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The cornerstone of the park is the 10,000-acre (16 sq mi; 40 km 2), Lake Pleasant, one of the important artificial reservoirs surrounding the Phoenix metropolitan area. Created by the Maricopa Water District's Carl Pleasant Dam, which was finished in 1927, and upon completion, was the largest multi-arch dam in the world.
It was this firm that organized the private financing for construction of the dam for the water reclamation project that creates Lake Pleasant. [2] The intended Waddell town site was laid out by Donald W. Waddell in 1935, on property he owned on the northeast corner of Waddell Road and Cotton Lane (Section 12, T3N, R2W, G&SRB&M). [ 3 ]
It serves Lake Pleasant Regional Park and serves as a northern bypass around the often congested stretches of US 60 through the northwest suburbs of the Phoenix metropolitan area. From end to end, it is 30.4 miles (48.9 km) long. The Carefree Highway is the inspiration for the 1974 Gordon Lightfoot song of the same name. [2]
The Agua Fria river runs right through the center of Black Canyon City and the river empties into Lake Pleasant to the southwest. Black Canyon City is becoming a bedroom exurb of Phoenix with the continued rapid growth of Phoenix northward. [citation needed] The assessed value of Black Canyon City property more than doubled between 2000 and ...
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.
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The water area is due to Lake Pleasant, a reservoir on the Agua Fria River in the northern part of the city, annexed by Peoria in 1996. [18] The Agua Fria River and New River are the only rivers that flow through Peoria. The Agua Fria River is usually dry due to the New Waddell Dam that holds back Lake Pleasant in the northern end of the city.
Pleasant Valley Airport (ICAO: P48) was a privately owned public-use airport located in Peoria, in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States. [1] The airport long since serviced small aircraft into the Lake Pleasant Regional Park area, however, in 2022 it was closed due to the lease for the land (on state Trust Land) not being renewed.