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<br />Table 1 <br />EXISTING DAMS AND LAKES - LOWER BASIN <br />Special Studies - Delivery of Water to Mexico <br /> <br />DB1Il <br /> <br />Storage <br />Capacity <br />Lake Acre-Feet <br /> <br />Hoover <br /> <br />Lake Mead 29,827,000 !I <br /> <br />Remarks <br /> <br />Davis <br /> <br />Lake Mohave 1,818,000 <br /> <br />Parker <br /> <br />Havasu Lake 648,000 g/ <br /> <br />Headgate <br />Rock <br /> <br />None <br /> <br />Palo Verde <br /> <br />None <br /> <br />Imperial <br /> <br />1,000 <br /> <br />Laguna }/ <br /> <br />None <br /> <br />Morelos <br /> <br />None <br /> <br />y <br /> <br />To top of spillway gates in <br />raised position, elevation <br />1221.4 feet. Includes dead <br />storage, 2,620,000 y acre-feet. <br /> <br />To high water elevation 647.0. <br />Includes dead storage, 8,530 <br />acre-feet. <br /> <br />To high water elevation 450.0. <br />Includes dead storage, 28,600 <br />acre-feet; inactive storage, <br />439,400 acre-feet. <br /> <br />Indian Bureau structure. Irri- <br />gation diversion. <br /> <br />Diversion for Palo Verde <br />Irrigation District. <br /> <br />To elevation 181.0 (spillway <br />crest) irrigation diversion. <br />Silting has reduced storage <br />capacity from original 85,000 to <br />about 1,000 acre-feet. Diversion <br />for All-American and Gila Gravity <br />Main Canals. <br /> <br />Obsolete, irrigation diversion. <br />Forms a downstream control for <br />Imperial Dam. <br /> <br />Irrigation diversion to lands <br />in Mexico. <br /> <br />From tables put into use October 1, 1949, based on the Lake Mead <br />Sedimentation Survey made in 1948-1949 by the Bureau of Reclamation <br />and Geological Survey of the Department of the Interior, and the <br />Navy Department. <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />t <br /> <br />Revised capacity of Havasu Lake based on resurvey of the top 20 feet <br />of reservoir in April 1957. 180,000 acre-feet active space above <br />elevation 440. <br /> <br />}/ <br /> <br />No irrigation diversions from Laguna Dam after December 16, 1954. <br /> <br />18 <br />