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Salt River Project

Heavy winter snowpack prompting releases from Salt River Project reservoirs

SRP Snowpack survey sampling site in Happy Jack between Flagstaff and Payson. Photo Courtesy of Salt River Project

Published:March 9, 2023
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Persistent rainy, snowy skies altering many regions of the SW for the better this winter

Published:February 15, 2019
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Deeper Snowpack At Higher Levels Of Mountain Watersheds Improves Winter 2019 Outlook

Still young, Winter 2019 has a story to tell: There’s good cold, and there’s bad cold.

Published:January 31, 2019
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Protecting AZ’s surface water & maintaining healthy forests are, basically, the same thing

Published:October 25, 2018
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Valley cities find innovative ways to remake irrigation canals for multiple uses

For more than two generations, the hundreds of miles of irrigation canals lacing the Valley of the Sun have served a single, utilitarian purpose. They delivered water where it needed to go.

Operated by the Salt River Project on behalf of their water customers, the canals weren’t pretty, but they were functional.

Published:July 31, 2018
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Arizona Horizon: Update On Arizona's Water Supplies

Submitted by [email protected] on May 17, 2018 - 12:26pm
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C.C. Cragin Reservoir: Fire-threatened reservoir a marvel of water-storing technology

Sometimes, events come at you fast.

On Thursday, April 26, a senior water-rights analyst for Salt River Project, Sharon Morris, presented a scheduled tutorial on a unique reservoir in the pine country of northern Gila County for an assembly of Arizona Department of Water Resources employees.

Published:May 3, 2018
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Salt River Project Helicopter Tour

Submitted by [email protected] on March 3, 2017 - 8:23am
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A Water Wonderland

Strictly in terms of aesthetics, it is the perfect time to skim several hundred feet over Arizona’s oldest water-delivery system -- the two series of dams and reservoirs operated by the Salt River Project that provide the Valley with its largest supply of in-state surface water.

The air – sparkling and clear between February storms -- is satisfyingly crisp. The landscapes are verdant from the abundance of moisture unleashed this winter on Arizona’s mountainsides. It’s poised for a magnificent bloom of spring wildflowers that now is just a week or three away.

Published:March 1, 2017
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