Yuma Case Study

when it comes to the development of yuma county there is may things that make it the city it is today but nothing like the creation and innovation that is the irrigation system put in place on the colorado river. Yuma or arizona city as it was known in the olden days was a small town with nothing much going for it and being used as a crossing for ferries and occasionally for trains. But all that changed with the irrigation of yuma, thanks to the US government funding and U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. putting yuma on the right direction .

Question 1 : did the yuma project have both positive and negative effect on yuma country
The Yuma project was a very good success on the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation part . it have a lot of positives and a
and it also wasn't really well at distributing the water equally there was some areas that the colorado river that used to go to and fill up and give stability to sustain communities was drying up due to the more need of the water up stream . “The Colorado River, on which the Cocopah people fished and farmed for about 2,000 years, is often drained dry by upstream demand before reaching this part of Baja, California.” and “ Water diverted by users farther up the river cause shortages downstream, as well.”but with being said the yuma project was probably more beneficial than negative to yuma county . before to when the us bureau of reclamation deciding to build these means of irrigating the land with the help of the colorado river . it was dangerous to live near the river “When it flooded, the sediment-laden river clogged diversion headworks and
for instance some of the factors of the cost of it was the man power and the initial cost and the time it took to make irrigation possible . ok lets start off with the amount of money they spent on it . there was many things to that make up irrigation in yuma but i'm going to be going of from the cost of the The Wellton-Mohawk District irrigation . they invested a whopping 66 million on the project . and i don't doubt that they made maybe of hard working man to build all of the dams and or canals.“$66 million invested in the project by the United States and the Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation and Drainage District.” another thing that was a cost of irrigating yuma was the lost of a form of transportation people and goods ,which was steamboating . “the steamboats ruled the river and supplied much of the early building blocks of the territory”. The process of irrigating the place took a while to get it to where it is right now . for it all offical start in 1906 and it is probably still going on in present time with irrigation innovations . and when it comes to how beneficial it became to yuma country it was a home run. The yuma project was a major success geologically and economically. “ In 1962 the Project association finished paying in full its