Granite Reef Diversion Dam (Site Name Keyword)
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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....
Historic American Engineering Record: Granite Reef Diversion Dam, Salt River, Mesa Vicinity, Maricopa County, Arizona (1998)
Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. AZ-51 presents a written historical summary and relevant historical documentation about the construction and use of Granite Reef Diversion Dam, which diverts Salt River water released from upstream storage dams into canal irrigation systems for agricultural, industrial, and municipal uses. The report contains a narrative description, photographs, drawings, and maps. The Granite Reef Diversion Dam is the principal structural mechanism by which...
Salt River Project Diversion and Conveyance System Historic District: National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form (2017)
The Salt River Project Diversion and Conveyance Historic District consists of nine main canals, the diversion dam that feeds water to those canals, and one hydropower plant situated on one of those canals. The contributing properties are: Granite Reef Diversion Dam (a structure); the Southside Gatekeeper’s house at the dam (a building); three canals serving land on the north side of the Salt River (the Arizona, Grand, and New Crosscut canals, all structures); six canals serving land on the south...
The Salt River Project, Arizona, a Federal Reclamation Project: National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Documentation Form (2017)
Pursuant to a 2009 Programmatic Agreement between the Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office, the Salt River Project, and the Arizona State Historic Preservation Office, the Bureau of Reclamation prepared documentation formally nominating the Salt River Project system of dams and main canals to the National Register of Historic Places (Register). The Salt River Project Multiple Property Submission (MPS) was formally accepted and listed on the Register on August 7, 2017. This is the Salt...