Thursday, July 28, 2011

Water in the West- Central Arizona Project

The Central Arizona Project diverst 1.5 million acre feet from the Colorado River at Lake Havasu and directs in to Pima, Pinal, Maricopa counties and inclduing the Phoneix and Tuscon metropolitan areas.
The CAP was created by the Colorado River Basin Project Act of 1968 whihc was signed by President Lyndon. B Johnson. The Central Arizona Porject consists of 336 miles of aqueducts, tunnels, pumping plants and pipelines.

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