Irrigation EngineeringJ. Wiley and Sons, 1909 - 625 pages |
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Common terms and phrases
acre-feet acre-foot acres alkali amount of water Aqueduct Arizona artesian average banks Bed-width bottom built California capacity catchment basin cent channel Colorado Colorado River construction cost crest crops Cross-section Croton Dam cubic cubic foot curved deposited depth of water diameter discharge distributaries drainage drill duty of water earth dam Elevation embankment employed engineer equal evaporation excavation fall feet per second feet wide flood flume foot formula Ganges Canal Goulburn Weir gravel headworks height hydraulic India Interstate Canal irrigation land Leasburg lower masonry dam material maximum means measuring method miner's inches outlet overfall percolation pipe portion precipitation pressure pumping rainfall Reclamation Service Regulator Gates Reinforced Concrete reservoir River rock Roosevelt Dam rubble runoff sand second-feet seepage water sewage side silt slope Sluice soil square square mile steel storage stream supply surface thickness tion tunnel up-stream upper valley velocity vertical volume wall wasteway wheel width
Popular passages
Page 557 - ... report to Congress at the beginning of each regular session as to the results of such examinations and surveys, giving estimates of cost of all contemplated works, the quantity and location of the lands which can be irrigated therefrom, and all facts relative to the practicability of each irrigation project; also the cost of works in process of construction, as well as of those which have been completed.
Page 556 - That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to make examinations and surveys for, and to locate and construct as herein provided, irrigation works for the storage, diversion, and development of waters, including artesian wells...
Page 558 - That it is hereby declared to be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior in carrying out the provisions of this Act, so far as the same may be practicable and subject to the existence of feasible irrigation projects, to expend the major portion of the funds arising from the sale of public lands within each State and Territory hereinbefore named for the benefit of arid and semi-arid lands within the limits of such State or Territory...
Page 556 - That all moneys received from the sale and disposal of public lands in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming...
Page 556 - ... per centum of the proceeds of the sales of public lands in the above States set aside by law for educational and other purposes, shall be, and the same are hereby, reserved, set aside, and appropriated as a special fund in the Treasury to be known as the
Page 560 - That when the payments required by this Act are made for the major portion of the lands irrigated from the waters of any of the works herein provided for, then the management and operation of such irrigation •works shall pass to the owners of the lands irrigated thereby, to be maintained at their expense under such form of organization and under such rules and regulations as may be acceptable to the Secretary of the Interior...
Page 41 - States gallons per second; equals 448.8 gallons per minute ; equals 646,317 gallons for one day. 1 second-foot for one year covers 1 square mile 1.131 feet or 13.572 inches deep. 1 second-foot for one year equals 31,536,000 cubic feet. 1 second-foot equals about 1 acre-inch per hour. 1 second-foot for one day equals 86,400 cubic feet.
Page 557 - No right to the use of water for land in private ownership shall be sold for a tract exceeding 160 acres to any one landowner, and no such sale shall be made to any landowner unless he be an actual bona fide resident on such land, or occupant thereof residing in the neighborhood of said land, and no such right shall permanently attach until all payments therefor are made.
Page 559 - The limit of area per entry, representing the acreage which in the opinion of the Secretary of the Interior may be reasonably required for the support of a family...
Page 558 - That nothing in this Act shall be construed as affecting or intended to affect or to in any way interfere with the laws of any State or Territory relating to the control, appropriation, use, or distribution of water used in irrigation, or any vested right acquired thereunder...