Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Texas Irrigation Canals. The First Lift Station in Mission Texas once provided water for irrigating the crops of the early Rio Grande Valley. The lift station was dedicated as a Texas Historic Landmark by the Texas Historical Commission in 1985. Texas has many irrigation canals with the majority of large canal networks in the Rio Grande Valley ...
CVP aqueducts are in blue while SWP aqueducts are in red. The Central Valley Project (CVP) is a federal power and water management project in the U.S. state of California under the supervision of the United States Bureau of Reclamation (USBR). It was devised in 1933 in order to provide irrigation and municipal water to much of California's ...
Center-pivot irrigation (sometimes called central pivot irrigation), also called water-wheel and circle irrigation, is a method of crop irrigation in which equipment rotates around a pivot and crops are watered with sprinklers. [1][2] A circular area centered on the pivot is irrigated, often creating a circular pattern in crops when viewed from ...
The Friant-Kern Canal is a 152 mi (245 km) aqueduct managed by the United States Bureau of Reclamation in Central California to convey water to augment irrigation capacity in Fresno, Tulare, and Kern counties. A part of the Central Valley Project, canal construction began in 1949 and was completed in 1951 at a cost of $60.8 million.
Map showing the All-American Canal (yellow). The All-American Canal was authorized along with the Hoover Dam by the 1928 Boulder Canyon Project Act and built in the 1930s by the United States Bureau of Reclamation and Six Companies, Inc. [4] Its design and construction was supervised by the Bureau's then chief designing engineer, John L. Savage, and was completed in 1942.
The Central Valley Project is a network of 20 dams, reservoirs and other infrastructure that store and convey water along a 400-mile path from Redding to Bakersfield.
The lake's surface is at 2,370 ft (720 m) above MSL. Trinity Lake captures and stores water for the Central Valley Project, which provides the Central Valley with water for irrigation and produces hydroelectric power. This lake is known for its many small arms, glassy inlets, and good water-skiing conditions.
The Franklin Canal is an irrigation canal in the Upper Rio Grande Valley near El Paso, Texas. The canal acquires water from the Rio Grande via the American Canal. The canal is 28.4 miles (45.7 km) long with a capacity of 325 cubic feet per second (9.2 m 3 /s). The Franklin Irrigation Company completed the canal in 1891 at a cost of $150,000.