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HAER No. AZ-56: Written Historical and Descriptive Data: Photographs, Reduced Copies of Drawings for the Eastern Canal, South of the Salt River, Mesa/Gilbert Vicinity, Maricopa County, Arizona (2000)
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The Eastern Canal—so-called because of its geographic location—sits at the eastern edge of the Salt River Project (SRP) in central Arizona. Originating near Lindsay and McDowell roads in northeast Mesa, the Eastern today stretches 14.65 miles south from its head in the South Canal. Built between March and December 1909, the canal provides irrigation water for lands lying between it and the Consolidated Canal to the west, and it also serves as a vital source of domestic water for the Town of...