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Show SPECIAL REPORTS 2-C-4O Vol. 35 diversion thia wator in sufficient only to irrigate the 67 acres which have boon cultivated for some .years. With more permanent and satistfactory diversion facilities, which it is believed can bo installed at a reasonable costt it is probable the entire irrigable area of 83 acres oan to brought under cultivation." Quoting further from ray report of 1984i "The diversion dam and heatgate of the Santa Clara Bench Irrigation Company ia a short distance upstiream from tho heading of tho upper Indian canal and tho Santa Clara Canal for some distance follows the river along the side of tho canyon* It io bolieved advisable to extend tho upper Indian ditch upstrean to this diversion dam, or to take tho water through tho Santa Clara Canal, crossing tho river channel by means of a siphon or pipe lino. Our examination of tho othor Indian diversions indicates that it may bo possible to eliminate practically all of these by diverting the water for then through tho Santa Clara Canal. An estimate covering the cost of this work has boon included in tho advance estimation for fiscal yoar 1926 » As stated in our annual report for fiscal yoar 1924, it was feasible, an conditions existed in 1924 and for some years thereafter, to extend tho upper Indian ditoh upstream to the Santa Clara diversion dam, and it was then believed advisable either to do that "or to take tho water through the Saotn Clara Canal, orosaing tho river channel by neons of n aiphon or pipe lino." Tho Santa Clara Canal Company diversion dajn, while somewhat crude in design and worlananship, was in 1984, and for sometime thereafter, in fairly good condition oxoopt for a section about 0 feat wide near the center Of tho dam, which had broken off on each aide alonfi faulty construction JointB, and had fallen or settled about 18 inches, plainly as tho ronult of the removal of tho supporting boulders, gravel and sand boneath the dam, by water pausing undor the dan at that point. Both abutments and the remainder of tho dan v/ero then intaot and in fairly good condition, and the entire atruoture undoubtedly could have boon saved and plaood in satisfactory condition by replacing the damaged sootIon and extending or lowering tho cut-off v/alls on tho uoBtream side of the atructuro. It was the expressed intontlon of tho company |
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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. |