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504:(109 m). Since the dam no longer had the integrity of the design, materials, workmanship, feeling, or association that it had when it was originally listed, the National Historic Landmark designation was withdrawn on March 10, 1999. The Theodore Roosevelt Dam National Register District contains other resources that are listed on the
484:, and its height was raised 77 feet (23 m) to 357 feet (109 m), which had the effect of increasing the storage capacity of Roosevelt Lake by roughly 20%. This project, which included three other major construction contracts associated with the dam, was completed in 1996 at a cost of $ 430 million. These included the realignment of
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Reclamation Service to develop and sell hydroelectric power at the Salt River Project. The dam was finished in 1911 after several devastating floods had interrupted the
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Maricopa County. He surveyed the Salt River for potential dam sites, and in July 1889 he, James McClintock, William J. Murphy, and John R. Norton set off on horseback to select one. A week in they reached Box Canyon, near the confluence of Tonto Creek and the Salt River and made
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Roosevelt Dam, as originally conceived and built, was a symbol of success and a showpiece for the new
Reclamation agency. The dam contributed more than any other dam in Arizona to the settlement of Central Arizona and to the development of large-scale irrigation there.
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1045:Historic American Engineering Record in Arizona
548:Roosevelt Dam shortly after completion in 1911
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819:SRP Water Operations: Theodore Roosevelt Dam
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763:. The Arizona Republican. March 19, 1911
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828:Theodore Roosevelt Dam, Power Plant
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225:196 ft (60 m)
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238:Spillway capacity
100:33.67167°N 111.16111°W
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631:"General Information"
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796:2016-11-25
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