WSP00494

• File Number: 8278.400
• Description: Title I - Mexican Treaty
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 1/1/1976
• Author: IBWC, US and Mexico
• Title: Flow of the Colorado River and Other Western Boundary Streams and Related Data
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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DRAIN NO. 8-B (ARAZ DRAIN)

DESCRlPl'lON; This d:rain.:Uscrnr6p." lnW the Colo;r&<1D River ~.O .ules ({4 k",j d.O'olnstre[)JII J'!"O[]JColol""d.o Il1vH
t.elow Y= Helin C>iI"llol \I,,"t~""':;. on.l 2.5 ",llp..~ (4.0 !1m) u>utreom 1'1"001 t.he nort.herly Intern~tlona.l bLlundary.
nior lJ:l O.:lOber 195~. publisro.d ~s "Al'"B~ DI"bin".
REX:OP.I6: Re.:or.1,;~"'" fum.ishea t., u. S. Geoloo;l~~l Suney fro!!l ~urrent meler measurement" d'Jrlng t.he :;eor.
Re~ord5 ",""ll"t.le; It:l.) 1943 through 1976.
REM'll'It:.s; Dnln 8-B, "'hlch w"s cor.slroc led in F.,.bruar/ 1148. c.:ollect~ see[lll>'" "'v teI" 1n lhe we<;tp.r1y section of
the Re<;ervotlon Dirl.lono! the Ywna P:mJe':l vhlch lies 1n Colif"rnl.... flow 1n th.,. drain b.,.tween
the laOuth bad the U. S H16llwn:; tlo. 80 culv""n, sbout ),200 feet (015 m) up'tre""', b offe~t.,.rt by t.ack.mteI"
fro",t.he rlv.,.rdur:1naorJ1i'llilj' h1l1h,;t......s.
EXTREMES; Mea" dail.' .U",h"r.,e: Ka;dmlml. 24 seconc\-fel!t. (0.65 m3/"1 on Septl!lIlber 1, 1';53; min1m\ll!l, 0.1 ,ec.:ond_
foot (0.00) !!I)jo) seveT'.,l dto.,s lr. Febru~"-i 1':)56.

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