1370. Roberts Tunnel. 1960. Surge chamber. Source: Gordon Evig

1439. Roberts Tunnel. 1960. Overlooking highway 285 from the east portal. The west portal lies at the base of Dillon Reservoir and the east portal is 1 mile upstream from Grant. The tunnel was completed in 1962 after 16 years of construction. It was named after Harold D. Roberts, attorney and special counsel for the Denver Water Board. It conveys water stored in Dillon Reservoir under the Continental Divide into the North Fork of the South Platte River. Source: Gordon Evig

1440. Roberts Tunnel. 1960. Shaft. Source: Gordon Evig

1441. Roberts Tunnel. 1960. Road to the surge chamber. Source: Gordon Evig

1442. Roberts Tunnel. 1960. Road to the surge chamber. Source: Gordon Evig

1443. Roberts Tunnel. 1960. From road to the surge chamber. Source: Gordon Evig

1444. Roberts Tunnel. 1960. Road to the surge chamber. Source: Gordon Evig

1445. Roberts Tunnel. 1960. Surge chamber. Source: Gordon Evig

1446. Roberts Tunnel. 1960. Surge chamber construction. Source: Gordon Evig

1447. Roberts Tunnel. 1960. Surge chamber. Source: Gordon Evig

1448. Roberts Tunnel. 1960. Surge chamber highway 285.. Source: Gordon Evig

1449. Roberts Tunnel. 1960. Source: Gordon Evig

1450. Roberts Tunnel. 1960. Surge chamber during construction. Source: Gordon Evig

1451. Roberts Tunnel. 1960. Shaft. Source: Gordon Evig

1452. Roberts Tunnel. 1960. Retaining fence. Source: Gordon Evig

1453. Roberts Tunnel. 1960. Looking up at retaining fence. Source: Gordon Evig

1484. Roberts Tunnel. 1960. Surge chamber. Source: Gordon Evig

1485. Roberts Tunnel. 1960. Surge chamber. Source: Gordon Evig

1486. Roberts Tunnel. 1960. Surge chamber. Source: Gordon Evig

1487. Roberts Tunnel. 1960. Surge chamber. Source: Gordon Evig

1488. Roberts Tunnel. 1960. Area near tunnel. Source: Gordon Evig

1489. Roberts Tunnel. 1960. Area near tunnel. Source: Gordon Evig

1490. Roberts Tunnel. 1960. Road above tunnel. Source: Gordon Evig

1872. Roberts Tunnel. Late 1940s. Jack Fitzgerald (foreman) and Kenn Hicks on electric machine that pulled tram in and out of tunnel.. Source: Kenn Hicks

1873. Roberts Tunnel. Kenn Hicks in room where men changed their clothes. Source: Kenn Hicks

1874. Roberts Tunnel. March 29, 1955. Kenn Hicks operating mucking machine. Source: Kenn Hicks

1875. Roberts Tunnel. Kenn Hicks on jumbo drilling machine. Source: Kenn Hicks

1876. Roberts Tunnel. Circa late 1940s or early 1950s. Left to right: Kenn Hicks, Jack Miller, Bob Taggert, Paul Branson, Clifford Lamping (sitting) and Dale Clausan. Source: Kenn Hicks

1877. Roberts Tunnel. Circa late 1940s or early 1950s. Mine car, water tank. Source: Kenn Hicks

1878. Roberts Tunnel. Circa late 1940s or early 1950s. Outside tunnel. Front row left to right: Grant Akin (water board member), Dwight Allard (sitting), William Morris, Kenn Hicks. 2nd row left to right: Tommy Canolin, Jack Fitzgerald, Frank Bose, Merle Sowell (sitting). Source: Kenn Hicks

1879. Roberts Tunnel. Circa late 1940s or early 1950s. Tommy Canolin, Frank Bose and ? Rasmussen outside by compressor and compressor house. Source: Kenn Hicks

1880. Roberts Tunnel. Circa late 1940s or early 1950s. Tunnel beginning is on left. At right is area where workers parked and changed clothes to work in tunnel. Source: Kenn Hicks

