HAER No. AZ-51, Granite Reef Diversion Dam, Salt River, Mesa Vicinity, Maricopa County, Arizona: Written Historical and Descriptive Data, Photographs, and Reduced Copies of Drawings

Author(s): Tonia Woods Horton

Year: 1998

Summary

Located approximately thirty miles east of Phoenix, Arizona, adjacent to the city of Mesa, and three miles downstream from the confluence of the Salt and Verde Rivers, Granite Reef Diversion Dam is the principal diversion structure supplying water to the Salt River Project irrigation canals on either side of the Salt River. Although overshadowed in size by the Theodore Roosevelt Dam - the first structure of the Salt River Project proposed by the Department of the Interior's newly formed U.S. Reclamation Service - the construction of Granite Reef Diversion Dam was, in fact, a critical element in the overall concept of water storage and delivery. This report chronicles its design, construction, operations, and maintenance from its origins in 1905 to the present time.

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HAER No. AZ-51, Granite Reef Diversion Dam, Salt River, Mesa Vicinity, Maricopa County, Arizona: Written Historical and Descriptive Data, Photographs, and Reduced Copies of Drawings. Tonia Woods Horton. 1998 ( tDAR id: 439842) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8439842

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Keywords

Culture
Historic

Material
Building Materials

Site Name
Granite Reef Diversion Dam

Site Type
Agricultural or Herding • Dam • Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features • Water Control Feature

Investigation Types
Architectural Documentation • Heritage Management • Historic Background Research

General
Historic American Engineering Record • Salt River Project • SRP

Geographic Keywords
Arizona (State / Territory) • Maricopa (County) • Mesa, AZ • Salt River

Temporal Keywords
1900s • 20th Century

Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: 1906 to 1908 (Dates of construction)

Spatial Coverage

min long: -111.841; min lat: 33.473 ; max long: -111.638; max lat: 33.522 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Salt River Project Cultural Resource Manager

Prepared By(s): Salt River Project

Submitted To(s): National Park Service, Intermountain Region

Record Identifiers

Historic American Engineering Record No.(s): AZ-51

SRP Library Barcode No.(s): 00090784

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