A dam on the Salt River located northeast of Phoenix, Arizona. The dam is 357 feet (109 m) high and forms Theodore Roosevelt
Lake as it impounds the Salt River. Originally built between 1905 and 1911, the dam was renovated and expanded in 1989-1996.
The dam is named after then-President Theodore Roosevelt.
Serving mainly for irrigation water supply and flood control, the dam also has a hydroelectric generating capacity of 36 megawatts
Dam! This it where my electric bill come from, I must call the (SRP) to tell them, why you have to charge us when you get the water for free dammit!
Captain! Also the history...One of the original five federal projects authorized on March 14, 1903, under the Newlands Reclamation Act of 1902,
Roosevelt Dam was the first major project to be completed under the new federal reclamation program.
This, the world's highest masonry dam, was started in 1906 and completed in 1911.
The beginning of federal production of electric power occurred at Roosevelt Dam when Congress, in 1906, authorized the Reclamation
Service to develop and sell hydroelectric power at the Salt River Project.
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