by Virginia McConnell Simmons Although few places in Colorado have finer scenery than the conjoined Twin Lakes, the fortunes of this hamlet have ebbed and flowed, just as the water levels of the lakes has. Originally, these natural glacial lakes consisted of conjoined bodies of water, one about two and one-half miles in length by one and one-half in width and the other half that size. Today the acreage of the lower lake is changed, due to a 135-foot-high dam, with seasonal water levels increasing and decreasing and with daily injections from a forebay above and a power plant below ...