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<br />, <-., <br /> <br />\' <br /> <br />A system of ground-water wells in the southeast corner of Arizona <br />will provide ~ to 160,000 acre-feet of pumped water annually to irrig$.tors <br />r--.:> in the United states and Mexico. <br />o <br />r..o The system will include the Yuma. Mesa Well Field on the southern end <br />N of the Yuma. Mesa. with 25 wells and 15.3 miles of water conveyance condllit <br />and the Yuma. Valley Boundary Well Field with 10 wells and 5.3 miles ofcondllit.l <br /> <br />'The combined well fields will be used to pump not over 1.60,000 ac:re-t'eet <br />of ground .ter annually, of which about 125,000 acre-feet will be delivEll'ed <br />to. Mexico at the sOl1therly international boundary near San Luis, Arizona, <br />and San Luis, Sonora, Mexico, along with 15,000 acre-feet of existing ~l <br />wasteway f'lows. The remainder will go to U.S. water users in the proj~t area. <br /> <br />The pumped water delivered to Mexico will be part of that country's <br />entitlement of 1.5 lI\ill-lon acre-f'eet of' Colorado River water a year under <br />. the Mexican Water Treaty. Under provisions of' the Treaty, only those ',.ters <br />delivered to MeXico at the surtace are accounted f'or in Mexico's 1.5 ulllll.on <br />acre-f'oot entitl.-nt. . <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />"'- <br /> <br />t- <br /> <br />The Colorado River International Salinity Control Project draft <br />envlr01lll1entt.l statement was prepared by the 'Bureau of' Reclamation and . <br />the Of't'ice of' Saline Water, (now a part of' the Of'f'ice of' Water Research and <br />Technology), Department of' the Interior agencies, and the U.S. seetlonand. . <br />Mexico section of InterIl&tional Boundary 3nd Water COJlIIlIission. <br /> <br />}-, <br /> <br />### <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />3 <br />(more) <br /> <br />'. <br /> <br />> <br /> <br />-_ ,s ,:~_ ,,"""k.....~,,;:. ,..i.-,~,,_, <br /> <br />