Show engineers cannot stop the flow of colorado river detroit alch sept 23 disastrous results from irrigation in the imperial valley in southern california were predicted last night by george Y als ner of detroit nn engineer of national reputation and member ot the international waterways commission sir wisner was speaking before the detroit engineering society within twenty years thousands of people who have taken up government lands in the imperial valley will be driven out by water their homes and fields forming the bottom of an immense inland sea the cause of the coming phe is poor engineering in diverting the course of tho colorado river for irrigation purposes the river has cut into the banks of its new course to such an that nearly all of the colorado river flows down into the valley the engineers realize the danger but after many frantic efforts hac failed to change the rivers course back to its old bed not for 20 i ears will tha evalora ion down there be equal to the inflow into the valley by that time a million acres of the valley which is from 60 to feet below sea level will le by an inland sea |