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The Palo Verde Irrigation District (PVID), with its water sourced from the Palo Verde Diversion Dam, controls the canal system for these fields. Dating back to Thomas Henry Blythe's filing in 1877, the PVID has the most senior Colorado River water rights of any California agency. [7]
The dam is earthen and rockfill, built solely to divert water into irrigation canals serving the Palo Verde Irrigation District. It measures 1,850 feet (560 m) long at its crest, which is at an elevation of 283.5 feet (86.4 m), and stands 46 feet (14 m) high above the riverbed, containing approximately 175,000 cubic yards (134,000 m 3 ) of ...
The Blythe Intake is the place of the first irrigation canal to feed water to the Palo Verde Valley in 1877. It is located just north of Blythe, California in Riverside County, California. The Blythe Intake was designated a California Historic Landmark (No.948) on March 1, 1982. The site of the Blythe Intake is currently at the Palo Verde Dam. [1
Aerial view from the north of the Colorado River on the Arizona–California border, showing the small Palo Verde Diversion Dam that diverts water to the west (right) into the main canal to irrigate the Palo Verde Valley around Blythe. Canals on the Arizona side (left) in the Parker Valley are also visible, in the foreground.
The river flows through the Parker Valley, much of which belongs to the Colorado River Indian Reservation, and then the Palo Verde Valley, where it is crossed by Interstate 10 near Blythe, California. The small Headgate Rock Dam removes water for irrigation in the Parker Valley and the Palo Verde Dam provides
none (Palo Verde Valley Irrigation District) Palo Verde Diversion Dam: Colorado River: Riverside: United States Bureau of Reclamation: 1957: Earth and rock: 46: 14?? Pardee Reservoir: Pardee Dam: Mokelumne River: Amador and Calaveras: East Bay Municipal Utility District: 1929: Gravity: 345: 105: 179,950: 221,960 Pilarcitos Reservoir: Pilarcitos ...
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Map showing locations of major dams in the Colorado River basin. Lee's Ferry , which separates the Upper and Lower Basins, is located just downriver from Glen Canyon Dam . This is a list of dams on the Colorado River system of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico .