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- Title: Land V. Gonzalez
- Author : Arizona Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 27, 1963
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 61 KB
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On August 19, 1957, a cloudburst occurred in the vicinity of the Sand Tank Mountains south of the city of Gila Bend, Arizona. Water draining from this area flowed down Sand Tank Wash (designated Wash No. 2, on the accompanying diagram) and Washes No. 1 and No. 3 toward the Gila River, which runs north of the city of Gila Bend. Near the city of Gila Bend, Sand Tank Wash and Wash No. 1 intersect the Gila Bend Canal, a waterway system at that time owned by appellant Gillespie Land and Irrigation but since acquired by appellant Gila River Ranch. Since 1920 two structures have existed in the Gila Bend Canal for the purpose of conducting water flowing in Sand Tank Wash and Wash No. 1 across the canal and into the natural channels leading to the Gila River. At the intersection of Sand Tank Wash with the canal there is a "flume and inverse siphon", a combination structure one part of which (the inverse siphon) carries the waters of the canal under the bed of Sand Tank Wash, and another part of which (the flume) acts as artificial bed and banks of the wash to permit waters in the wash to flow over the waters of the canal. At the intersection of Wash No. 1 with the canal there is a "three barrel culvert" designed to carry the waters of this smaller wash under the bed of the canal. A shallow wash runs parallel to the canal between Wash No. 1 and Sand Tank Wash, and carries the overflow from Wash No. 1 to Sand Tank Wash at about the point it enters the flume over the canal. East of Wash No. 1 lies Wash No. 3 which drains into Wash No. 1 near the point where it enters the culvert.