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Show PROBLEMS OF IMPERIAL VALLEY AND VICINITY. 119 White River Basin projects: Acres. Yellow Jacket................................................ 12,000 Wolf Creek.................................................. 2,000 Individual efforts........................................... 16, 000. ----------- 30,000 Total............................................................. 400,000 The last item in each basin, "Individual efforts," is an arbitrary assumption. There is a constant increase in irrigated land by building additional small ditches, but there is no way of arriving at the ultimate total of this. The estimate used here is furnished by State officials and is subject to modification upon completion of detailed studies now under way. Classification of projects. Class A. Wessels................................................i 12,000 Mad Creek...............................:.............j 5,000 Hayden Mesa Twenty Mile. Class B. Class C. Class X. Elk River, unit 1..... Elk River, unit 2..... Dolan Mesa........... Great Northern, No. 1. Yellow Jacket......... Summers............. Wolf Creek............ 75,000 40,000 10,000 72,000 7,000 23,000 65,000 Total. 2,000 20,000 166,000 100,000 65,000 69,000 DESCRIPTION OF PROJECTS. WESSELS PROJECT. Acreage, 12,000. Temperature, mean annual, 39°. Precipitation, mean annual, 22 inches; irrigation season, 6 inches. Elevation, 7,000 feet. Transportation, Denver & Salt Lake Railroad. Between frosts (summer), 65 days, average. Irrigation plan.-Diversion canal heads center of township 4 north, range 84 west, on Yampa River; thence 6 miles along the west side of river; thence west by means of a half-mile tunnel through a ridge to the first unit of 9,000 acres. Along this unit with half-mile siphon across Oak Creek and back to river at Steamboat Springs. Skirting river it reaches 3,000 acres formerly proposed in Mad Creek project. Storage.-At Upper Bear site on Yampa River capacity is 125,000 acre-feet, with 200-foot raise in water surface. Duty of water. Per acre. 12,000 acres. May . ............................................. Acre-feet. 0.25 Acre-feet. 3,000 June........................................................................ .70 .70 .35 8,400 8,4C0 4,200 July............................................................................ August.......................................................................... Total ......... ....................... 2.00 24,000 |
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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] : |