Old Dillon Reservoir is going away fast
If you’ve never taken the short hike up to the Old Dillon Reservoir, located off of the Dam Road, you may have missed out, because the town of Dillon is draining it. Within a day, the lake went down a foot.
But if you fish, it’s a great time to catch and keep the fish.
Dead pine trees add to an already compromised dam; if the trees fall (thus uprooting), it will weaken the dam’s capacity to hold water. A break would flood Interstate 70 and companies in Silverthorne. The lake spans 10 acres.
Drained water will go back into the Salt Lick Creek, and the process will occur over the next month.
Like the closing of the Dam Road in early July, the news came abruptly and required “immediate action,†after a regularly scheduled inspection.
But the reservoir won’t be gone for long — next year, they’ll start building a new dam to hold water again, and they’ll restock it with fish.
