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Salt River Project

Type	Association: Utility cooperative District: Government-owned corporation
Manufacture	Public utility
Founded	February 7, 1903
Headquarters	Tempe, Arizona, Us
Products	Electricity H2o
Revenue	US$2.98 billion (2014)^[1]
Operating income	U.s.$96 million (2014)^[ane]
Cyberspace income	U.s.a.$212 million (2014)^[one]
Number of employees	5,123 (2014)^[1]
Website	www.srpnet.com

The Salt River Project (SRP) is the umbrella name for ii separate entities: the Salt River Project Agricultural Comeback and Ability District, an agency of the state of Arizona that serves as an electrical utility for the Phoenix metropolitan area, and the Salt River Valley Water Users' Clan, a utility cooperative that serves as the master water provider for much of central Arizona. It is 1 of the primary public utility companies in Arizona.

The name, Rio Salado Project – "Rio Salado" is Spanish for "Salt River" – used to refer to the improvement projects forth the Common salt River through the Phoenix Metropolitan Area, is not related to SRP.

Service territory [edit]

SRP serves well-nigh all of the Phoenix metropolitan area. A large portion of its electrical service territory is shared with Arizona Public Service.

Governance [edit]

Each company of SRP is governed separately.

For the Association, landowners elect a president, a vice president, a x-member lath of governors and xxx council members.

For the District, landowners elect a president, a vice president, a fourteen-member lath of directors and 30 quango members.

The officials of each organization are elected on the beginning Tuesday in Apr of even-numbered years. The concluding scheduled Clan and District elections were held on April 7, 2020. Both are elected by all landowners in the SRP service area through a "debt-proportionate" system. For case, a person who owns five acres casts 5 votes.

History [edit]

Early on settlers in Phoenix and nearby areas were forced to rely on the menses of the Salt River to sustain agricultural activities. The river was decumbent to both floods and droughts and proved to be a less than reliable resource for the settlers. Failed plans to build a dam on the river in 1897,^[2] combined with a series of droughts, heightened the demand for controlling the river.

With the passage of the National Reclamation Human activity of 1902, funding for reclamation projects with low-interest government loans paved the style for the creation of the Table salt River Valley H2o Users' Association the post-obit year. Over 200,000 acres (81,000 ha) of private state belonging to the ranchers and farmers in the association were pledged for collateral and the association was officially incorporated February 7, 1903, becoming the first multipurpose projection started nether the reclamation act.^[three] Following on March xiv, 1903, this project was one of the first v reclamation projects approved, under the Deed, by the Secretarial assistant of the Interior.^[four] Construction on the Roosevelt Dam would commence the post-obit year.

The original Roosevelt Dam, completed in 1911, was the highest masonry dam ever built. In 1996, information technology was upgraded by encasing the original structure in new physical (shown).

Although the construction of dams was the association's most visible and costly project, an integral function of the endeavour was too the structure and improvement of a arrangement of canals designed to distribute the water from the Salt River among the diverse members living in the valley.

Hydroelectricity was produced at the dam site during construction, and used for the manufacture of cement and other purposes. In 1906 (before the dam was completed) electricity began to exist produced from a hydroelectric generator within the dam. Almost all of the electricity non needed for agriculture, including the bulk of that used in Phoenix, was sold to PG&Due east under an agreement that prohibited the United States Bureau of Reclamation from selling retail electricity within the urban center.^[v]

In 1936, the Arizona Legislature allowed for the cosmos of governmental districts that could finance large-scale agricultural projects with tax-free bonds.^[6] Shortly thereafter, the Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District was created, the 2nd one-half of SRP as it exists today. Over the side by side several decades, a series of major improvements forth the Salt and Verde rivers would heighten the number of reservoirs in the district to half dozen, and at the same time SRP was constructing and maintaining a number of other electrical generating stations throughout the state.

As of 2007, SRP owns or operates eleven electrical generating stations, seven hydroelectric plants, and has energy purchasing agreements with 4 major hydroelectric stations along the Colorado River, making them a major provider of electrical service in the Phoenix area. Along with the six reservoirs forth the Table salt and Verde rivers, SRP operates dams at the Bluish Ridge Reservoir as well as the Granite Reef Diversion Dam and a number of canals, making the SRP a major provider of h2o to the Phoenix area.

Salt River reservoirs [edit]

SRP owns and operates four reservoirs along the Common salt River east of Phoenix. The main function of these reservoirs is to serve as water storage for the Phoenix metropolitan area, with a full capacity of 3,292,054 acre feet.

These reservoirs besides serve as of import recreational centers. The lakes are regularly stocked with fish, and are supplied with boat ramps for both angling and other watersports.

Theodore Roosevelt Lake [edit]

Dedication ceremonies of Roosevelt Dam (Arizona Territory), Col. Roosevelt speaking, March xviii, 1911.

