WSP07932

• File Number: 8210.140.20
• Description: Colorado River Basin Organizations and Entities - Colorado River Basin States Forum - California
• State: CA
• Basin: Western Slope
• Date: 2/1/1922
• Author: A P Davis
• Title: Report On Problems Of Imperial Valley And Vicinity
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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Imperial Valley E::<t~nsion
Irrige.blo area - ?cres.

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Imperial Valley:Privcte:Entcred: Pub 11 c IndHm: Shtc So.P. R.R.:
Extension Calif. :
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E?st Sid\> Mesa 1,200: 1,200: 148,100: 8,300: 1,200
Dos P3.1mos 200: 1,400: 700: ' 300: 2,400
Coachell3. Val. 12,100: 3,400: 3,800: 11,400: 4,400: 36,900 :
West Sido 10,000: 9,300: 14,300: 100: 1.600: 6,700
U.S.hnds 14,500: 15,300: 166,900: 11,500: 14,600: 47 , 200
Mexic3n l-'.nds:

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160,000
5,000
72,000
33.000
2'70,000
30,000

Flood protection 3.nd irrig~tion storage benefits.

The distribution of benefits from ~ter storage is perh?~s

the most co~licated and difficult to determine, and involves

questions of l~w which it is neither possible nor d\>sir3.ble to

determine at the pr3s3nt time.

The Yuma projoct of the Unit~d States Recl~tion Service

cl3.ims ~ early valid right to tho divorsion of w,t~r, b~sed

upon 3.n ~ct of Congress (33 Stat., 224) authorizin5 tho divcr-

sion of water for the Yuma project and including Indian lands.

The Imperial Irrigation District, on bohalf of the lands \rtthin

its boundaries, claims a right based upon filings under Califor-

nia laws. Similar claims are 3.sserted by the Palo Verde

Irrig3.tion District and some othcr tracts in the Colorado Valloy,

and which of the$e is to get preforence is a matter of dispute

dep(mding perhans in part upon various questions of fact which

\vill require c3.r\>ful determination. The cl3im is asserted on

beh-~lf of the Indians of the Color~o River Indian Reservation

to sufficient water for their 13nds, irrespectivo of prior

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