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Theodore Roosevelt Dam is a dam on the Salt River located northeast of Phoenix, Arizona. The dam is 357 feet (109 m) high and forms Theodore Roosevelt Lake as it impounds the Salt River. Built between 1905 and 1911, the dam was renovated and expanded in 1989–1996.
The New Waddell Dam is 300 ft (91 m) high from the riverbed and 440 feet (130 m) high from its bedrock foundation. It is a zoned earth-fill type and is 4,700 ft (1,433 m) long; containing 16,200,000 cu yd (12,385,789 m 3) of material. The dam has a crest width of 35 feet (11 m) and a base width of 1,514 feet (461 m). [4]
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 ).
Davis Dam is a dam on the Colorado River about 70 miles (110 km) downstream from Hoover Dam. [1] It stretches across the border between Arizona and Nevada . Originally called Bullhead Dam, Davis Dam was renamed after Arthur Powell Davis , who was the director of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation from 1914 to 1923.
Completed in 1976, it is the last dam in both the Aspinall Unit and the Colorado River Storage Project to be completed, marking the final completion of the system as a whole. Crystal Dam forms the Crystal Reservoir and has the smallest capacity of the hydroelectric dams in the system, providing some 31,500 kilowatts capacity, or just over 1% of ...
U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Picacho Reservoir Dam Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. AZ-50-G, " San Carlos Irrigation Project, Picacho Reservoir, South of Gila River, Coolidge, Pinal County, AZ ", 3 photos, 91 photo caption pages
The dam is designed to be overtopped by major releases, which can occur every 10 to 40 years. The dam is 1,128 feet (344 m) long, 29 feet (8.8 m) high. Its volume is 35,000 cubic yards (27,000 m 3). [1] The United States Bureau of Reclamation built the dam between 1906 and 1908 to replace Arizona Dam washed out in 1905. [2]
The project began in 1903 and the majority of the work was completed by 1915. It was the first dam and reclamation project on the Colorado River and workers had to overcome many natural and logistical obstacles to build and maintain it. The Laguna Diversion Dam was replaced by the Imperial Dam as the Project's water source between 1941 and 1948 ...