The Colorado River: A Comprehensive Report on the Development of the Water Resources of the Colorado River Basin for Irrigation, Power Production, and Other Beneficial Uses in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming |
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... southern California 96 · Irrigation development , Colorado River Basin ( map ) . 106 X. Yields of major crops in upper basin ( 1939 ) . XI . Number of farms in the upper basin . XII . Sizes of farms in upper basin ( 1939 ) XIII . Farm ...
... southern California 96 · Irrigation development , Colorado River Basin ( map ) . 106 X. Yields of major crops in upper basin ( 1939 ) . XI . Number of farms in the upper basin . XII . Sizes of farms in upper basin ( 1939 ) XIII . Farm ...
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... southern California ( 1939 ) LVII . Reservoirs in San Juan division . XXVII . Wholesale and retail trade - Lower basin and southern California ( 1939 ) LVIII . Present irrigated areas in the San Juan divi- sion by States XXVIII ...
... southern California ( 1939 ) LVII . Reservoirs in San Juan division . XXVII . Wholesale and retail trade - Lower basin and southern California ( 1939 ) LVIII . Present irrigated areas in the San Juan divi- sion by States XXVIII ...
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... Southern California . 10. Enormous beds of bituminous and subbituminous coal within the basin in eastern Utah , southern Wyoming , and western Colorado are estimated to contain nearly one - fourth of all the coal reserves in the United ...
... Southern California . 10. Enormous beds of bituminous and subbituminous coal within the basin in eastern Utah , southern Wyoming , and western Colorado are estimated to contain nearly one - fourth of all the coal reserves in the United ...
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... Southern California . A new recreational area that attracts more than half a million people a year has been created by the dam and Lake Mead in an area for- merly forbidding and unvisited . The lake is stocked with fish and has become ...
... Southern California . A new recreational area that attracts more than half a million people a year has been created by the dam and Lake Mead in an area for- merly forbidding and unvisited . The lake is stocked with fish and has become ...
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... Southern Pacific Railroad Co. before it was turned back into its channel in 1907. With desiltation of the river at Lake Mead , the channel downstream is undergoing a change in adjust- ing to the new regime . For the first 88 miles below ...
... Southern Pacific Railroad Co. before it was turned back into its channel in 1907. With desiltation of the river at Lake Mead , the channel downstream is undergoing a change in adjust- ing to the new regime . For the first 88 miles below ...
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Page 13 - The States of the upper division will not cause the flow of the river at Lee Ferry to be depleted below an aggregate of 75,000,000 acre-feet for any period of 10 consecutive years reckoned in continuing progressive series beginning with the first day of October next succeeding the ratification of this compact.
Page 66 - If, as a matter of international comity, the United States of America shall hereafter recognize in the United States of Mexico any right to the use of any waters of the Colorado River System, such waters shall be supplied first from...
Page 25 - ... irrigation works for the storage, diversion, and development of waters, including artesian wells, and to report to Congress at the beginning of each regular session as to the results of such examinations and surveys, giving estimates of cost of all contemplated works, the quantity and location of the lands which can be irrigated therefrom, and all facts relative to the practicability of each irrigation project; also the cost of works in process of construction as well as of those which have been...
Page 64 - ... in the Imperial or Coachella Valleys; also to construct and equip, operate, and maintain at or near said dam, or cause to be constructed, a complete plant and incidental structures suitable for the fullest economic development of electrical energy from the water discharged from said reservoir; and to acquire by proceedings in eminent domain, or otherwise, all lands, rights-of-way, and other property necessary for said purposes. (45 Stat. 1057.) The Boulder Canyon Project Act (sec. 2a) also set...
Page 64 - That for the purpose of controlling floods, improving navigation, regulating the flow of the streams of the United States, providing for storage and for the delivery of the stored waters thereof, for the reclamation of public lands * * * and other beneficial uses, and for the generation of electric energy as a means of financially aiding and assisting such undertakings, the projects known as Parker Dam...
Page 60 - This compact shall become binding and obligatory when it shall have been approved by the Legislatures of each of the signatory States and by the Congress of the United States.
Page 63 - ... and if such surplus shall prove insufficient for this purpose, then the burden of such deficiency shall be equally borne by the Upper Basin and the Lower Basin, and whenever necessary the States of the Upper Division shall deliver at Lee Ferry water to supply onehalf of the deficiency so recognized in addition to that provided in paragraph (d).
Page 25 - reclamation fund," to be used in the examination and survey for and the construction and maintenance of irrigation works for the storage, diversion, and development of waters for the reclamation of arid and semiarid lands...
Page 67 - In the event of extraordinary drought or serious accident to the irrigation system in the United States, thereby making it difficult for the United States to deliver the guaranteed quantity of 1,500,000 acre-feet...
Page 64 - ... the Secretary of the Interior, subject to the terms of the Colorado River Compact hereinafter mentioned, is hereby authorized to construct, operate, and maintain a dam and incidental works in the main stream of the Colorado River at Black Canyon or Boulder Canyon adequate to create a storage reservoir of a capacity of not less than 20 million acre-feet of water and a main canal and appurtenant structures...