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The pesticide issue is even greater in streams and water bodies near agricultural lands irrigated by the Imperial Irrigation District with Colorado River water. In the Imperial Valley, Colorado River water used for irrigation overflows into the New and Alamo rivers and into the Salton Sea. Both rivers and the sea are among the most polluted ...
The Lower Colorado River Valley has unique plant communities because it is the most arid part of the desert and it has the highest temperatures, in excess of 120 °F (49 °C) during the summer. The low humidity means that most plants must have mechanisms that deal with severe water loss through evaporation.
The river's first diversion is here at its headwater. The Grand Ditch redirects water from the Never Summer Mountains, which would have flowed into the Colorado River, to instead flow across the divide through La Poudre Pass to irrigate farmland to the east. Near the source of the Colorado River in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado
The Imperial Valley in Southern California relies 100% on the Colorado River for its water. This valley receives less than three inches of rain a year, yet still produces about two-thirds of the ...
Bureau of Reclamation regions. This is a list of valleys within the Lower Colorado River Valley corridor, from the Hoover Dam region, south to the Mexico border.. Six valleys are contained within neighboring bajadas and mountain ranges, on the Colorado River proper; other tributary valleys flow during desert rain episodes, and are otherwise dry washes.
Capote Ute band [54] [k] [l] [m] — native to the upper Rio Grande valley and the San Luis Valley. Mouache Ute band [54] [k] [m] — native to the eastern slope of the Southern Rocky Mountains, from Denver south into New Mexico. Parianuche Ute band, later known as the Grand River or White River band [n] [o] — native to the upper Colorado ...
As climate change and overuse threaten the Colorado River, Native American tribes seek a larger role in the river's stewardship. 'A living spirit': Native people push for changes to protect the ...
Yuma Crossing is a site in Arizona and California that is significant for its association with transportation and communication across the Colorado River.It connected New Spain and Las Californias in the Spanish Colonial period in [2] and also during the Western expansion of the United States.