Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 Pantano River Park was the last piece in the continuous circuit of trails around the city of Tucson to be completed. It now runs from the Rillito trail at Craycroft Road, south-south-east to the Harrison Greenway connection at Sellarole Road. [8] Looking north along the Harrison Greenway
Bidding took place on the $16.5 million (about $95 million in 2023 dollars) [43] La Posta Road to Crestwood Road and the Japatul Valley Road to Sunrise Highway portions in November 1971. [113] As part of this series of projects, the highest concrete bridge in the state at the time was to be built at 430 ft (130 m) over Pine Valley Creek on the ...