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Map showing the All-American Canal (yellow). The All-American Canal was authorized along with 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.
Zonians (Spanish: Zoneítas, singular: zoneíta, zoniano) are people associated with the Panama Canal Zone, a political entity which existed between 1903 and the absorption of the Canal Zone into the Republic of Panama between 1979 and 1999. Most were American expatriates loyal to the United States. They helped build and maintain the canal.
Water from the Colorado River is diverted near Yuma, Arizona, into the 82-mile (132 km) All-American Canal. The canal runs west along the Mexican border and then north into 1,700 miles (2,700 km) of irrigation channels that crisscross the farms. [30] Gravity carries the agricultural runoff downhill through the New and Alamo rivers to the lake. [30]
Or what everyday life was like for people living 50, 100, or more years ago. There’s an online community dedicated to sharing photos, scanned documents, articles, and personal anecdotes from the ...
Patowmack Canal (Potomac Canal) MD: 1795 1828 Consists of the Little Falls Canal, Great Falls Canal, Seneca Falls Canal, Payne's Falls Canal, and House Falls Canal VA: Pawtucket Canal: MA: 1796 Pennsylvania Canal: PA: Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal: PA: 1840 1877 82 mi (132 km) OH: Portage Canal: WI: 1876 1951 2 mi (3.2 km) Powell's Canal: VA
The Gila Gravity Main Canal provides water for the Gila Valley in Arizona. The All-American Canal, which runs west to the Imperial Valley of California, is the largest irrigation canal in the world, capable of carrying 26,155 cubic feet per second (740.6 m 3 /s) – the entire natural flow
While the century-old records are imprecise, they show about 5,600 people died during the canal’s American construction phase between 1903 and 1914 – and “of those, the vast majority were ...
By 1916 the Imperial Irrigation District had purchased all the ex-California Development assets from Southern Pacific and assumed operation of the canal. [9] [15] Construction of the All-American Canal was completed in 1940. By 1942 the All-American Canal was the sole canal providing Colorado River water to the Imperial Valley. [2]