Theodore Roosevelt Dam and the Roosevelt Lake it forms are considered perhaps the crowning achievements of SRP. With the initial funds raised by the clan in 1903, an ambitious project was begun several miles east of Phoenix in the Tonto Valley, at the confluence of the Tonto Creek and the Salt River. When it was completed in 1911, Roosevelt Dam was the tallest masonry dam in the globe at 280 feet (85 one thousand).^[7] It was dedicated by U.Due south. President Theodore Roosevelt, for whom the dam and the reservoir are named.^[8]

In 1996, a massive expansion project aimed at increasing the capacity of the lake was finished. The dam was resurfaced with concrete and raised an additional 77 feet (23 m), which had the outcome of increasing the lake'south chapters by over twenty%, and providing much needed overflowing control space on the Salt River. Shortly after completion, however, the area entered into a prolonged period of drought, and it would be some time before the new capacity was used, with the lake finally reaching historic levels of 90% chapters in early 2005.^[9]

With an at-capacity expanse of nearly 21,500 acres (viii,700 ha), Roosevelt is the largest lake that is wholly inside the state of Arizona. Information technology can store 2,910,200 acre-feet (three.5897×ten⁹ one thousand^three) of water at capacity.^[10]

Apache Lake [edit]

Horse Mesa Dam and Apache Lake

Apache Lake was formed past the construction of the Horse Mesa Dam, finished in 1927. Several miles downstream from Roosevelt, the dam stands 300 feet (91 k) high. The lake itself is considerably smaller than Roosevelt at only 2,600 acres (one,100 ha) of surface area at full capacity, and tin store 254,138 acre-feet (313,475,000 one thousand³) of water.^[eleven]

Similar the residue of the Salt River lakes downstream from Roosevelt, Apache Lake is long and narrow, filling the bottom of the canyon it resides in. Information technology does have a hydroelectric generating station.

Coulee Lake [edit]

Coulee Lake, the third lake on the Salt River, is created by the Mormon Flat Dam. The dam was completed in 1925, existence the second of the dams to be completed. The dam is named for a nearby geographical feature, a flat campground where Mormon pioneers from Utah would often cease on their journey to the Phoenix surface area. Downstream from Apache Lake, it is considerably smaller with just 950 acres (380 ha) of surface expanse when total, property 57,852 acre-feet (71,359,000 k³). Like the other Salt River dams, it is equipped with hydroelectric generators.^[12]

Saguaro Lake [edit]

Stewart Mountain Dam and Saguaro Lake

Saguaro Lake is formed by the Stewart Mount Dam, downstream from Coulee Lake. Completed in 1930, it was the last of the reservoirs to be built on the Common salt River. It is somewhat larger than Canyon but smaller than the others, having a surface expanse of 1,280 acres (520 ha) when full, holding 69,765 acre-feet (86,054,000 m^three). The dam is equipped with hydroelectric generators.^[13]

Verde River reservoirs and other dams [edit]

Afterwards completion of the four dams on the Salt River, SRP turned to the smaller Verde River for further expansion of the project. Like the reservoirs on the Table salt, the Verde reservoirs are used for recreational purposes likewise as water storage and flood control.

Bartlett Lake [edit]

The outset of the lakes on the Verde River was created with the structure of the Bartlett Dam, finishing in 1939. At 308.5 feet (94 grand) tall, the multiple-arch dam is lacking in hydroelectric generating capabilities, unlike most dams on the Salt River. Bartlett Lake, with ii,700 acres (i,100 ha) of surface area at capacity, is larger than all the Salt River reservoirs save Roosevelt. When full the lake tin can hold 178,186 acre-feet (219,789,000 chiliad³) of water.

Horseshoe Lake [edit]

Horseshoe Lake is formed by Horseshoe Dam and was finished in 1946, upstream from Lake Bartlett. Different the other dams congenital to this point, the construction was done by the Phelps Contrivance Corporation as part of a water exchange agreement. In 1949, the metropolis of Phoenix funded the construction of spillway gates for the dam in exchange for water rights for urban center users. Like Bartlett, this dam does not have hydroelectric generating capabilities. At 2,800 acres (1,100 ha) in surface area when full it is slightly larger than Bartlett but has a smaller total chapters, holding only 131,427 acre-feet (162,113,000 grand³) at maximum.

C.C. Cragin Dam and Reservoir [edit]

Phelps Contrivance, Inc., a large mining visitor in Arizona, synthetic the Blue Ridge Dam (at present named C.C. Cragin) in 1965 to help meet its water needs. A h2o exchange agreement penned iii years earlier promised the facilities to SRP, and in 2005 SRP took possession of the dam and water product facilities. Located on the Mogollon Rim, C.C. Cragin is non on the Common salt or Verde rivers simply is a part of the general watershed covered in the SRP area. The small lake has a storage capacity of only fifteen,000 acre-feet (xix,000,000 m³) of water and is used to augment the water supply for the Gila River Indian Customs, northern Gila County and the boondocks of Payson.

Granite Reef Dam [edit]

The Granite Reef Diversion Dam, synthetic near the confluence of the Salt and Verde rivers, does not actually concur dorsum a reservoir just is used to divert h2o from those rivers into the system of canals feeding into the Phoenix surface area. It was actually the first of the dams constructed, finished in 1906 to supervene upon the Arizona Dam, which had been washed away past floods the previous year.

