All American Canal monitoring project
Date
2005-10
Authors
Bradshaw, David, author
U.S. Committee on Irrigation and Drainage, publisher
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Abstract
Imperial Irrigation District (IID) will strategically place four independent sensor setups along the All American Canal (AAC) for better monitoring of flow in the canal. More accurate measurement is needed of flow into the Imperial Valley as well as for the diversions along the AAC upstream of Pilot Knob, and to Mexico at Pilot Knob. Increases in measurement accuracy will allow IID, which operates the AAC, to better account for supply and more efficiently distribute the water in order to manage the canal under the conditions of the Colorado River Quantification Settlement Agreement of 2003 (QSA). This monitoring project is expected to produce the result that three geographic areas (Mexico, Coachella Valley, and Imperial Valley) receive their proper amount of water for agricultural, municipal, and industrial uses; eliminating most delivery discrepancies and expensive overuse paybacks to the river.
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Presented at SCADA and related technologies for irrigation district modernization: a USCID water management conference on October 26-29, 2005 in Vancouver, Washington.