Arizona’s Water and Power Plan Early History of the Valley and SRP Reclamation Act and the Association: 1902/03 Unification and the Salt River Valley Water Users’ Association Roosevelt Dam construction, stiff legged derrick, 1910
Theodore Roosevelt Dam: 1906−1911 Verde River
East Clear Creek
Horseshoe Dam (1946) Roosevelt Dam (1911)
C.C. Cragin Dam (1965)
Horse Mesa Dam (1927) Bartlett Dam (1939)
SRP Mormon Flat Dam (1925) Reservoir System Salt River Stewart Mtn Dam (1930) SRP/CAP Interconnect, c. 1991
Theodore Roosevelt Dam, c. 1996
Reclamation & SRP Projects Continue Boulder Canyon Project
• Irrigation more than 2 million acres of land in southern California and southwestern Arizona, and over 400,000 acres in Mexico • Municipal & Industrial Water 20 million people in Arizona , Nevada, and Southern California rely on municipal, industrial, and domestic uses • Reliable, Renewable, Valuable Hydro Power Resource SRP has been utilizing Hoover power since the early 1950’s Along with other AZ entities, supported and committed to the resource when it wasn’t the cheapest SRP continues to purchase the Hoover Dynamic Signal and provides valuable energy banking benefits to APA customers
SRP and its 2 million customers rely upon both the water and power from the BCP. SRP has built electric and water systems, maintains those systems, and has spent millions of dollars enhancing the reliability of these systems to ensure delivery of both BCP water and power to Arizona. Camelback Mountain, 1947
Camelback Mountain, 1965
Water and Power = Sustainable Economic Development Camelback Mountain, 1996 Salt and Verde Rivers 800,782
Groundwater Other 8,529 CAP 52,674 2011 10,304
Groundwater 1,200 CAP/Other
1,000 Salt and Verde Rivers 800
600 Acre Feet Acre 400
200
0 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
SRP Water Sources and Supply Balance Total Deliveries 872,290
System Demands Shareholders 105,605 Power Plants 182,315 12.11% 2,934 20.90% On-Project Deliveries .34% 509,603
Contracts Tempe Tolleson Agricultural Scottsdale 177,973 39,774 3,688 87,246 8,498 20.40% 7.80% .72% 17.12% Municipal 1.67% 337,693 Subdivision 38.71% 58,911 11.56% Exchange Phoenix 53,918 152,106 6.18% Underground Storage 29.85% 11,852 1.36% Other Urban 39,062 7.67% Peoria Avondale 4,436 10,052 Mesa .87% 1.97% 36,106 Glendale Gilbert Chandler 7.09% 18,724 31,098 3.67% 19,872 3.90% 6.10%
SRP Water Deliveries by Sector 4,500,000
4,000,000
3,500,000
3,000,000 Feet)
- 2,500,000
2,000,000 Volume Volume (Acre
1,500,000
1,000,000
500,000
0
Salt + Tonto + Verde Inflow Total Deliveries
Creating Dependability from Variability 250,000
200,000
150,000
100,000
50,000
0 1958 1961 1964 1967 1970 1973 1976 1979 1982 1985 1988 1991 1994 1997 2000 2003 2006 2009
AG Urban
Urbanization of Association Lands Salt River Project Power Service Area ≈168 miles
Future Supplies: Bi-national Desalination? Reclamation Heritage Remains Water and Power: Layered. Connected. Unique.