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Show -19- Summary. The measures that have been discussed may be summarized as follows: (a) The construction of a canal from the Laguna Dam to Handon Heading. Cost, about $7,000,000. This would insure a more certain water supply for the Imperial District Irrigation; it would end the need for the highly objectionable weir in the Colorado River, and remove the present hazard to the Yuma project, probably with a decreased operating expense to the Imperial District. It would not in itself decrease the flood danger to the Imperial District, nor its liability to water shortage consequent to the diversion of water for the irrigation of lands in Mexico. (b) An All American high line canal for the supply of the lands in the Imperial Irrigation District. Total cost, about $25,000,000. This would, besides yielding the advantages enumerated in paragraph (a), remove the liability to water shortage in the Imperial District caused by an increased diversion to Mexican lands, but would not decrease the flood danger to the Imperial District. (c) A system of storage reservoirs of sufficient capacity, only, to increase the low water flow. Cost, about $20,000,000. This would afford sufficient water for the irrigation of all practically irrigable lands, both in the United States and in Mexico, and would afford opportunity for a large power development, but would not, by itself, remedy the other conditions now existing. (d) An enlargement of the system of storage reservoirs sufficiently great to control the floods of the Colorado. Cost, about $15,000,000. |
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Original book: [State of Arizona, complainant v. State of California, Palo Verde Irrigation District, Coachella Valley County Water District, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, City of Los Angeles, California, City of San Diego, California, and County of San Diego, California, defendants, United States of America, State of Nevada, State of New Mexico, State of Utah, interveners] : California exhibits. |