Author : Kathleen Garcia
Release : 2009
Genre : History
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Roosevelt Dam - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Roosevelt Dam write by Kathleen Garcia. This book was released on 2009. Roosevelt Dam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At 5:48 p.m., on March 18, 1911, former president Theodore Roosevelt pushed the button allowing the first waters to be released from the world's highest masonry dam. The dam was one of the first projects authorized under the Newland Reclamation Act of 1902. The act provided federal money for state reclamation projects and established the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, which, between 1902 and 1907, began 30 projects within 11 western states. The confident promoters of the Roosevelt Dam began developing the project at the confluence of Tonto Creek and the Salt River five months before receiving formal approval by the newly established bureau in 1903. As a result of a 1992 expansion and renovation project, today's dam stands 357 feet high and bears little resemblance to the dam dedicated by Theodore Roosevelt.