In the late 1950s, residents living along the Piedra and San Juan Rivers learned that their communities would be condemned and indundated by reservoir water. By the early 1960s, a federal water reclamation project known as Navajo Dam started flooding these river valleys in in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico.

This episode tells the story of what happened to Raymond Gallegos' family when they were forced to relocate, and the lives they left behind.

Reporting, production, musical scoring, hosted by Adam Burke.

Image, courtesy of Raymond Gallegos: Gallegos siblings Lydia, Alfonso, Raymond, and Robert at the family homestead in 1955.

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Music:

Western Guard Towers, Daniel Diaz

We Crossed Paths, Ben McElroy

The Shadow Collector, Night Drift

Take Time, Danijel Zambo

Sun In The Heart, Danijel Zambo

Blossom, Danijel Zambo

An Empty Bus, Justin Marshall Elias