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    Alamo Canal (Spanish: Canal del Álamo) was a 14 mi (23 km) long waterway that connected the Colorado River to the head of the Alamo River. The canal was...
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    cities. It is the Imperial Valley's only water source, and replaced the Alamo Canal, which was located mostly in Mexico. The Imperial Dam, about 30 miles...
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    openings in the recently constructed levee bank of the Alamo Canal. The resulting flood poured down the canal and breached an Imperial Valley dike. The sudden...
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    prevent water loss to aquatic vegetation. All-American Canal All-American Canal Bridge Alamo Canal Imperial Irrigation District Imperial Land Company California...
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    when land speculator William Beatty built the Alamo Canal just north of the Mexican border; the canal dipped into Mexico before running to a desolate...
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    into the Alamo Canal. The resulting flood poured down the canal and down two formerly dry arroyos, the New River in the west and the Alamo River in the...
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    to design the Alamo Canal, which split from the Colorado near Pilot Knob, California and ran south into Mexico, where it joined the Alamo River, a dry...
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    Colorado escaped its channel into a pair of dry arroyos, the New River and Alamo River. For the next two years the Colorado flowed uncontrollably into the...
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    Aqueducts and canals Grand Ditch Colorado River Aqueduct San Diego Aqueduct Central Arizona Project All-American Canal Alamo Canal Coachella Canal Water projects...
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    section of what would be known as the Alamo Canal (also known as the Imperial Canal) during December 1900. The canal was designed to bring water from the...
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    not yet solved. All-American Canal All-American Canal Bridge Alamo Canal California Development Company Coachella Canal Imperial Irrigation District Imperial...
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    District (IID) relied on the Inter-California Canal and the Imperial Canal and Alamo River. The Imperial Dam was built with three sections; the gates of...
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    Colorado River to overrun a set of headgates for the Alamo Canal. The resulting flood poured down the canal and breached an Imperial Valley dyke. The sudden...
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    1904. The river flooded through a deliberately engineered breach of the Alamo Canal and flowed across the Imperial Valley plain into the Salton Sink, forming...
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  • The Central Arizona Project (CAP) is a 336 mi (541 km) diversion canal in Arizona in the southern United States. The aqueduct diverts water from the Colorado...
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    Upland civic center George Chaffey Bridge over Murray River, Mildura Alamo Canal California Development Company Imperial Land Company Salton Sea Ben Chaffey...
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  • California Development Company, but rather a separate corporate entity. Alamo Canal Imperial Irrigation District Kevin Starr (1991). Material Dreams: Southern...
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  • Imperial sand dunes west of Yuma and into the IID-operated Alamo Canal (also known as the Imperial Canal). Since 1942, water has been diverted at Imperial Dam...
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    is composed of two reservoirs, five pumping stations, 62 mi (100 km) of canals, 92 mi (148 km) of tunnels, and 84 mi (135 km) of buried conduit and siphons...
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