivery water to the south valley and Ute Mountain Ute reservation.<\/p>\n

The portion of the flume that survives spans McElmo Creek east of Cortez and is part of an ongoing stabilization and preservation effort by the local community.<\/p>\n

Funding has mostly been raised to create a pullout and parking lot off U.S. 160 that will include interpretive panels explaining the history of water in this area.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe early engineering that went into delivering irrigation water here is a positive story I\u2019d like to tell,\u201d Havey said.<\/p>\n

Havey has been working with the Dolores Water Conservancy District, Montezuma Valley Water District, SWCD and Crow Canyon Archaeological Center.<\/p>\n

Footage of the Ancestral Puebloan ruins will show the water challenges that society faced 800 years ago, problems eerily similar to today.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Great Divide will play a very large role in remedying the unfortunate version of amnesia by which Westerners take their access to water for granted,\u201d states Patty Limerick, board chair of the Center for the American West.<\/p>\n

Havey Productions is an Emmy-award winning documentary film company that focuses on the West.<\/p>\n

Other Havey films include \u201cCentennial Statehouse\u201d, \u201cBroomfield, Spirit of the American Dream\u201d, \u201cCode of the West in Wyoming\u201d, \u201cMoving Mountains, Colorado\u2019s First Interstate Tunnels\u201d, and \u201cDenver Union Station, Portal to Progress.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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