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Seal and logo of the United States Bureau of Reclamation, a part of the Department of the Interior. Source: Extracted from PDF version of 2005 Bureau of Reclamation Annual Report (direct PDF URL ). Also available here on this page. Colorized according to image on this page (GIFL URL ). Author: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation: Permission (Reusing ...
Artificial islands of the United States (9 C, 7 P) Pages in category "Land reclamation in the United States" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
After the passage of the Reclamation Act of 1902 by the US Congress, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ethan A. Hitchcock authorized the Yuma Project in 1904. This project was the first development of the U.S. Reclamation Service along the Lower Colorado River and featured the Laguna Diversion Dam, a pumping station and a series of canals. [1]
Many American reclamation districts were established prior to 1900 when local land owners first started working to put new land into agricultural production. Much of the lands "reclaimed" by 19th century reclamation districts were natural wetlands. Since wetlands are subject to flooding, these lands often were adjacent to sources of water ...
The Bureau of Reclamation, formerly the United States Reclamation Service, is a federal agency under the U.S. Department of the Interior, which oversees water resource management, specifically as it applies to the oversight and operation of the diversion, delivery, and storage projects that it has built throughout the western United States for irrigation, water supply, and attendant ...
The dams are components of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's Boise Project, and were designed to provide irrigation water to 500,000 acres (780 sq mi; 2,000 km 2) of Treasure Valley farmland in conjunction with the New York Irrigation District (New York Canal). The Boise River Diversion Dam also provides hydroelectric generation capacity. [1]
It was the first project of the newly organized U.S. Reclamation Service (known today as the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation), organized by the Reclamation Act of 1902. [ 4 ] As a result of the diversion, Winnemucca Lake lost inflow and dried up, and Pyramid Lake lost more than 80 feet (24 m) in elevation, resulting in the near-extinction of the ...
Begun in the 1880s, it is now managed by the United States Bureau of Reclamation, and provides irrigation water to a large area around Carlsbad, diverted from the Pecos River and the Black River. The late 19th and early 20th-century elements of the project were designated a National Historic Landmark District in 1964.