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Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Arizona. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3 ), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3 ).
Lee Valley Lake is Arizona's highest elevation reservoir, situated at 9,420 feet (2,870 m) in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests near Mount Baldy. It is located approximately 35 miles from Pinetop-Lakeside, connected by Arizona highways 260 and 273 and forest road 113. Access is restricted in the winter when roads are closed due to snow ...
San Carlos Lake was formed by the construction of the Coolidge Dam and is rimmed by 158 miles (254 km) of shoreline. The lake is located within the 3,000-square-mile (7,800 km 2) San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation, and is thus subject to tribal regulations. After it was built, the reservoir filled gradually.
At maximum elevation, its surface area is 12,040 acres (4,870 ha). The maximum conservation storage level of the reservoir is 1,702 feet (519 m) when the reservoir has a surface area of 9,970 acres (4,030 ha). Conservation storage for the reservoir is 812,100 acre-feet (1.0017 × 10 9 m 3) and minimum storage 40,500 acre-feet (50,000,000 m 3).
Location: Gila County, Arizona, United States: Coordinates: 1]: Type: reservoir: Primary inflows: Salt River, Tonto Creek: Catchment area: 5,830 sq mi (15,100 km 2): Basin countries: United States: Managing agency: Salt River Project: Max. length: 22.4 mi (36.0 km): Max. width: 2 mi (3.2 km): Surface area: 21,493 acres (8,698 ha): Max. depth: 349 ft (106 m): Water volume: 1,653,043 acre⋅ft ...
The lake can also be accessed via a dirt road to Sardine Point between the two arms of the lake, or by hiking to the upper ends of the two arms from SR 260. [2] Willow Springs Lake has no permanent inflow, but receives enough snow melt every year to keep the lake full. The Arizona Game and Fish Department holds sole water rights to the lake.
Glen Canyon Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the southwestern United States, located on the Colorado River in northern Arizona, near the city of Page.The 710-foot-high (220 m) dam was built by the Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) from 1956 to 1966 and forms Lake Powell, one of the largest man-made reservoirs in the U.S. with a capacity of more than 25 million acre-feet (31 km 3). [4]
Chevelon Canyon Lake is a small reservoir located in northern Arizona, about 28 mi (45 km) northwest of the town of Heber. [1] It is one in a series of small, canyon-bound lakes located on the Mogollon Rim , collectively referred to as the Rim Lakes.