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The Colorado River Commission of Nevada is a Nevada executive-level state agency that regulates and manages the usage of the Colorado River on behalf of Nevada. [1] [2] The agency is headed by an appointed commissioner, and the position is currently occupied by Puoy K. Premsirut. [3] It is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada. [4]
Davis Dam is a dam on the Colorado River about 70 miles (110 km) downstream from Hoover Dam. [1] It stretches across the border between Arizona and Nevada.Originally called Bullhead Dam, Davis Dam was renamed after Arthur Powell Davis, who was the director of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation from 1914 to 1923.
It turns south near Las Vegas, Nevada, forming the Arizona–Nevada border in Lake Mead and the Arizona–California border a few miles below Davis Dam between Laughlin, Nevada and Needles, California before entering Mexico in the Colorado Desert. Most of its waters are diverted into the Imperial Valley of Southern California.
The Colorado River can be seen leading southward away from the lake on the top left. The Hoover Dam is located where the river meets the lake. Sediment-laden water from the Colorado River flowing into Lake Mead in March 2013. Nine main access points to the lake are available. On the west are three roads from the Las Vegas metropolitan area.
Map showing the Upper and Lower Colorado River Basin, and adjacent areas supplied by Colorado River water. The Colorado River Basin consists of 246,000 square miles (640,000 km 2), making it the seventh largest drainage basin in North America. [1] About 238,600 square miles (618,000 km 2), or 97 percent of the basin, is in the United States. [40]
Nov. 17—HENDERSON — The Civic Center at Vance-Granville Community College hosted the Area IV Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts' biannual meeting on Thursday. Area IV ...
In those years the Colorado Steam Navigation Company sent the Gila many times and once in 1881, the Mohave II, up to Rioville from the El Dorado Canyon mines for salt during the high water months.(See Richard E. Lingenfelter, Steamboats on the Colorado River, 1852-1916, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 1978, pp. 76,78).
The Colorado River Aqueduct, or CRA, is a 242 mi (389 km) water conveyance in Southern California in the United States, operated by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. The aqueduct impounds water from the Colorado River at Lake Havasu on the California– Arizona border, west across the Mojave and Colorado deserts to the ...