Irrigation Of Yumma Analysis

Evelyn Curtis
Coursework
Ploude 1
Irrigation of Yuma
Intro
Question 1: Did the Yuma Project have both positive and negative effects on Yuma County?

The Yuma Project did have both positive and negative things on Yuma County. Some of the positive things that happened in the Yuma County was that the earliest following the Reclamation Act of 1902, the Siphon Drop Power Plant, and there was 3.6 miles of canals and 18 miles of laterals. Some negative effects that happened was that there was a flood that hit in 1916 and broke records and the earthquake that hit on may 18,1940, dan prevents upriver travel, and water level crops down river, prevented safe boat movement. The hoover had an effect

The area would probably decrease about 5,000 people. From the 71,000 acres or irrigable land 17,000 acrea of that is owned privately. Farms, Irrigable acreage, total population, and the crops can grom within the southwest. There would also be a loss of 2.26 billion dollar a year to the local economy. The annual economic impact is estimated at about five times the annual agricultural income which is a total of about 185,000,000. In the investment of the US facilities 50 percent is the total for the income of the taxes. The population in Yuma County is noticable. The se the more sprinklers you had used the more that the water was gonna cost. This had allowed the produce growers to grow lettuce by the first of september and the sprinkles help to germinate in the heat which was repeated through september. On June 29,1912 the very first wave of water had flowed through the Yuma Siphon and 100 years later the water was still flowing in the underground passage way to irrigate 50,000 acres. The Yuma Siphon can still be used because of how the people designed it. The hostoric buliding had fallen over a few decades later and the aid was able to renovate the buliding and they had created an exibit with a total of 25,000 dollars. The reason this exibit had been created to show that the people that had created the project had a face. Yuma was still Arizona City and back than it was estimiated that there was really only 150 residents living in Yuma. It was said that even though there wasnt very many residents living in the place there was traffic a decade before that because people were utilizing the Yuma Crossing where the river narroweed to go to the California gold fields. Yuma had been one of the first towns to go from east to west, Now in 2015, the water is used to be provided to give water to the populations to seven states and to Mexico and this os the word of the day. The