Salt River Project
Creators: name: Autobee, Robert
Publisher: name: Bureau of Reclamation
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Phoenix
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/126/phoenix
subject: Salt River
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/127/salt-river
subject: Salt River Valley
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/2784/salt-river-valley
subject: Gila River
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/3958/gila-river
subject: Maricopa (County)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/3900/maricopa-county
subject: Hohokam
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/21/hohokam
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/25/historic
subject: Canal or Canal Feature
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/275/canal-or-canal-feature
subject: Prehistoric Irrigation Systems
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/107598/prehistoric-irrigation-systems
subject: The Valley of the Sun
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/168877/the-valley-of-the-sun
subject: Roosevelt Dam
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/134131/roosevelt-dam
subject: Stewart Mountain Dam
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/151377/stewart-mountain-dam
subject: Granite Reef Diversion Dam
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/147506/granite-reef-diversion-dam
subject: Mormon Flat Dam
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/168727/mormon-flat-dam
subject: Horse Mesa Dam
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/168728/horse-mesa-dam
subject: Bartlett Dam
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/168725/bartlett-dam
subject: Horseshoe Dam
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/168726/horseshoe-dam
subject: Salt River Project
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/139554/salt-river-project
subject: Historic Setting
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/168871/historic-setting
subject: Project Authorization
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/168872/project-authorization
subject: Settlement of the Project
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/168875/settlement-of-the-project
subject: Uses of Project Water
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/168876/uses-of-project-water
subject: Construction History
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/168873/construction-history
subject: Post-Construction History
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/168874/post-construction-history

description: Humanity's resourcefulness inspired two attempts to draw life out of the desolation of Central Arizona's Salt River Valley over the past 1,500 years. Building over the remains of an irrigation culture left behind by lost Indian tribe, the Hohokam, federal and private engineers of the early 20th Century adapted much when the United States Reclamation Service completed first its major work, the Theodore Roosevelt Dam. The scale of Reclamation's plans separate the two efforts. The Roosevelt Dam was the Bureau's first multipurpose undertaking, designed for flood control, irrigation storage and Central Arizona's first hydroelectric power source. The dam stimulated area boosters to build Phoenix up from a desert outpost to the nation's ninth largest metropolis in less than a hundred years. Hailed as an engineering triumph at its completion in 1911, the preliminary result of the Salt River Valley project was the creation of an agricultural oasis. The project's ultimate consequence was the growth of one of the most urbanized areas in the United States anchored by a city whose name is synonymous with second chances – Phoenix.