Silt Project Participating Project: Colorado River Storage Project

摘要

When one thinks of Reclamation one tends to think of the big projects. While this may be the common perception of Reclamation, it is not necessarily the correct one. The little projects Reclamation constructed, like the Silt Project, may not be more than a blip on most peoples mental map, but to the local water users they mean everything. The little projects promote and maintain the Jeffersonian ideal, that of the small family farmer with a plot of land to call his or her own, the foundation of the reasons for the creation of the Reclamation Service. Projects like Silt harken back to the roots of an organization that went on to build several of the engineering marvels of the twentieth century, including Hoover, Shasta, and Grand Coulee Dams.