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Beginning in 2021, Salt River Project (SRP) will replace substandard historic-age lattice tower structures along the 130-mile-long Eastern Mining Area (EMA) 115 kilovolt (kV) transmission system located on the Tonto National Forest and Tonto National Monument. The work is necessary to maintain reliability and safety of the EMA system and is being conducted to meet the requirements of the National Electrical Safety Code and the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), acting under...
The History of the SRP Canal System (2020)
Booklet gives a brief overview of the history of SRP and the canal system. "The Salt River Project (SRP) began as a partnership between the federal government and landowners in Central Arizona – a partnership that has allowed the area to flourish. When landowners formed the Salt River Valley Water Users’ Association (the Association) over a century ago, it signaled a turning point in the rise of Phoenix as a major Southwestern city. SRP became one of the nation’s first reclamation projects...
A Record of a Portion of the Yuma/California Main Canal and the Yuma Valley Railroad (2009)
The Yuma Irrigation Project (YIP) was an early and essential Reclamation project in the Southwest, and the Yuma/California Main Canal and the Yuma Valley Railroad were important contributors to the success of the YIP and the early development of Yuma, Arizona. Construction on the YIP began shortly after a new federal agency - United States Reclamation Service - had been given authority to reclaim arid and semi-arid lands in the West in 1902. In only a couple of decades, the YIP infrastructure...
Roosevelt Dam and Vicinity (1910)
Depicts the Roosevelt Dam and its vicinity with the locations of the steam power plant and shop, brick yard, bunk house, clay bins, camping grounds, mess tent, hospital, oil basin, limestone quarry, cement mill, line kiln, site of contractors camp, cottage's office, etc were located.
Salt River Valley, Arizona (1907)
A promotional pamphlet to entice people to move to "A Land of Sunshine, Health and Prosperity. A Soil Unsurpassed in Productiveness. A Country of Wonderful Opportunities." by the Commissioner of Immigration of Maricopa County. "For sometime the tide of immigration has been turned towards the great Southwest and in recent years, by reason of the possibilities and opportunities offered in mining, stock raising and agricultural pursuits, Arizona, which for so long a time was regarded as a desert...
The Story of SRP: Water, Power, and Community (2017)
This is, in the end, the story of those who call the Valley of the Sun home. From its earliest conception, SRP was created by—and for—the communities it serves. Over time, SRP’s water and power services have helped ensure the successful achievement of its original purpose: the economic development of the Valley and the region. When the Association was formed in 1903, the population of Maricopa County was barely twenty thousand. On his visit to the Valley just eight years later for the dedication...