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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 ...
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 ...
In 1928 Murphey bought a 7,000 acres (28 km 2) tract of land north of River Road between North Oracle Road and Sabino Canyon in a federal land auction. [2] Around the same time, Josias Joesler, a Swiss architect, was retained to implement John Murphey's vision. Residential development in the Catalina Foothills began in the 1930s, and Joesler ...
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 ...
Canal cross-sections vary from 0.30 to one meter, with atypical examples up to two meters in width, and 20 to 40 centimeters in depth. Their use seems to be primarily long distance water delivery to fields, but a few of these canals are bordered by prehistoric habitation sites and well-defined agricultural fields.
State Route 77 (SR 77) is a 253.93-mile (408.66-kilometre) long state highway in Arizona that traverses much of the state's length, stretching from its southern terminus at a junction with I-10 in Tucson to its northern terminus with BIA Route 6 at the Navajo Nation boundary just north of I-40.
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 ...
Motel El Corral, 2725 North Oracle Road, 1949; La Siesta Motel, 1602 North Oracle Road, 1941; Sun Land Motel, 465 West Miracle Mile, 1952; Thunderbird Lodge, 1941, architect: George J. Wolf; Terrace Mote, 631 West Miracle Mile, 1949; Tidelands Motor Inn (Sahara Motel), 919 North Stone Avenue, 1960; Tucson House, 1501 North Oracle Road, 1963 ...