Culvert arrangement [edit]

SRP operates several important canals that run in a network through much of the southern half of the Phoenix metropolitan area, helping distribute water from the Salt River system. Major canals operated past SRP are:

Arizona Culvert, 38.62 miles (62.15 km) long
K Culvert, 22.43 miles (36.10 km) long
Consolidated Canal, 18.95 miles (30.50 km) long
Eastern Canal, 14.73 miles (23.71 km) long
Western Canal, thirteen.61 miles (21.90 km) long
South Canal, 9.91 miles (15.95 km) long
Tempe Canal, 9.76 miles (15.71 km) long
New Crosscut Canal, iii.4 miles (5.5 km) long

SRP also operates a number of inundation control canals throughout the Phoenix area.

Power generation [edit]

As well the ability generated at several of the dams along the Salt River, SRP owns or operates, in part, several power generating stations throughout the country:

Agua Fria Generating Station
Coolidge Generating Station
Coronado Generating Station
Craig Generating Station
Desert Basin Generating Station
Four Corners Generating Station (owns 10%, operated past Arizona Public Service)
Gila River Generating Station
Hayden Generating Station
Kyrene Generating Station
Mesquite Generating Station
Navajo Generating Station (owns 42.9%). Commercial generation ceased November 2019.
Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station (owns 17.five%, operated by Arizona Public Service)
Santan Generating Station
Arizona Falls

Membership in organizations [edit]

Public Affairs Council [edit]

Renee Eastman, representing Salt River Project, is on the 2013-2014 Board of Directors for the Public Affairs Council (PAC).^[14] ^[15]

National Conference of Land Legislatures [edit]

Common salt River Projection is a Gold Sponsor for the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL).^[sixteen]

Greater Phoenix Sleeping room of Commerce [edit]

Peter Hayes, an Associate General Manager at SRP, is on the Lath of Directors of the Greater Phoenix Sleeping accommodation of Commerce (GPCC).^[17]

Common salt River Project has been a member of the Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce (GPCC) since 1940.^[xviii]

Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry [edit]

Molly Greene, is on the Board of Directors of the Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry serving as the Chair of Public Affairs Committee.^[19]

Salt River Project is an "Arizona Trustee" member of the Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry.^[20]

Greater Phoenix Urban League [edit]

Russell Smoldon, representing Salt River Project, is on the Lath of Directors for the Greater Phoenix Urban League^[21]

Electric Power Enquiry Institute [edit]

Salt River Project is a member of the Electric Ability Inquiry Institute (EPRI).^[22]

Large Public Power Council [edit]

Common salt River Projection is a fellow member of the Large Public Power Council (LPPC).^[23]

American Public Power Clan [edit]

Salt River Project is a member of the American Public Ability Association (APPA).^[24]

Labor and Direction Public Affairs Committee [edit]

Salt River Project is a member of the Labor and Direction Public Affairs Committee (LAMPAC), a utility labor organization.^[25]

Democratic Attorneys General Clan [edit]

Salt River Projection sponsored programming on the order of $15,000 between 2006 and 2009 to the Democratic Attorneys General Clan.^[26]

Western Governors Association [edit]

Salt River Project took part in several energy-related initiatives for and through the Western Governors Clan (WGA).^[27]

Quango of Land Governments [edit]

Salt River Projection is a member of the Assembly plan of the Quango of State Governments (CSG).^[28]

American Legislative Exchange Council [edit]

Russell Smolden, representing Salt River Project, sits on the Private Enterprise Board of the American Legislative Exchange Quango (ALEC).^[29]

References [edit]

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^ Earl A. Zarbin (1984). Roosevelt Dam: A History to 1911 (PDF) . Retrieved 2012-01-11 .
^ Allen, Lee (9 June 2005). "Roosevelt Lake Renewed". Tucson Weekly. Archived from the original on 2011-06-29.
^ "Theodore Roosevelt Dam". Bureau of Reclamation. Archived from the original on 2011-06-14.
^ "Horse Mesa Dam". Bureau of Reclamation.
^ "Mormon Flat Dam". Bureau of Reclamation. Archived from the original on 2010-03-18.
^ "Stewart Mountain Dam". Bureau of Reclamation.
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^ Annotation: Eastman was also on the PAC board in the 2011-2012 term
^ "NCSL Foundation for State Legislatures | Sponsor List". world wide web.ncsl.org.
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^ "Molly Greene". Retrieved 2021-04-22 .
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^ "Democratic Attorneys General Association, Inc. - Political 527 Grouping, Democratic Attorneys General Association, Inc". www.campaignmoney.com.
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External links [edit]

"Roosevelt Dam and the Dusk Route Limited". Archived from the original on November 22, 2007. Retrieved July 27, 2007.
SRP official site
"History of the Salt River Project". Archived from the original on May 25, 2011. Retrieved December 30, 2006. {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL condition unknown (link)

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_River_Project