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Flow of the Colorado River and Other Western Boundary Streams And WESTERN WATER BULLETIN 2004 Flow of The Colorado River and other Western Boundary Streams and Related Data INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY AND WATER COMMISSION UNITED STATES AND MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF STATE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 2004 WESTERN BOUNDARY WATER BULLETIN - 2004 - INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY AND WATER COMMISSION CONTENTS Foreword and Acknowledgments . 4 General Hydrologic Conditions for 2004 . 6 Map of Western Boundary - Douglas, Arizona to Pacific Ocean . 44 I - COLORADO RIVER - IMPERIAL DAM TO GULF OF CALIFORNIA Map of Lower Colorado River, United States and Mexico . Inside Back Cover QUANTITY OF WATER Emergency Deliveries of Colorado River Water For Use In Tijuana, Baja California . 8 Stream-Flow and Stage Records Tributary - Reservation Main Drain No. 4 (California Drain) . 9 Yuma Main Canal Wasteway to Colorado River at Yuma, Arizona . 10 Colorado River below Yuma Main Canal Wasteway at Yuma, Arizona - Discharges . 11 below Yuma Main Canal Wasteway at Yuma, Arizona - Stages . 12 Tributary - Yuma Mesa Outlet Drain to Colorado River near Yuma, Arizona . 13 Drain No. 8-B (Araz Drain) . 14 Pilot Knob Power Plant and Wasteway near Pilot Knob, California . 15 Colorado River at Northerly International Boundary - Discharges . 16 at Northerly International Boundary - Stages . 17 Tributary - Cooper Wasteway (Valley Division, Yuma Project) . 18 Colorado River immediately above Morelos Dam - Stages . 19 Diversions from the Colorado River - Intake Canal at Morelos Diversion Structure - Discharges . 20 at Morelos Diversion Structure - Stages . 21 Colorado River immediately below Morelos Dam - Stages . 22 Tributary - Wellton-Mohawk Drainage Water Discharged to Colorado River below Morelos Dam . 23 Tributary - Eleven Mile Wasteway (Valley Division, Yuma Project) . 24 Colorado River at Eleven Mile Gage - Stages . 25 Tributary - Twenty-one Mile Wasteway (Valley Division, Yuma Project) . 26 East Main Canal Wasteway (Valley Division, Yuma Project) . 27 Yuma Main Drain (Valley Division, Yuma Project) . 28 Diversion Channel at Southerly International Boundary . 29 West Main Canal Wasteway (Valley Division, Yuma Project) . 30 242 Well Field near San Luis, Arizona . 31 Total Flows Crossing International Boundary into Mexico near San Luis, Sonora . 32 Colorado River at Southerly International Boundary - Discharges . 33 at Southerly International Boundary - Stages . 34 Wellton-Mohawk Bypass Drain at Southerly International Boundary . 35 Tributary - Wasteway to Colorado River at Kilometer 27 in Mexico . 36 Tributary - Wasteway to Colorado River at Kilometer 38 in Mexico . 37 Stored Water in Large Reservoirs of the Colorado River . 38 QUALITY OF WATER Suspended Silt in the Colorado River and Intake Canal at Morelos Diversion Structure . 39 Chemical Analyses of Water Samples . 40 Specific Conductance of Water Samples . 41 CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA AND IRRIGATED AREAS Rainfall on the Colorado River Watershed . 43 Location of Rainfall Stations on the Colorado River . 46 Evaporation in the Colorado River Basin . 47 Temperature in the Colorado River Basin . 48 Irrigated Areas along the Colorado River below Imperial Dam . 50 II - ALAMO AND NEW RIVERS QUANTITY OF WATER Stream-Flow and Stage Records Alamo River at International Boundary . 51 New River at International Boundary . 52 Tributary - Wastes from Mexicali Potable Water Plant to New River in Mexico . 53 Waste Waters from Mexican System of Canals Entering the United States . 54 Salton Sea - Elevations of Water Surface . 55 WESTERN BOUNDARY WATER BULLETIN - 2004 - INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY AND WATER COMMISSION CONTENTS QUALITY OF WATER Chemical Analyses of Water Samples . 56 III - TIJUANA RIVER Map of Tijuana River Drainage Basin . 59 QUANTITY OF WATER Stream-Flow Records Cottonwood Creek above Morena Dam, California . 60 below Morena Dam, California . 61 above Barrett Dam, California . 62 Diversions from Cottonwood Creek - Dulzura Conduit below Barrett Dam, California . 63 Cottonwood Creek below Barrett Dam, California . 64 above Tecate Creek near Dulzura, California . 65 Tributary - Campo Creek near Campo, California . 66 Inflows to Rodriguez Reservoir, Baja California . 67 Diversions from Rodriguez Reservoir, Baja California . 68 Tijuana River at International Boundary . 69 Stored Water in Reservoirs, Tijuana River Basin . 70 CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA AND DRAINAGE BASIN AND IRRIGATED AREAS Rainfall on the Tijuana River Watershed . 71 Location of Rainfall Stations on the Tijuana River Watershed . 73 Evaporation in the Tijuana River Basin . 74 Temperature in the Tijuana River Basin . 75 Drainage Areas above Gaging Stations and Irrigated Areas along Tijuana River and Tributaries . 