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Roosevelt Dam, SRP and CAP shaped Phoenix's modern water network, volunteer training notes
Summary
In a recorded volunteer-training lesson, Laura Van Lyth traced Phoenix's water infrastructure from indigenous canals through the Salt River Project, Roosevelt Dam (1911), the Verde Water Treatment Plant (1949) and the Central Arizona Project (1980). She also discussed the doctrine of prior appropriation.
In a training session for Phoenix Water Wrangler volunteers, Laura Van Lyth, volunteer coordinator and water resource specialist for the City of Phoenix, reviewed the history of water infrastructure in the Salt River Valley and across Arizona. She said Indigenous Pima and Maricopa peoples "made the earliest canals" that provided the template for later systems, and that settlers arrived in the…
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