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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 ...
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Florida.. 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).
The Salt River Project (SRP) encompasses two separate entities: the Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District, an agency of the state of Arizona that serves as an electrical utility for the Phoenix metropolitan area, and the Salt River Valley Water Users' Association, a utility cooperative that serves as the primary water provider for much of central Arizona.
Completed at a cost of $10 million, it was the largest masonry dam in the world for its time, and one of the tallest, surpassing the 135-foot Lake Hemet Dam with a height of 280 feet (84 m) and a length of 723 feet (216 m), while 1,600,000 acre-feet (2.0 km 3) Roosevelt Lake was for a time the world's largest artificial reservoir. The dam was ...
1 Suggested Edits: Blue Ridge Reservoir / C.C. Cragin Dam and Reservoir. ... 2.2 National Conference of State Legislatures. 2.3 Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce.
The dam forms Saguaro Lake as it slows the passage of the Salt River in Maricopa County, Arizona. It was named after a ranch that used to be located nearby known as the Old Stewart Ranch. A camp was built just below the dam in 1927 to house the construction workers; after the damn's completion it was turned into the Saguaro Lake Guest Ranch. [3]
Tempe Town Lake is an artificial perennial reservoir located just north of Tempe Butte at the confluence of the intermittent Salt River and the ephemeral Indian Bend Wash in Tempe, Arizona, United States. The reservoir receives most of its water from the Colorado River through the Central Arizona Project.
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 the 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 ...