Montgomery Reservoir

Montgomery Reservoir lies high in Colorado's Mosquito Range near Hoosier Pass a few miles north of Alma, Colorado. The reservoir sits at an altitude of 10873 ft. It is owned by Colorado Springs Utilities and delivers water to Colorado Springs, Colorado for municipal use. Built in 1957, the reservoir stores water from the Middle Fork South Platte River and from a tunnel that brings water from the Blue River on the west side of the continental divide.

Transbasin diversion
Most of the water entering the reservoir comes through the Hoosier Tunnel which collects water from the Blue River watershed on the west side of the continental divide and conveys it to the east side, an instance of a transbasin diversion. Because the reservoir lies near the top of the headwaters of the Middle Fork South Platte River, the watershed above the dam is rather small — only 7.7 sqmi in size, so its catchment basin is limited. Thus the chief source of the lake's water is the Hoosier Tunnel.

The reservoir is drained by the Blue River Pipeline, a 70 mi long pipeline that flows by gravity to the Colorado Springs Utilities-owned North and South Catamount reservoirs on the slopes of Pikes Peak. From there, the water is treated and delivered to municipal water customers in Colorado Springs.

Dam
Montgomery Dam is a rockfill structure. It is approximately 1900 ft long and 113 ft high. When it was built, the dam was sealed with an asphalt concrete facing.