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Show 51 run along the east side of the Colorado River to the Mexican Border.86 Approximately 50,000 acres are served. Water from the Colorado River is diverted for this project at the west end of Imperial Dam through the All-American Canal. Before Imperial Dam was built, diversions had been made at Laguna Dam. Fifteen miles from Imperial the water is turned through Siphon Drop and passes under the Colorado River. On the east side of the River it is turned into the Yuma Project's main canal. This canal is divided into two channels, one running on the east side and the other on the west side of the Project, to the international border. Since 1951 the Yuma County Water Users' Association has been responsible for water deliveries to the Project lands.87 (b) Gila Project. The common works for the three units of this project are: Imperial Dam, the desilting basin at the east end of the dam and the Gila Gravity Canal, which takes out from the east end88 and which was constructed between 1936 and 1938.89 The canal, which has a capacity of 2,200 c.f.s.,00 runs generally in a southerly direction from Imperial Dam, crosses the Gila River by siphon, and divides into branches, one running south to Yuraa-Mesa and then on to Unit B Irrigation District, and one running east along the Gila River to Well ton-Mohawk.91 The three units of the Project are: (i) North Gila Valley Irrigation District. This project, the lands of which lie along the east side of the Colorado River just north of its confluence with the Gila River, is 86See Ariz. Ex. 110A. 87Tr. 2198-2199 (Steeubergen) ; Ariz. Ex. 1000, p. 22; Calif. Ex. 214. 8STr. 2199-2200 (Steenbergen). 89Tr. 2327 (Steenbergen). B0Tr. 2283 (Steenbergen). 91See Ariz. Ex. 108. |
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Original Report: State of Arizona, complainant v. State of California, Palo Verde Irrigation District, Imperial 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 |