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Show 108 PROBLEMS OF IMPERIAL VALLEY AND VICINITY. NEW FORK RIVER AND TRIBUTARIES. The following projects have been constructed but are only partially irrigated now: Name. Stream. Acres irrigated, 1920. Total irrigable. Boulder Boulder Creek ..................... 5,400 8,600 Fremont Lake Pine Creek............. 1,000 7,000 East Fork.. ................ East Fork River...................... 1,000 4,900 Paradise1.............................. New Fork River........,............. 4,100 Total............................. 7,400 24,600 1 To be completed 1921. Water supply is ample for these. EDEN PROJECT. Carey Act lists 35 and 37 secured in 1906 and 1907. Permits ¦cover 70,200 acres, of which 60,000 are estimated irrigable and of which 7,000 were irrigated in 1920: Irrigation plan.-Diversion from Big Sandy Creek in sections 17 and 27 north, range 106 west to east side of river. This is constructed. Diversion in section 3, township 26 north, range 106 west to west side of river, not constructed. Irrigable acreage, east side................................................. 40,000 Irrigable acreage, west side................................................ 20,000 East side canal feeds Eden Reservoir of 18,300 acre-foot capacity now built and also picks up the waters of Little Sandy Creek. Additional storage of 105,000 acre-feet is contemplated in Eden Reservoir No. 2 at the headwaters. Water supply.-Big Sandy Creek was gaged only in 1915-16 and little Sandy Creek only in 1911 and 1912, both for only a part of the year. Based on this meager data, the run-off above the diversion is ¦estimated to average as follows: Big Sandy. Little Sandy. Total. November to March, inclusive October and April............ May.......................... June.......................... July........................... August........................ Usable................... Acre-feet. 19,000 14,000 12,000 31,000 13,000 4,000 Acre-feet. !2,000 13,000 2,000 7,000 4,000 1,000 Acre-feet. 14,000 14,000 38,000 17,000 5,000 74,000 14,000 88,000 1 Lost because undivertible. |
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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] : |