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Central Arizona Project – Part 3

For our final post in this series, let’s take a look at Lake Havasu. Lake Havasu is a reservoir behind Parker Dam on the Colorado River on the border between California and Arizona, and has a capacity of 648,000 acre-ft (211 billion gallons of water). Parker Dam was constructed by the US Bureau of Reclamation […]

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Central Arizona Project – Part 2

In our last post on the Central Arizona Project, we covered the general construction of this 336-mile-long project, spanning over 20 years and 3.6 billion dollars. Today, we’ll take a look at two dams associated with the CAP; the New Waddell Dam, and the Theodore Roosevelt Dam.   Construction on the New Waddell Dam began in […]

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Central Arizona Project – Part 1

Today, we will begin a three-part series highlighting the largest aqueduct system in the United States, the Central Arizona Project. This project was created by the Colorado River Basin Project Act of 1968, signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson on September 30, 1968.   The Central Arizona Project (CAP) is a 336-mile diversion canal designed to deliver 1.5 million acre-feet (488,473,200,000 gallons) annually. […]

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