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<br />t,.) <br />o <br />-1 <br />t..:. <br /> <br /> <br />Imperial Dam <br /> <br />27 million acre-feel of water and has a surface <br />area of more than 250 square miles. <br /> <br />During years at heavy runofllrom the .....inter.s <br />melting snowpack, peak flows measuring as <br />much as 140,000 cubic feel per second of <br />Colorado River waler run inlo Lake Powell. <br />Glen Canyon Dam's po.....erplant can generate <br />nearly a million kilowatts of E"Jectriclty. <br /> <br />Hoover Dam <br /> <br />Alter .....inding through the Grand Canyon, the <br />Colorado Rlver backs up behind l-IoO\:er Dam, <br />the grandaddy of all Colorado Ri\'er dams. The <br />greatest such struclure of its day (built in the <br />1930s), Hoover rises 726 feet above bedrock <br />and Is capable of producing 1.300,000 kilo.....alls <br />of eleclricity. Hoover Dam straddles the bor- <br />der between Nevada and Arizona. Hoover's <br />reservoir, Lake ME"ad. backs up lID miles be- <br />hind the dam and is the Western Hemisphere's <br />largest man-made reservoir. It is capable of <br />storing nearly 30 million acre-feet of water. <br /> <br />DadsDam <br /> <br />Davis Dam is localed about a mile north of <br />Bullhead City, Arizona, and Laughlin, Nevada, <br />and straddles Ihe border bet\\'een Nevada and <br />Arizona. Da\;s Dam .....as built primarily tor <br />regulation of Colorado River .....aler delivered <br /> <br />to Mexico, as required by the <br />Mexican Water Treaty. <br /> <br />lis reservoir, Lake Mohave. is <br />used for thai purpose Ihrough <br />the coordinated operalions of <br />the Hoover and Da\;s <br />powerplants. The Davis <br />po.....erplant, capable 01 produc- <br />ing 240,000 kilowatts of <br />electricity, teams with the <br />Hoover and Parker <br />powerplants to ser....e markets <br />in the southwest United States. <br /> <br />Capable of storing 1.8 million <br />acre-feet of water, Lake <br />~'lohave extends 67 miles <br />upstream when full. <br /> <br />Parker Dam <br /> <br />Parker Dam is located 88 miles <br />downstream from Da\;s Dam <br />and straddles the border be- <br />tween California and Arizona. <br />Parker Dam .....as designed and <br />constructed with funds ad. <br />vanced by the ~1etropolitan <br />Water District of Southern <br />California. <br /> <br />The Parker powerplant. Inter- <br />connected ....;th the Hoover and <br />Davis powerplants, can supply <br />120,000 kilowatts of energy. <br />The dam's 45-mile-long reser- <br />voir, Lake Ha\'a...u, Is capable <br />of storing 648,000 (\cre-feet of <br />water, <br /> <br />Just behind Parkt'r Dam in Lake <br />Havasu are the h(:ad.....orks of <br />two major waler diversion <br />canals: <br />t.> Located about nine miles <br />upstream of Parker Dam on <br />the California side of Lake <br />Havasu Is the \\'hiL~" In- <br />take Pumping Plant. It <br />diverts water from Lake <br />Havasu into the beginning <br />point of the Colorado RJwr <br />Aqueduct system. which <br />delivers water to the Los An- <br />geles and San Diego <br />metropolitan areas. <br />Do Located about two miles <br />upslream of Parker Dam on <br />the Arizona side of Lake <br />Havasu Is the Ha\'a.....u Pump- <br />Ing Plant. It diverts .....ater <br />from Lake Havasu into the <br />beginning point of the <br />