The Biggest Project in Yuma. Irrigation is the process by which a water supply is brought to the land or crops to aid its growth, and to do so channels are usually used. The yuma project was designed to irrigate Yuma County Arizona And part of California and thus to exploit to the maximum the agricultural activities of the place using as main source of water the Colorado River. The project began in the year of 1903 and with the a series of geographic, environmental and logistical challenges that the workers had to overcome to complete this project which would become the main driver of development in the city.
The geography of Arizona was a very important factor during the irrigation because there were many problems with it. As the first example we have the Gila River that thanks to was not feasible to make a channel there because the shape of Gila river constantly changes, if the river changes shape the water already would not reach the canal and the water could not lead to Yuma.As they noted that the Gila River could not be a safe source of water that they could depend on, they decided to build a large pipeline that would have the job of taking the water from the coiled river and transporting …show more content…
A problem since they had to dig 83 feet below the ground and then 995 feet from the Colorado River from California to Arizona,but this still had not finished after all this work they still had to introduce into the ground the duct which was a huge Pipe of cement, had to be of cement because thus the water would not filter and would not cause more serious damages later.To this duct of water was called Siphon of Yuma and today is still working.Another
The geography of Arizona was a very important factor during the irrigation because there were many problems with it. As the first example we have the Gila River that thanks to was not feasible to make a channel there because the shape of Gila river constantly changes, if the river changes shape the water already would not reach the canal and the water could not lead to Yuma.As they noted that the Gila River could not be a safe source of water that they could depend on, they decided to build a large pipeline that would have the job of taking the water from the coiled river and transporting …show more content…
A problem since they had to dig 83 feet below the ground and then 995 feet from the Colorado River from California to Arizona,but this still had not finished after all this work they still had to introduce into the ground the duct which was a huge Pipe of cement, had to be of cement because thus the water would not filter and would not cause more serious damages later.To this duct of water was called Siphon of Yuma and today is still working.Another