Yuma Irrigation Irrigation has been very significant in the Yuma county for decades, irrigation is the reason why Yuma has one of the best soil to develop and grow crops in. Yuma depends on irrigation to get the sources it needs, from growing perfect crops to making great profit. Without all the irrigation systems like dams and canals and successful ideas by representatives Yuma wouldn’t be the town we all know it by and that’s why irrigation is so important in Yuma county, because without it Yuma wouldn’t have developed so well like the way it has been for the past years. Throughout the years irrigation has changed Yuma in many different ways both positive and negative. In the 1800’s people used Steamer boats as their transportation to
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With the Yuma Project it increased the growth of land and created new farms all around Yuma which eventually made new homes for people to settle in and new land to farm in. The Hoover Dam allows control over a previously uncontrollable or unpredictable river. Due to the irrigation on the Hoover Dam it allows construction on new buildings, towns, cities, farms, fields down river it also allows for construction of other dams and irrigation systems farther down river. The Hoover is one of the most successful dams build, “Hoover Dam is significant beyond its physical proportions and the construction skills and techniques it represents. It is also significant because of the benefits it confers on the entire lower Colorado River Basin.” With the Hoover Dam and other irrigation systems it has brought tons of people together to come and settle in new homes or farms across Yuma county. It’s not only important to regular people around the area but it’s important to many across the county Yuma opened it’s arms to army veterans and offered them homesteads for farming, “The 54 lucky vets came from all sections of the nation. They represent 16 states from New Jersey to Oregon. The biggest group came from California, which sends 21 veterans to the Yuma-Mesa homesteads.” Each veteran had to participate on irrigating the farm they had to keep the homesteads they were offered, “Homesteads drawn this morning range in size from 40 to 160 acres, making a total of 1910 acres on the Yuma-Mesa division of the Gila Project.”they either had to use it as a home or a farming building. People in the Yuma county rely on irrigation as their only water source for crops,frields, farms and to build new resources to build the economy in Yuma county “Today nearly 17 million people depend on the Colorado's waters. The basin population has expanded dramatically in recent years, with most growth occurring in
With the Yuma Project it increased the growth of land and created new farms all around Yuma which eventually made new homes for people to settle in and new land to farm in. The Hoover Dam allows control over a previously uncontrollable or unpredictable river. Due to the irrigation on the Hoover Dam it allows construction on new buildings, towns, cities, farms, fields down river it also allows for construction of other dams and irrigation systems farther down river. The Hoover is one of the most successful dams build, “Hoover Dam is significant beyond its physical proportions and the construction skills and techniques it represents. It is also significant because of the benefits it confers on the entire lower Colorado River Basin.” With the Hoover Dam and other irrigation systems it has brought tons of people together to come and settle in new homes or farms across Yuma county. It’s not only important to regular people around the area but it’s important to many across the county Yuma opened it’s arms to army veterans and offered them homesteads for farming, “The 54 lucky vets came from all sections of the nation. They represent 16 states from New Jersey to Oregon. The biggest group came from California, which sends 21 veterans to the Yuma-Mesa homesteads.” Each veteran had to participate on irrigating the farm they had to keep the homesteads they were offered, “Homesteads drawn this morning range in size from 40 to 160 acres, making a total of 1910 acres on the Yuma-Mesa division of the Gila Project.”they either had to use it as a home or a farming building. People in the Yuma county rely on irrigation as their only water source for crops,frields, farms and to build new resources to build the economy in Yuma county “Today nearly 17 million people depend on the Colorado's waters. The basin population has expanded dramatically in recent years, with most growth occurring in