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Water Supply Protection
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
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<br />have been in use for some years at a point a few miles <br />below the upper end of the Saiz Levee, and show about <br />the same drawdown. Another large well was drilled near <br />the head of Pescadero Cut and gave fine results on test, <br />but has never been put'to continuous use. The extent of <br />the underground bash!. ha.s never been determined, but it <br />is believed it covers as much as 200,000 acres and it is <br />not improbable that it could produce, by proper develop- <br />ment, a considerable quantity of water for several years <br />at a time, during occasional periods of low flow in the <br />River. <br /> <br />This is a resource which, it is believed, should be <br />thoroughly explored and studied. It is available to <br />Mexico, and should be considered as a part of the supply <br />for irrigation use in Mexico. Many areas in the United <br />States now and in the future will have to depend upon <br />utilizing similar lmderground sources to supplement sur- <br />face flow. R:;;:a.mplcs are, the Coachella Valley in <br />California, which will havo to supplement the water it <br />receives from the All-Arnerican Canal by pumping from its <br />underlying basin and the Salt River Valley in Arizona, <br />where the use of underground water in large amounts has <br />been necessary to preserve development of the Valley.. <br />other examples are tho lower Gila Valley in Arizona and <br />Owens Valley in California. In view of these conditions, <br /> <br />- 22 - <br />
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