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The act at first covered only 16 of the western states, as delineated by the 100th meridian, as Texas had no federal lands. [1] Texas was added later by a special act passed in 1906. [2] The act set aside money from sales of semi-arid public lands for the construction and maintenance of irrigation projects. The newly irrigated land would be ...
Portland is a city primarily located in San Patricio County with some water bodies extending into Nueces County in the U.S. state of Texas. Its population was 20,383 as of the 2020 United States census .
The First Lift Station in Mission in the Rio Grande Valley became a Texas Historic Landmark in 1985. Texas has many irrigation canals with the majority of large canal networks in the Rio Grande Valley and the Gulf Coast, though smaller systems are located throughout the state. Canals provide water to dry climates to irrigate crops.
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The Franklin Canal is an irrigation canal in the Upper Rio Grande Valley near El Paso, Texas. The canal acquires water from the Rio Grande via the American Canal. The canal is 28.4 miles (45.7 km) long with a capacity of 325 cubic feet per second (9.2 m 3 /s). The Franklin Irrigation Company completed the canal in 1891 at a cost of $150,000.
After World War II the project suffered a number of setbacks. Irrigation water began to arrive between 1948 and 1952, but the costs escalated, resulting in the original plan, in which the people receiving irrigation water would pay back the costs of the project over time, being repeatedly revised and becoming a permanent water subsidy.
Payment of Prevailing Rate of Wages in Public Building Contracts, Stipulations Jan. 19 5779 Tongass National Forest, Alaska, Exclusion of Lands From, and Such Lands Opened to Entry Jan. 21 5780 Arizona and Utah, Restoration of Lands Withdrawn for Public Water Reserve No. 34, Arizona No. 5 and Public Water Reserve No. 1, Utah No. 1 Jan. 25 5781