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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 ).
A perched water table (or perched aquifer) is an aquifer that occurs above the regional water table. This occurs when there is an impermeable layer of rock or sediment ( aquiclude ) or relatively impermeable layer ( aquitard ) above the main water table/aquifer but below the land surface.
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 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 neighborhoods ...
Toggle the table of contents. ... USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of Arizona (1974) This page was last edited on 10 September 2024, at 01:10 (UTC). ...
More than a third of the Navajo Nation lacks running water. As the tribe nears a pact with Arizona over water rights, a California nonprofit looks to help.
The Big Sandy River flows year-round (perennial flow) south of the Signal Ghost Town site and intermittently above this site. [5] [6] In the period of 2007–2016, the surface water flow of the Big Sandy at the USGS monitoring site at the Signal Ghost Town ranged from a minimum of 22 US gallons (83 L) per second to a maximum output of nearly 524,000 US gallons (1,980,000 L) per second during ...
Less than 1 ⁄ 2 mile (0.80 km) from the national forest boundary, the Granite Reef Diversion Dam diverts all remaining water in the Salt River into the Arizona Canal and Southern Canal, which deliver drinking and irrigation water to much of the Phoenix metropolitan area. The dam and canals are part of the Salt River Project.
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 ...