76 IV - WHITEWATER DRAW, SAN PEDRO, AND SANTA CRUZ RIVERS Map of Western Boundary - Santa Cruz River, San Pedro River, and Whitewater Draw Basins . 77 QUANTITY OF WATER Stream-Flow Records Whitewater Draw near Douglas, Arizona . 78 Sewage Influent, Douglas, Arizona International Treatment Plant . 79 San Pedro River at Palominas, Arizona . 80 Santa Cruz River near Lochiel, Arizona . 81 near Nogales, Arizona . 82 Sewage Influent, Nogales International Treatment Plant . 83 CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA Rainfall and Location of Rainfall Stations on the Santa Cruz River Watershed . 84 Temperature in the Santa Cruz River Basin . 85 Drainage Areas above Gaging Stations and Irrigated Areas along Santa Cruz River, San Pedro River, and Whitewater Draw . 86 Corrections to Previous Water Bulletins . 87 WESTERN BOUNDARY WATER BULLETIN - 2004 - INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY AND WATER COMMISSION FOREWORD This bulletin is the forty-fifth annual compilation of stream discharges and other h ydrographic data relating to international aspects of the Colorado River below Imperial Dam, the Tijuana River, and other streams crossing the western land boundary of the United States and Mexico. The compilation was prepared jointly by the United States and Mexican Sections of the International Boundary and Water Commission, solely for the purpose of presenting statistical data relating to stream flow and kindred subjects for the Colorado River from Imperial Dam to the Gulf of California, the Tijuana River and its important tributaries in the United States and Mexico, and other streams, including the Alamo and New Rivers which cross the California-Baja California boundary, and the Santa Cruz River and Whitewater Draw which cross the Arizona-Sonora boundary. This Bulletin contains information for the year 2004. Stream gaging on the Colorado River below Imperial Dam began in 1902 when the station at Yuma, Arizona was established. Stage records were obtained at this station from January 1878 until December 1973, when it was discontinued. Continuous stream gaging on the Tijuana River and its important tributaries in the United States and in Mexico began in 1936. Each government operates the gaging stations located within its own country. COLORADO RIVER BELOW IMPERIAL DAM Below Imperial Dam, the Colorado River flows southward 16 kilometers to the mouth of the Gila River, thence westward 18 kilometers to Pilot Knob Mountain, and south 1.6 kilometers to the point where the northerly international land boundary, between California and Baja California, intersects the river. From this point the river continues to flow southward and forms the boundary between the United States and Mexico for a distance of about 35 kilometers to the point where the southerly international land boundary between Arizona and Sonora intersects the river. From this point the river continues to flow southward about 145 kilometers to discharge into the Gulf of California. The ordinary flows of Colorado River below Imperial Dam are largely controlled by releases at Hoover Dam, completed in 1935. The releases are further regulated at Davis Dam, completed in 1950, and by Parker and Imperial Dams, completed in 1938. Small amounts of runoff may occasionally be contributed to the flow in the lower river from the usually dry arroyos draining the 28,200 square kilometers along the river from Hoover Dam to the mouth of the Gila River. In addition, flows ranging from usually minor amounts to infrequent torrential floods may enter the lower Colorado River from the Bill Williams River, draining about 1,857 square kilometers below Alamo Dam and Lake, completed in 1963; and from the Gila River, draining about 18,900 square kilometers below Painted Rock Dam and Reservoir, completed in January 1960. At Imperial Dam, diversions are made to Gila Gravity Main Canal and All-American Canal for irrigation projects in Arizona, including the Yuma Valley, Gila and Wellton-Mohawk projects; and in California, including the Imperial Valley, Coachella Valley and Reservation Division of Yuma Project. Also, under the provisions of the 1944 Water Treaty, there may be diverted to the All-American Canal at Imperial Dam for delivery to Mexico in the Alamo Canal, or substitute canal, at the northerly boundary, a portion of Mexico's scheduled deliveries of waters of the Colorado River, which in 2004 amounted to 1,850,234 thousand cubic meters, in accordance with Article 10 of the 1944 Water Treaty. No diversions were made to a substitute canal in 2004. Below Laguna Dam, measured and unmeasured flows are returned to the river principally as waste and drain- age water from the irrigation projects in the United States. Waste and drainage waters from irrigation projects in the United States also cross the boundary into Mexico near San Luis, Arizona without returning to the river in the United States. In the limitrophe section of the river, 1.8 kilometers
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