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Surprise Lake is located in the City of Surprise, Arizona, United States, on the Surprise Recreation Campus in the north-west Valley, between Bell Road and Greenway on the east side of Bullard Avenue.
The Agua Fria River (Spanish for "cold water") is a 120-mile (190 km) long intermittent stream which flows generally south from 20 miles (32 km) east-northeast of Prescott in the U.S. state of Arizona. Prescott draws much of its municipal water supply from the upper Agua Fria watershed. [6] The Agua Fria runs through the Agua Fria National ...
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Arizona. 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 ).
This is a list of notable lakes and reservoirs located in the U.S. state of Arizona. Many of the lakes listed here contain game fish and are managed by the Arizona Game and Fish Department. Some may dry out or freeze out fish, and require seasonal restocking. Most lakes will not allow large motorboats.
Water from the New Waddell Dam reservoir augments supply in the CAP and helps deliver 15% more CAP water to Arizona. Water in Lake Pleasant is divided between the CAP (658,300 acre-feet (812,000,000 m 3)) and MWD (162,142 acre-feet (199,999,000 m 3)). Water from the CAP aqueduct is also drawn into Lake Pleasant via the New Waddell Pump ...
The Safe Drinking Water Act requires the US EPA to set standards for drinking water quality in public water systems (entities that provide water for human consumption to at least 25 people for at least 60 days a year). [3] Enforcement of the standards is mostly carried out by state health agencies. [4]
Arizona is also one of the Four Corners states and is diagonally adjacent to Colorado. Arizona has a total area of 113,998 square miles (295,253 km 2), making it the sixth largest U.S. state. [1] Of this area, just 0.3% consists of water, which makes Arizona the state with the second lowest percentage of water area (New Mexico is the lowest at ...
Bodies of water of Arizona (6 C) I. Water supply infrastructure in Arizona (1 C, 1 P) R. Reservoirs in Arizona (2 C, 76 P) T. Water transportation in Arizona (4 C) W.