DENVER — Construction workers made an unexpected discovery while working on the North Federal Boulevard Pedestrian Safety Project last January. They came across a wooden pipe, one they had never seen before.
“They pulled out the chunk, this 50-pound chunk of log, set it on the ground,” Megan Mueller said. “We were like, ‘Oh, that’s not… shouldn’t be here.”‘
Mueller is a Cultural Resources Specialist with HDR, Inc. She helped identify the object as a log wood pipe the Beaver Brook Water Co. installed in 1886. It was found along West 25th Avenue between Eliot Street and Federal Boulevard…