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Description SALINITY PROBLEMS-LOWER COLORADO RIVER 25 Since drainage from the Wellton-Mohawk Unit appears to be the principal cause of the current problem, a provisional salt balance computation was made for that area. It indicates that about 2.9 million acre-feet of Colorado River water was diverted to the Wellton-Mohawk Unit between the date of first diversion in 1952 and the end of July 1962. That 10 1/2 -year inflow carried in about 3.1 million tons of salt. The salt was carried out in small amounts... Epson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 24 bit, 10,662,912 bytes

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