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The '''Imperial Dam''' is a dam near [[Yuma, Arizona]] (USA), built in the [[1930s]]. It diverted [[Colorado River (U.S.)|Colorado River]] water into three different canals and held the river water until it could be directed into a desilting plant before being released into the [[All-American Canal]], the [[Gila River]], and the Yuma project aqueduct. Because it was built between 1932 and 1940, The Imperial Irrigation District (IID) relied on water from two temporary canals: The Inter-California canal and the Imperial canal (Alamo river). |
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The [[dam]] was built with three sections; the gates of each section hold back the water to help divert the water towards the desilting plant. Three giant desilting basins and seventy-two 770 foot long scrapers hold and desilt the water; the removed silt is carried away by six sludge-pipes running under the Colorado River that dump the sediment into the California sluiceway, which returns the silt to the Colorado River. The water is now directed back towards one of the three sections which divert the water into one of the three channels. |
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The Gila River and the Yuma project aqueduct branch off towards [[Arizona]] while the All-American canal branches southwards for thirty-seven miles before reaching its headworks on the [[California]] border and bends west towards the [[Imperial Valley]]. |
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Though the All-American canal moves millions of gallons of water into Imperial Valley every year, thousands of it are lost do to seepage problems. IID and Mexican authorities are debating on whether or not to line the All-American canal with concrete. The Mexican authorities are opposed to the All-American canal lining project, as the leaking water allows [[Mexico|Mexican]] farmers to irrigate their crops with well-water. |
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==External links== |
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*[http://www.citlink.net/~davegun/idmlc.html Dams of the Lower Colorado River - Imperial Dam] |
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*[http://www.usbr.gov/dataweb/dams/ca10159.htm USBR - Imperial Dam] |
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Revision as of 15:34, 29 July 2005
My aardvark is a special creature loved only by me, my birth mommy, my biological daddy, and mommy's ex-daddy. The "Scruutenheimer Space Station and Coffee Bar" is what my aardvark shall call home after its completion by German Tech Corporations in the year 30250 AD, due to lack of technologies and expertise on board the space shuttle modules, and I'm not even talking about that Russian trash they call rockets; it is simply not good enough for my precious, lovable, aardvark. I love my aardvark, especially since it comes from Pluto, born to a festive family of giant worms and mysteriously teleported to Mars (or so my aardvark claims), upon which it was picked up by Microsoft, due to their new headquarters location. I feed my aardvark a special diet of select lettuces and hummus; the creature is strictly vegetarian. However, due to a lack of proteins, my aardvark’s feces gives the impression that it eats an entire box of ExLAx ® daily. My aardvark’s hobbies include frolicking through my many acres of swamp, chasing poison dart frogs, and was previously known to, umm, “mount” squirrels and snakes from behind, thus leading to me removing his testicles, personally. At bed time, I give my aardvark a throughout scrubbing and kiss goodnight as he goes to sleep on his bead of whicker, straw, and John Morgan’s pants; I’ll never forget the day he crawled up that leg, but that’s another story!