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Show -16- 9 feet from top of levee and will carry a depth of 6 feet of water. Width of levees and side slopes will be the same as above El Rio. Location From the adopted heading on the California bank of the river, about 10 miles above Yuma, the canal will swing directly away from the river, reaching in a distance of 1% miles, an old water channel at the foot of the highland bluffs, which, in general, it follows for a distance of 9 miles. Three miles below the intake, the canal is three miles away from the river and it keeps a mean distance of a little less than three miles from the river, from that point to El Rio, 13 miles below the Intake. At El Rio, the river runs against the California bluffs and from there to the International Boundary Line, a distance of 3 miles, the canal will approach as near the river bank as safety will permit. To avoid Pilot knob Mtn. the canal will have to cross the International Boundary Line and enter Lower California at the end of the 16th, mile. After crossing the Boundary, the canal swings to the West, directly away from the river, keeping in the alluvial bottom lands at the foot of the mesa bluffs, shown on map A. As shown on that map, the Central canal will run nearly parallel with the International Boundary for a distance of 37 miles, more or less, when it will swing to the North and reenter California. On this route, the length of canal in Lower California will be 42 miles, |
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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. |