an additional 25 new drainage wells, making a total of 92 wells in the area from which drainage water could be pumped selectively in a manner to vary its quality according to the quantity of water available in the Colorado River for dilution. Only...
|
NONSECURITY CONFIDENTIAL
November 14, 1962
We have received infornation that FLORES, Mexican Ambassador, has advised Manuel TELLO, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, that Secretary UDALL had told him that the United States were going to...
|
AIR MAIL
HANDLING INDICATOR
OFFICIAL USE ONLY
FOREIGN SERVICE DESPATCH
45
NO.
March 13, 1962
DATE
FROM: Amconsul TIJUANA
TO: THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE. WASHINGTON.
REF:
SUBJECT: Mexican Officials Refuse to Attend Dedication of Point Loma Salt...
|
Letter: From Robert M. Sayre, to Joseph F. Friedkin, December 2, 1964, page 2
1967-12-02
2006-09-14 |
Document: From United States Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, "Federacion Estatal Campesina de Sonora", August 12, 1964, page 1
1964-08-12
|
EL FRONTERIZO
Ciuded Juére, Chih., Viernes 25 de Octobre de 1963
Quedó Resuelta Provisionalmente lo
Salinidad en Mexicali, B. C.
Relaciones Informa del Arreglo
Agua de Buena Calidad Para la Siambra Invernal
MEXICO, Octubre 24, (CGV) El...
|
- 2 -
that his Government would regard the Bureau's program as unacceptable. The Mexican Commissioner stated that the Mexicali farmers had confidently assumed that the water delivered this winter would be usable. He feared, if it became public...
|
-8-
irrigated acreage of the Mexicali Valley. Since the initiation of pumping at Wellton-Mohawk, the drainage system in the Mexicali Valley has not been able to carry off all of the heavy salt concentrations in the water.
Inasmuch as the...
|
Report: From W. E. Walker to Commissioner J.F. Friedkin, "Data Collected in Mexicali Valley by Bureau of Reclamation Engineers, November 5-9, 1962," November 16, 1962
1962-11-16
2006-08-30 |
IMCOMING TELEGRAM
Department of State
US mex waters
47
CONFIDENTIAL
Control: 121,5
Rec'd: SEPTEMBER 3, 1963
10:10 PK
Action
ARA
Info
SS
G
SP
L
H
CAP
SCI
E
AID
P
USIA
NSC
INR
CIA
NSA
AGR
INT
RMR
FROM: MEXICO CITY
TO: Secretary of State
NO:...
|
Phase 2 contemplates construction of a second outlet drainage channel through the Wellton-Mohawk area, reconstruction of the existing Gila River pilot channel, construction of 12 new wells in the South Gila Valley, certain flood control works, and...
|
50 RELEASE OF COLORADO RIVER WATER [Immediate release, Mar. 16, 1962] THE WHITE HOUSE, OFFICE OF THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY. 1944 WATER TREATY WITH MEXICO The Presidents of the United States and Mexico are agreed that it is urgent to find a...
|
Airgram, Department of State: From AmConsul, Mexicali to Department of State, January 16, 1964 (photocopy)
1964-01-16
2006-09-01 |
IMCOMING TELEGRAM
Department of State
US mex waters
47
CONFIDENTIAL
Control: 121,5
Rec'd: SEPTEMBER 3, 1963
10:10 PK
Action
ARA
Info
SS
G
SP
L
H
CAP
SCI
E
AID
P
USIA
NSC
INR
CIA
NSA
AGR
INT
RMR
FROM:...
|
Best
3/17/63
Baja California Is Red Hotbed
By Ruben Salesar special to The Washington Fost From The Los Angeles Times
MEXICALI, Baja California, March 16-The Colorado River in recent months has brought a flow of left-wing extremists and...
|
April 20, 1962
Dear Mr. Secretary:
In connection with the salinity problem in the delivery of Colorado River water to Mexico, the Mexican Commissioner on the International Boundary and Water Commission has learned of a possibility of excess...
|
AIR MAIL
HANDLING INDICATOR
OFFICIAL USE ONLY
FOREIGN SERVICE DESPATCH
45
NO.
March 13, 1962
DATE
FROM: Amconsul TIJUANA
TO: THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE. WASHINGTON.
REF:
SUBJECT: Mexican Officials Refuse to Attend Dedication...
|
A 1962 statement by Joseph Jensen, the Chairman of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, which discusses the salinity issues of water delivered to Mexico from the Colorado River and proposes solutions through new transportation...
1962-02-20
|
Question Mo, 6, "Can the water Mexico is now receiving be diluted with well water in the Mexicali Valley so that the salinity will be tolerable for wheat?*1
toswers "Dilution well water of bett< concentration and \ Use of such water < hazard due...
2008-10-01
|
Within these constraints, the United States members of the Panel considered twenty possible solutions.
In order to evaluate many of these possible solutions, it was necessary to obtain a additional field date in the Wellton-Mohawk area. These...
|
6. The construction by the United States of works contemplated in this Minute is subject to the appropriation of funds by the United States Congress. Such appropriations will be sought as promptly as possible with the objective of having these...
|
-2-
periods, and this could not be explained to the Mexicali farmers as constituting a satisfactory solution to the problem.
Recalling that Ambassador Carrilo Florez has recently urged President Lopez Mateos to accept any solution recommended by...
|
time, it appears that construction of additional drainage facilities in our District, including wells, tile drains, and conveyance channels, combined with a selective and controlled pumping program, will provide a workable solution which will most...
|
-6-
Commissioner Dominy, and reviewed alternate plans for winter releases.
Commissioner Dominy appeared favorable to compromise plan to time sluices with Mexico's diversions since there were no material technical differences. He said he would...
|
Late Feb. 1962
WATER PROBLEMS
Delivery of Water to Mexico
Under the treaty of February 3, 1944, Mexico is allocated a guaranteed annual quantity of 1,500,000 acre-feet of the waters of the Colorado River from any and all sources. Each year...
|