1881. Roberts Tunnel. Circa late 1940s or early 1950s. Trestle across highway on which cars moved muck for deposit. Source: Kenn Hicks

1882. Roberts Tunnel. Circa late 1940s or early 1950s. Construction of trestle. Source: Kenn Hicks

1883. Roberts Tunnel. Circa late 1940s or early 1950s. Construction of trestle. Source: Kenn Hicks

1884. Roberts Tunnel. Circa late 1940s or early 1950s. Construction of trestle. Source: Kenn Hicks

1885. Roberts Tunnel. Circa late 1940s or early 1950s. Trestle. Source: Kenn Hicks

1886. Roberts Tunnel. Circa late 1940s or early 1950s. Trestle. Source: Kenn Hicks

1889. Roberts Tunnel. 1956. Drill jumbo. Tom Morse, Clyde Johnson, Bill Marrs, Vince Mcquin, Shorty Hernandez, Lloyd Tow, Roy Taber, Shorty Rogers. Source: Clyde M. Johnson Sr.

1890. Roberts Tunnel 1956. Muck pile. Source: Clyde M. Johnson Sr.

1891. Roberts Tunnel. Start of tunnel. Source: Clyde M. Johnson Sr.

1892. Roberts Tunnel. 1956. Source: Clyde M. Johnson Sr.

1893. Roberts Tunnel. November 3, 1956. Trestle, looking down from water tank toward parking lot. Source: Clyde M. Johnson Sr.

1894. Roberts Tunnel. 1956. Bill Radar. Source: Clyde M. Johnson Sr.

1895. Roberts Tunnel. 1956. Source: Clyde M. Johnson Sr.

1896. Roberts Tunnel. December 5, 1957. Laying 6 foot section of track before drilling. Source: Clyde M. Johnson Sr.

1897. Roberts Tunnel. December 4, 1956. Resetting steel. Source: Clyde M. Johnson Sr.

1898. Roberts Tunnel. January 1, 1957. Resetting steel. Notice logs that water board put in. Clyde Johnson, Horace Hernandez, Clyde Howe and Bill Marrs. Source: Clyde M. Johnson Sr.

1899. Roberts Tunnel. April 15, 1957. Laying 6 foot section of railroad. Source: Clyde M. Johnson Sr.

1900. Roberts Tunnel. July 30, 1959. Where they hit water with the heading pipes. Source: Clyde M. Johnson Sr.

1901. Roberts Tunnel. July 30, 1959. Where they hit water with the heading pipes. Source: Clyde M. Johnson Sr.

1902. Roberts Tunnel. January 11, 1960. Water coming out of the portal. Source: Clyde M. Johnson Sr.

1903. Roberts Tunnel. April 11, 1960. Dry belt is transferring concrete over the highway to the batch plant. Source: Clyde M. Johnson Sr.

1904. Roberts Tunnel. Batch plant and trestle. Source: Clyde M. Johnson Sr.

1905. Roberts Tunnel. June 30, 1958. Looking down at outside of tunnel from top of surge chamber. Source: Clyde M. Johnson Sr.

1906. Roberts Tunnel. 1962. 40 foot sections, most are 400 feet long. Source: Clyde M. Johnson Sr.

1907. Roberts Tunnel. November 1962. Clyde Johnson. Source: Clyde M. Johnson Sr.

1911. Roberts Tunnel. February 20, 1957. Drilling. Bill Marrs, Vince McCune, Clyde Johnson, Marshall Sherman, Jack Fitzgerald. Source: Clyde M. Johnson Sr.

1912. Roberts Tunnel. July 1959. Leonard Stolz, Ernie Godin, Lloyd Tow, Max Roach, Cliff Thorne, Floyd Taggert. Source: Clyde M. Johnson Sr.

1913. Roberts Tunnel. November 14, 1958. Placing 8 struts in ground. Max Roach, Dick Hosp, Lloyd Tow. Source: Clyde M. Johnson Sr.

2792. Roberts Tunnel. 1950. Source: Joseph & Emma Major, Oscar & Edith Sandholm