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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 ...
Map showing the All-American Canal (yellow). The All-American Canal was authorized along with Hoover Dam by the 1928 Boulder Canyon Project Act and built in the 1930s by the United States Bureau of Reclamation and Six Companies, Inc. [4] Its design and construction was supervised by the Bureau's then chief designing engineer, John L. Savage, and was completed in 1942.
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 ...
The Yuma Main Canal along with the East Main Canal and part of the West Main Canal were complete by 1912. The rest of the West Main Canal started again in 1913 and was completed in 1915. [1] Work on the Reservation Main Canal began in 1907 and its adjacent lateral canals began in 1908. The Mojave and Cocopah Canals were constructed as splits ...
A two-way residential frontage road (left) parallel to a busy major highway Freeflowing frontage road. A frontage road (also known as an access road, outer road, service road, feeder road, or parallel road) is a local road running parallel to a higher-speed, limited-access road. A frontage road is often used to provide access to private ...
Portions of these canal systems are literally "hung" on the edges of steep sided, gently sloping mesas formed from remnant Quaternary age bajadas. [4] The canals appear to be distinct from those found in the vicinity of Phoenix and elsewhere in the Southwest in that they obtained their water from mountain drainages fed by runoff, springs, and artesian sources, rather than from rivers.
This highway would be called the Tucson Controlled Access Highway. [16] Though it was a state highway, the initial construction cost was covered by the city of Tucson through passage of a city bond issue. [13] The new highway was to be signed as State Route 84 Alternate (or SR 84A for short). [17] [18] SR 84A began construction on December 27 ...
The Old Waddell Dam approximately halfway submerged under rising waters of the new reservoir, circa 1992. First referred to as the Frogs Tank Dam, the original Waddell Dam was the ambition of local businessmen who wanted to develop a project that used the Agua Fria for the irrigation of around 100,000 acres (40,000 ha) of land.