WSP10018

• File Number: 8278.400
• Description: Title I - Mexican Treaty
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 7/27/1942
• Author: Com. Of 14, CRBS
• Title: Memoranda In Explanation and Support of Resolution Adopted by the Committee on June 20, 1942, Relating to an Apportionment of the Waters of the Colorado River to Mexico
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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However, as the deposition of silt raised the Volcano

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Lake area, with a consequent increase in River elevation

above that point, the danger to the land to the west made

it necessary to divert the River without waiting for it to

do so itself. In 1921-22, the Bee River Levee, Pescadero

Dam and Pesc~dero Cut were completed and the River was

turned southward out of Volcano Lake. Attempts were then

luade to cultivate land in Volcano Lake, requiring the con-

struction of the Rodriquez Levee starting near the end of
the Pescadero Levee.

In 1929, American int8rests attempted to develop the

land lying to the east or Pescadero Cut in Mexico. For

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this purpose they constructed a levee along the south side

of the Bee Hi-vcr, Imown as the San Luis Levee, together

with a canal, called the Vacanora Canal, diverting from

Bee River near Pescadero Dron, thence rtuming to the south

for a uQmber of ~iles. This was a further attempt to

strait-jacket the River. Although it was on not as large

a scale as in 1911, it was with the same resultsj the

first flood broke throu.gh the San Luis Levee at a number
of points and into Vacanora Canal. By the end of the

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1929 flood season, the entire flow of the River was pass-

ing dovm tho new canal and it is still the main channel

of the River. Although this made the proposed develop-

ment impossible, it did relieve for a time conditions

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