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Irrigation efforts stimulated population growth in the Spokane Valley significantly in the early part of the 20th century.
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Irrigation and efforts
Thompson died in 1910, but his efforts came to fruition as The Maverick County Irrigation Canal system, operational by April 1932.
At the same time, he actively assisted Representative Francis G. Newlands ( later Senator ) of Nevada, George H. Maxwell of California, President of the National Irrigation Association, and others in the preparation and public presentation of various Congressional bills, one of which by the personal efforts of President Theodore Roosevelt became the Reclamation Act when signed by the latter on June 17, I902.
Irrigation and population
The construction of the Irrigation Project and the military activity increased the population of Ephrata by a factor of eight between 1940 and 1960.
Irrigation and growth
Irrigation equipment is installed in the bed to provide irrigation for vine growth and for spring and autumn frost protection.
Irrigation is an artificial application of water into soil for plant growth and survival, in horticulture and agriculture ..
Irrigation and Spokane
In 1905, the Spokane Canal Company built a canal to irrigate the Otis Orchard area with water from Newman Lake, and Modern Irrigation and Land Company tapped into the underground aquifer to irrigate 3, 000 acres ( 12 km² ) in Opportunity.
In August, speaking at the annual meeting of the National Irrigation Congress in Spokane, Washington, he accused Ballinger of siding with private trusts in his handling of water power issues.
Irrigation and Valley
These were replaced by hydraulic systems ( T-L Irrigation ) and electric motor driven systems ( Reinke, Valley, Zimmatic ).
As of 2010, it's been reported that there are less than 12 U. S. manufacturers, of which five are major: Valmont Industries and their " Valley " products, Lindsay Corporation and their " Zimmatic " brand, Reinke Irrigation with their " Electrogator " machines, T-L Irrigation who make a hydrostatically powered system and Pierce Corporation and their " CircleMaster " products.
Wild Horse Reservoir was constructed in 1936 for the Duck Valley Irrigation Project.
A town had been platted and promoted as Ruby Townsite by Harley J. Hooker, who sold land for $ 1. 25 per acre when the Jordan Valley Irrigation District began constructing an irrigation dam and canal system near Danner about 1910.
Many small diversion dams block the Merced River downstream, many of which were built by the Merced Irrigation District to supply water to farms in the Central Valley.
Currently the Truckee-Carson Irrigation District supervises the diversion of approximately one-third of the river flow at the Derby Dam to the Lahontan Valley to irrigate alfalfa and pastures.
The Truckee-Carson Irrigation District was formed in 1918 as part of the project to divert water from the Truckee River to the Carson Valley for agricultural use.
Pearson was established in 1912 by the Medina Valley Irrigation Company as a stop on the Southern Pacific Railroad.
* South Valley Development Project in Toshka, Egyptian Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation
* Irrigation and hydroelectricity in the Damodar Valley, India,
The stored here comes from a watershed of over, and is used by the Modesto Irrigation District ( MID ) and the Turlock Irrigation District ( TID ) for the irrigation of several hundred square miles of productive Central Valley farm land.
It was formed on January 1, 1970, when Consumers Public Power District, Platte Valley Public Power and Irrigation District ( PVPPID ) and Nebraska Public Power System merged to become Nebraska Public Power District.
In June 1863, the Sacramento Valley Irrigation Company incorporated with Green as its president.
In 1888, Green broke ground on the Central Irrigation District canal and he organized the Sacramento Valley Development Corporation to attract settlers for the soon to be irrigated land.
Irrigation and early
Shepherd, a prominent early settler and owner of the Billings Land and Irrigation Company and the Merchants National Bank.
At the park entrance, the old power house, a gray concrete building from the early 1900s build by North Platte Irrigation Company to supply power to pump water from North Platte River for irrigation is still preserved.
Its vast flat lands become the major rice production area of Davao Province when the National Irrigation Administration-Asian Development Bank ( NIA-ADB ) constructed an irrigation system in the early part of 1970 that serve the southwestern portion of the municipality.
Irrigation was used in early spring, to keep frosts off the ground and so allow the grass to grow several weeks earlier, and in dry summer weather to keep the grass growing.
Irrigation and part
Irrigation helped make Dimmit County part of the Texas Winter Garden Region.
Agriculture became an important part of the region after the Lower Yellowstone Irrigation Project was completed in 1909.
The Eastern Irrigation District ( EID ), headquartered in Brooks, Alberta, was originally part of land that the federal government granted the Canadian Pacific Railway in lieu of a portion of the payment for the construction of the railway.
The Potholes Reservoir is part of the Columbia Basin Irrigation Project.
Part of the canal project was then purchased by the Bear River Land Company, and part of the irrigation project by the Bear River Irrigation Company.
Griffith was established in 1916 as part of the New South Wales State Government's Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area ( MIA ) project to supply irrigation from the Murrumbidgee river in western New South Wales to be used for farming.
It is part of the Ord River Irrigation Scheme and is located near the East Kimberley ( Western Australia ) town of Kununurra.
Lake Argyle, together with Lake Kununurra, is part of the Ord River Irrigation Scheme.
The site forms part of the Ord Irrigation Area Important Bird Area ( IBA ), so identified by BirdLife International because of its importance for wild birds, especially estrildid finches.
Irrigation and 20th
The Ord River Irrigation Scheme was built in stages during the 20th century.
Irrigation and century
The Dujiangyan Irrigation System, built in the 3rd century BC under the inspection of Li Bing, was the symbol of agricultural engineering of that period.
Irrigation and .
In April 2008, the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation of Yemen and Comoros Ministry of Fishery and Environment signed a " Memo of Understanding " ( MOU ) concerning agricultural cooperation.
Irrigation is extremely wasteful of water because the distribution infrastructure is old and poorly maintained.
Irrigation is widely used, and marshlands in the Danube's floodplain have been diked and drained to provide additional tillable land.
Irrigation now depends mainly on the decrepit Garagum Canal, which carries water across Turkmenistan from the Amu Darya.
Valves are majorly used in water controlling for Irrigation as well as industrial, military, commercial, residential, and transport sectors.
* The enormous Du Jiang Yan Irrigation System of China is engineered and constructed by Li Bing in 256 BC.
* The Du Jiang Yan Irrigation System is constructed, ending flooding and irrigating thousands of square miles of land through an ingeniously designed system.
* c. 5400 BC: Irrigation and the beginning of the Sumerian civilization in Southern Iraq.
Irrigation is the artificial application of water to the land or soil.
Irrigation systems are also used for dust suppression, disposal of sewage, and in mining.
Irrigation is often studied together with drainage, which is the natural or artificial removal of surface and sub-surface water from a given area.
Irrigation began in Nubia some time between the third and second millennium BCE.
In the Szechwan region belonging to the State of Qin of ancient China, the Dujiangyan Irrigation System was built in 256 BCE to irrigate an enormous area of farmland that today still supplies water.
Irrigation using watering cans is to be found for example in peri-urban agriculture around large cities in some African countries.
Irrigation systems are divided into zones because there is usually not enough pressure and available flow to run sprinklers for an entire yard or sports field at once.
There are many important multi-state irrigation projects in development, including the Godavari River Basin Irrigation Projects.
Irrigation systems were also developed at this time, which aided in the rise of an agrarian society.
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