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Pros And Cons Of The Yima Project

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The Yuma Project was an arguably huge step for the city of Yuma in Arizona. It made so much progress into being such a good thing, but it was also a pretty bad thing as well. For example, within the positives list, farming would be comparatively simple, as for the same crops could be grown using the same methods of cultivation and irrigation used as in other parts of the territory. Alfalfa, an important crop needed to be grown, was growing at a reasonable profit, and lastly, most of all the soils were mostly sandy, making maintenance of crops easier. These were the main benefits or positives of the Yuma Project in this list. Now, over looking the positives, there were many huge problems or negatives going on. All those sandy soils mentioned …show more content…

Some time before the treaty with Mexico, around in 1931, the Palo Verde Irrigation District, the Imperial Irrigation District, the Yuma Project and lands in Imperial and Coachella valleys were included by the California Seven-Party agreement, stating that they will all be served by the All-American Canal. Not only that, but 16,000 acres of mesa lands within the Palo Verde Irrigation District will be entitled to 3.85 MAF annually, along with Priority 4 being allocated 550,000 acre-feet annually to the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California as well. These first four California priorities end up totalling up to 4.4 MAF. Now if we check out the organizations within the Seven-Party Agreement in present times, only the Palo Verde Irrigation District, Imperial Irrigation District and the Reservation Division, Yuma Project California Division, or at least the non-Indian portion of it, all have perfected …show more content…

Lastly, there was the Gadsden Purchase and it’s effect on Yuma. So one of the more important Acts to be passed during the Yuma Project was the National Reclamation Act on June 17, 1907, reason being the Secretary of Interior and how they were, under the act, developing using government money irrigation projects, along with having the cost to be re payed by the land

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