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SRP operates canals running in a network through much of the southern half of the Phoenix metropolitan area that distributes water from the Salt River system. Major canals operated by SRP are: Arizona Canal, 38.62 miles (62.15 km) long; Grand Canal, 22.43 miles (36.10 km) long; Consolidated Canal, 18.95 miles (30.50 km) long
The canal, nearly 50 miles (80 km) long, is the northernmost canal in the Salt River Project's 131-mile (211 km) water distribution system. [2] Beginning at Granite Reef Diversion Dam , northeast of Mesa , it flows west across the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community , downtown Scottsdale , Phoenix's Arcadia and Sunnyslope neighborhoods ...
The Grand Canal is the oldest remaining pioneer canal on the north side of the Salt River. The canal was once lined with towering cottonwood trees and was a popular recreation spot for Phoenicians. [3] It was planned in 1877 and constructed in 1878 by the Grand Canal Company. [4]
Aerial view of the dam, river, and canals in 2018. The Granite Reef Diversion Dam is a concrete diversion dam located 22 miles (35 km) Northeast of Phoenix, Arizona. It impounds the Salt River for irrigation purposes. If it were to overflow, more than half of the Yavapai Reservation would be flooded.
By 1909, engineers of the Salt River Project (SRP), the operator of the canal system (originally the Salt River Valley Water Users' Association), decided to take over operation of the Arizona Falls power station and replace the generating equipment, increasing capacity by a third, to 700 hp. [12] The plant was completely rebuilt beginning in 1911.
It also has the largest storage capacity of the SRP lakes with the ability to store 1,653,043 acre-feet (2.039 km 3) of water when the conservation limit of Roosevelt Dam is reached. When the dam is in flood-control mode, the lake can store 2,910,200 acre⋅ft (3.590 km 3 ) of water; [ 2 ] [ 3 ] however, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ...
Evelyn Hallman Pond, at Evelyn Hallman Park (formerly Canal Park) is a small man-made lake located west of Scottsdale Road and south of McKellips Road in the northern part of Tempe, Arizona. Lying on the east side of the Cross Cut Canal (from where it gets its water) it must be reached from the east.
Mark Wilmer Pumping Plant. The CAP delivers Colorado River water, either directly or by exchange, into central and Southern Arizona.The project was envisioned to provide water to nearly one million acres (405,000 hectares) of irrigated agricultural land areas in Maricopa, Pinal, and Pima counties, as well as municipal water for several Arizona communities, including the metropolitan areas of ...