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 1
EXISTING DAMS AND LAKES - LOWER BASIN
Special Studies - Delivery of Water to Mexico

Dam

Storage
Capacity
Lake Acre-Feet

Remarks

Hoover

Lake Mead 29,827,000 !I

To top of spillway gates in
raised position, elevation
1221,4 feet, Includes dead
storage, 2,620,000 !I acre-feet.

To high vater elevation 647.0.
Includes dead storage, 8,530
acre-feet.

Davie

Lake Mohave 1,818,000

Parker

Havasu Lake 648,000 g/

To high vater elevation 450.0.
Includes dead storage, 28,600
acre-feet; inactive storage,
439,400 acre-feet,

Headgate
Rock

None

Indian Bureau structure. Irri-
gation diversion.

Palo Verde

Diversion for Palo Verde
Irrigation District.

None

Imperial

1,000 To elevation 181.0 (spillvay
crest) irrigation diversion.
Silting}has reduced storage
capac~t;y from original 85,000 to:
about'l,OOO acre-feet. Diversion
for All-American and Gila Gravit1
__ _ _ _ Main_ Canals,_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _. ___ _-' ~

Laguna JJ

None

Obsolete, irrigation diversion.
Forms a downstream control for
Imperial Dam.

Morelos

None

Irrigation diversion to lands
in Mexico.

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From tables put into use October 1, 1949, based on the Lake Mead
Sedimentation Survey made in 1948-1949 by the Bureau of Reclamation
and Geological Survey of the Department of the Interior, and the
Navy Department,

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Revised capacity of Havasu Lake based on resurvey of the top 20 feet
of reservoir in April 1957. 180,000 acre-feet active space above
elevation 440.

JJ

No irrigation diversions from Laguna Dam after December 16, 1954,

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