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Show 104 PROBLEMS OF IMPERIAL VALLEY AND VICINITY. GENERAL DATA. Irrigation development. Above Green River city. Blacks Fork............. Hams Fork.............. Henrys Fork............ Present.1 Acres. 250,000 79,000 14,000 14,000 Total............................................................. 357,000 Estimated additional possible. Acres. 420,000 51,000 50,000 12,000 533,000 Total ultimate. Acret. 670,000 130,000 64,000 26,000 890,000 State engineer reports. Stream discharge, Green River. At Bridgeport, Utah___ Green River, Wyoming. Present annual discharge out of basin.1 A cre-feeL 1,920,000 1,380,000 Estimated decrease. Acre-feet. 800,000 630,000 Ultimate after full irrigation development. A cre-feet. 1,120,000 750,000 1 After allowing for depletion through increased irrigation during period of record. FUTURE IRRIGATION POSSIBILITIES. Rather extensive systems can be built covering large acreages, much more than there is water for. These have been outlined by surveys both by private enterprise under the Carey Act, by the Wyoming cooperative report between the State of Wyoming and the Federal Government, and by a reconnaissance made by Garfield Stubblefield in 1918.1 Lack of reservoirs will prohibit development to use the entire run-off of the basin, even if land were sufficient. In the following list of projects the acreage only is given for which the water supply at point of diversion is estimated to be sufficient in most years. While most strategic points on every stream have records started in the past few years, yet no winter records can be kept, the period of record is not long, and estimates must be made by comparison with Green River, Wyo., station, which is at a lower altitude than the source of supply. It has been necessary also in some cases to estimate by comparison of drainage areas. Possible future projects in Green River Basin, Wyoming. Above Green River town: Acres. Fontanelle........................................................ 4,000 La Barge (Carey Act list 93)........................................ 3,000 Apex............................................................. 4,000 Green River (Carey Act list 49)...................................... 94,000 Uihta-Fremont (Carey Act list 88).................................... 11,000 Seedskadee...............................'......................... 2 146,000 Big Piney-La Barge............................................... 6,000 Individual efforts.................................................. 60,000 Total............................................................ 328,000 Hams Fork: Opal project............................................... 50, 000 ] Unpublished " Report on Green River Basin In Wyoming, U. S. R. S., March, 1919. • Considerable doubt as to whether so much irrigable acreage is found in project; see later discussion. |
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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] : |