WSP01908

• File Number: 8278.300
• Description: Title I - Merxican Deliveries
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 2/1/1963
• Author: USDOI/BOR
• Title: Special Studies - Delivery of Water to Mexico
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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TABLE OF CONTENTS (Continued)
LIST OF TABLES

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Existing Dams and Lakes - Lower Basin. . . . .

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Yuma Valley Drainage Water Delivered to Mexico
Through Boundary Pumping Plant at San Luis,
Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Colorado River Flow Near Grand Canyon, Part A.
Colorado River Flow Near Grand Canyon, Part B.

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Scheduled and Actual Water Deliveries to Mexico.

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Mexico's Order Under Treaty. . . . . . . .

Quality of Colorado River Water Near Grand
Canyon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Historical Quality of Water at Imperial Dam.

Water Balance - Wellton-Mohawk District, .

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Wellton-Mohawk Project Diversions Crop Use
and Drainage Pumping . . . . . . . . .. .... . . . . . 50

Wellton-Mohawk Drainage Wells - Decrease in
Total Dissolved Solids . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Estimated Rate of Aquifer Refreshing by Pumping.

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Characterization of Principal Soils - Mexicali
Valley - Lacustrine Group. . . . . . . . . . .

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Characterization of Principal SOils - Mexicali
Valley - Deltaic Plain Soils . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Characterization of Principal Soils - Mexicali
Valley - Recent Alluvial Soils . . 71

Projected Water Quality - Phase 1, . . . . 88

Water Balance - Well ton-Mohawk District -
Phase 2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Estimated Average Discharge and Salinity 94

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