Colorado River Central Arizona Project
Reports, correspondence and publications primarily selected from the Senator Carl T. Hayden Papers regarding water allocations, engineering, politics, and litigation associated with the Central Arizona Project (CAP) and the Colorado River. A Congressman and then U.S. Senator from Arizona serving from 1912-1970, Hayden influenced natural resource development, water reclamation, and land-use management, culminating in 1968 with approval of funding for the CAP to transport Colorado River water to Phoenix and Tucson.
The Colorado River Central Arizona Project Collection is part of the Western Waters Digital Library (WWDL) which contains government reports, classic water literature, legal transcripts, water project records, personal papers, photographic collections, and video materials about the Columbia, Colorado, Platte, and Rio Grande river basins.
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- All Subjects: Central Arizona Project (U.S.)
- All Subjects: Dern, George Henry, 1872-1936 -- Correspondence
August 1, 1949.
Carl Hayden to [Arizona congressional delegation?], May 10, 1963. Re: Explanation of draft bill to authorize Central Arizona Project.
S1013: a bill to authorize the construction, operation and maintenance of the Central Arizona Project, Feb. 17, 1967.
Ernest McFarland to John J. Rhodes re: Bridge Canyon and Upper Basin Project bill, March 8, 1956.
Report on Feasibility Bridge Canyon Route Central Arizona Project, by E.A. Moritz, Bureau of Reclamation. Project Planning Report, No. 3-8b.4-1, February 1947.
"Arizona's Benefits From the Colorado River," by the Colorado Verde River Association, January 29, 1945.