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Palo Verde Dam
Palo Verde Dam
Palo Verde Dam Impounds Locale Colorado River Yuma County, Arizona; Riverside County, California 1850 ft 45 ft 1956 1958
Length Height Construction began Opening date Geographical Data Coordinates
33°43′57″N 114°30′39″W / 33.7325°N 114.5107°W / 33.7325; -114.5107Coordinates: 33°43′57″N 114°30′39″W / 33.7325°N 114.5107°W / 33.7325; -114.5107[1]
175,000 square yards (146,000 m2) of material. Construction of the dam, which began in 1956 and ended in 1958, was authorized by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. The dam was constructed to raise the water level of the river after upstream Hoover Dam was constructed and within two years, caused severe retrogression of the channel of the Colorado River.[2] The dam diverts about 1,800 cubic feet (51 m3) of water per second to irrigate 121,000 acres (490 km2) of valley and mesa lands on the west side of the Colorado River in California. The headworks of the diversion canal consists of four 12 feet (3.7 m) by 8 feet (2.4 m) pipes, while the spillway is a gated structure consisting of three 50 feet (15 m) long gates separated by 8 feet (2.4 m) thick piers. The control house of the dam is found immediately upstream of the headworks area.[2]
The Palo Verde Dam (officially called the Palo Verde Diversion Dam) is a dam on the Colorado River in Yuma and Riverside in the U.S. states of Arizona and California, approximately 9 miles (14 km) northeast of Blythe. The dam is earthen and rockfill, built solely to divert water into irrigation canals serving the Palo Verde Irrigation District. It measures 1,850 feet (560 m) long at its crest, which is at an elevation of 283.5 feet (86.4 m), and stands 46 feet (14 m) high above the riverbed, containing approximately
References
[1] "Palo Verde Dam". Geographic Names Information System. U.S. Geological Survey. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/ gnispublic/ f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:247175. Retrieved on 2009-02-28 [2] ^ "U.S. Bureau of Reclamation- Palo Verde Dam". http://www.usbr.gov/ dataweb/html/paloverde.html. Retrieved on 2009-02-28.
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