Boulder Canyon ProjectUnited States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, 1948 - Arch dams |
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acre-feet acres of land All-American Canal Angeles annual aqueduct Arizona Arizona side began Black Canyon Boulder Canyon Project Boulder City built Bureau of Reclamation cableway California Development California Development Company Canyon Project Act canyon walls capacity channel Coachella Valley cofferdam Colorado River Basin Colorado River water compact completed concrete Congress construction contract cost cubic yards desert designed diversion tunnels downstream engineering estimated expedition feet flow gates Gila Gulf of California Hoover Dam Imperial Valley inches installed intake towers investigations Irrigation District Laguna Dam levees located lower basin Mead Metropolitan Water District Mexican Mexico miles navigation Nevada side operation outlet Palo Verde Valley Parker Dam penstock pipes power plant problem proposed Reclamation Service region Report reservoir river control rock Rockwood Salton Sea Santa second-feet sections Southern California Southwest spillway steel storage stream structure survey tributaries turbines United upper upstream Utah Volcano Lake water supply Yuma project
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Page 56 - Before any money is appropriated for the construction of said dam or power plant, or any construction work done or contracted for, the Secretary of the Interior shall make provision for revenues by contract, in accordance with the provisions of this act, adequate in his judgment to insure payment of all expenses of operation and maintenance...
Page 50 - If, as a matter of international comity, the United States of America shall hereafter recognize in the United States of Mexico any right to the use of any waters of the Colorado River System...
Page 63 - Palo Verde Irrigation District; Imperial Irrigation District; Coachella Valley County Water District; the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California; San Diego County Water Authority; and the City of Los Angeles, Department of Water and Power.
Page 135 - States to deliver the guaranteed quantity of 1,500,000 acre-feet (1,850,234,000 cubic meters) a year, the water allotted to Mexico under subparagraph (a) of this Article will be reduced in the same proportion as consumptive uses in the United States are reduced.
Page 16 - The region last explored is, of course, altogether valueless. It can be approached only from the south, and after entering it there is nothing to do but to leave. Ours has been the first, and will doubtless be the last, party of whites to visit this profitless locality. It seems intended by nature that the Colorado river, along the greater portion of its lonely and majestic way, shall be forever unvisited and undisturbed.
Page 54 - River compact hereinafter mentioned, is hereby authorized to construct, operate, and maintain a dam and incidental works in the main stream of the Colorado River at Black Canyon or Boulder Canyon adequate to create a storage reservoir of a capacity of not less than twenty million acre-feet of water and a main canal and appurtenant structures located entirely within the United States...
Page 1 - The States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa, have enacted laws which either nullify the Acts of Congress or render useless any attempt to execute them.
Page 54 - Valleys; also to construct and equip, operate, and maintain at or near said dam, or cause to be constructed, a complete plant and incidental structures suitable for the fullest economic development of electrical energy from the water discharged from said reservoir...
Page 54 - That for the purpose of controlling the floods, improving navigation and regulating the flow of the Colorado River, providing for storage and for the delivery of the stored waters thereof, for reclamation of public lands and other beneficial uses exclusively within the United States, and for the generation of electrical energy as a means of making the project herein authorized a self-supporting and financially solvent undertaking...
Page 56 - California, or any construction work is done upon said canal or contracted for, the Secretary of the Interior shall make provision for revenues, by contract or otherwise, adequate in his judgment to insure payment of all expenses of construction, operation, and maintenance of said main canal and appurtenant structures in the manner provided in the reclamation law.