Irrigation in yuma and its significance.
Intro:
Question 1: Describe in detail how irrigation changed yuma?
Yuma has changed in many ways over many years. It is known for a few things such as the sunniest city on earth. This is a big contributor to the success of yuma's agriculture in an otherwise barren and dry landscape yuma has ingenious ways of delivering water to their plants. This is their methods of irrigation they take water from the colorado and divert it by use of canals and dams. Irrigation has affected yuma in many ways one that is not as important anymore but was very important at one time is the steamboat at the time the dams were built this was a very viable method of travel that could now no longer do its job the water …show more content…
Another thing is moving the3 water everywhere it needs to be and back this requires several canals and then the yuma siphon as well which is used to help move water back into our canals from the ones we send through california.”In 1912, the Colorado River Siphon was an engineering breakthrough. It was designed to take water from a canal on the California side of the Colorado to the Arizona side” this is one example of how we used irrigation and how geography got in our way we dug down and under the river to move this water but the landscape is rough and was not easy to dig through. The yuma siphon went down 85 feet across 965 feet then back up 90 feet due to the different ground levels on each side. “ In 1912, the Colorado River Siphon was an engineering breakthrough ” And it was for the time. It was a tunnel built under a ton of rocks and water that still snakes under that part of the river today. I personally believe for the time it may have been one of the best things built. The water ran through a california canal and used the siphon to return to yuma side of the river. The natural silt in the water because of the rocky edges of the river washed down by the rushing water Caused many problems it would fill the canals and block up water routes.”When it flooded, the sediment-laden river clogged diversion headworks and irrigation …show more content…
Their biggest problem was probably themselves the confusion scaring them a lot and throughout the land this fear spread but the people stayed valiant and close and made sure they were doing what they needed to survive. Other harsh things exist in these harsh lands such as animals coyotes and other creatures that create a hassle for these settlers. Coyotes would steal food and attack if challenged. ”When it flooded, the sediment-laden river clogged diversion headworks and irrigation canals,which created serious water delivery and maintenance problems.” canals caused big problems for the people they were hard to maintain in the beginning and the silt caused them to have to actually build some diversion dredges. This is to get around the silt filled canals in the way of water being moved through these canals along the way. Geography did not help these things develope easier issues and they only got
Intro:
Question 1: Describe in detail how irrigation changed yuma?
Yuma has changed in many ways over many years. It is known for a few things such as the sunniest city on earth. This is a big contributor to the success of yuma's agriculture in an otherwise barren and dry landscape yuma has ingenious ways of delivering water to their plants. This is their methods of irrigation they take water from the colorado and divert it by use of canals and dams. Irrigation has affected yuma in many ways one that is not as important anymore but was very important at one time is the steamboat at the time the dams were built this was a very viable method of travel that could now no longer do its job the water …show more content…
Another thing is moving the3 water everywhere it needs to be and back this requires several canals and then the yuma siphon as well which is used to help move water back into our canals from the ones we send through california.”In 1912, the Colorado River Siphon was an engineering breakthrough. It was designed to take water from a canal on the California side of the Colorado to the Arizona side” this is one example of how we used irrigation and how geography got in our way we dug down and under the river to move this water but the landscape is rough and was not easy to dig through. The yuma siphon went down 85 feet across 965 feet then back up 90 feet due to the different ground levels on each side. “ In 1912, the Colorado River Siphon was an engineering breakthrough ” And it was for the time. It was a tunnel built under a ton of rocks and water that still snakes under that part of the river today. I personally believe for the time it may have been one of the best things built. The water ran through a california canal and used the siphon to return to yuma side of the river. The natural silt in the water because of the rocky edges of the river washed down by the rushing water Caused many problems it would fill the canals and block up water routes.”When it flooded, the sediment-laden river clogged diversion headworks and irrigation …show more content…
Their biggest problem was probably themselves the confusion scaring them a lot and throughout the land this fear spread but the people stayed valiant and close and made sure they were doing what they needed to survive. Other harsh things exist in these harsh lands such as animals coyotes and other creatures that create a hassle for these settlers. Coyotes would steal food and attack if challenged. ”When it flooded, the sediment-laden river clogged diversion headworks and irrigation canals,which created serious water delivery and maintenance problems.” canals caused big problems for the people they were hard to maintain in the beginning and the silt caused them to have to actually build some diversion dredges. This is to get around the silt filled canals in the way of water being moved through these canals along the way. Geography did not help these things develope easier issues and they only got