WSP02047

• File Number: 8221.112.A
• Description: Central Arizona Project
• State: AZ
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 1/1/1991
• Title: Special Delivery to Tucson--A History and Overview of the CAP
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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Control room for the Tucson
Water Transmission System

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ing plants are necessary to raise the water
nearly 3,000 feet uphill from Lake Havasu
to the end of the CAP southwest of
Thcson.
All the facilities of the CAP are con-
trolled from a central computer system in
the project headquarters in Phoenix,
Water flow is regulated through the use of
radial-gated check structures located
about every seven miles in the system.
Water is diverted to water users through
gated turnouts at various points in the
system.
Pumping plants, check structures, and
turnouts in the CAP are operated elec-
trically using power from the Navajo Gen-
erating Station near Page, Arizona.
The first Central Arizona Project water
arrived in the Phoenix area in May of 1985
and since then more than 925,000 acre,
feet of water have been delivered to cen-
tral Arizona, CAP water will arrive in
Thcson in 1991. Thcson Water plans to
deliver CAP water to its customers by the
summer of 1992.

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Tucson Water

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proyecto en Phoenix. EI flujo del agua es
regulado a traves del uso de estructuras de
rejas radiales localizadas casi cada siete
millas en el sistema, La distribuci6n a los
usuarios es a traves de compuertas desvia-
doras en varios puntos del sistema,
Estaciones de bombeo, estructuras de
verificaci6n y desvios del CAP son ope-
raclas electricamente usando la fuerza de
la Estaci6n Generadora Navajo cerca de
Page, Arizona.

La primera agua del CAP lleg6 al area
de Phoenix en Mayo de 1985 y desde
entonces mas de 925,000 pies por acre han
sido entregados al Centro de Arizona, EI
agua de CAP llegara a Thcson en 1991, y
sera entregada a los consumidores en el
verano de 1992,