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<br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />> . <br />N <br />~ <br />t~ <br /> <br />DESCRIPTION OF BASIN <br /> <br />Colorado River Aqueduct. Havasu Lake will also serve as forebay for the <br />Central Arizona Project pumping plants and aqueducts. Lake Havasu and <br />Alamo Dam and Reservoir are used to control floods originating below <br />Davis Dam and above Parker Dam. <br /> <br />Headgate Rock Dam, Palo Verde Diversion Dam, and Imperial Dam all <br />serve as diversion structures with practically no storage. Imperial <br />Dam. located some 150 miles downstream from Parker Dam, is the major <br />diversion structure to irrigation projects in the Imperial Valley and <br />Yuma areas. It diverts water on the right bank to the All-American <br />Canal which delivers water to the Yuma Project in Arizona and California <br />and Imperial and Coachella Valleys in California. It diverts on the <br />left bank to the Gila Gravity Main Canal. <br /> <br />The Senator Wash Dam also affords regulation in the vicinity of <br />Imperial Dam and assists in the delivery of water to Mexico. This dam <br />and reservoir is used for pump back storage, po~er generation, and <br />recreation. <br /> <br />9 <br />