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Engineering Feat: Hoover Dam One of the largest dams in the world, the hoover dam provides hydroelectric power thanks to the Colorado River and forms Lake Mead. This dam was completed in 1935 and has the world’s largest reservoir of water. This dam is an engineering feat due to its ability to control the Colorado River’s flooding problem, contain such high quantities of water, and provides water and electricity to Los Angeles and Southern California. This project also resulted in a new kind of…

1900’s, the U.S. bureau of Reclamation wanted to find a way to help develop the growing region in the southwest. They needed to find a way to provide water and power to the deserts of the Arizona and Nevada border. The plan was to dam the mighty colorado river near Boulder canyon. Due to water rights problems, multiple…

northern part of Arizona in the United States. It is among the biggest canyons and is basically a deep gorge or deep valley between hills or that which usually has a river that flows through it. The river which flows through the grand canyon is the colorado river. The Grand Canyon is about 277 miles long, 18 miles wide, and…

Grand Canyon Reflective Essay, Research, Sustainability The Grand Canyon is one the seven wonders of the natural world. Every year five million people from around the world visit the Grand Canyon to experience its incredible views and hike its trails (National Parks Service. U.S., 2017). Nearly two billion years of geological history is stored in the horizontal strata on the sides of the canyon. The Grand Canyon not only provides sweeping views, recreational trails, and a habitat for wildlife…

before it was even called Yuma. Before it was called Arizona City and it was used as a crossing for traded goods and produce. The shipments would cross from Arizona city to California across the Colorado. This however changed once they began building the irrigation systems in Yuma and controlling the Colorado river. Question 1: What challenges did the developers of the land in Yuma County have to overcome? As you would guess the early developers of Yuma County had many challenges to overcome.…

Lake George is an Endorheic lake, as it has no outflow of water to rivers and oceans. The lake is believed to be more than a million years old. Originally, small streams drained its catchment into the Yass River, but then the Lake George Escarpment rose due to major crustal movement along a strong fault line, blocking this drainage and forming the lake.[1] Lake George has in previous Ice Ages been much larger and deeper.[citation needed] The thickness of sediment beneath the lake exceeds 250…

Before the glittering lights of Las Vegas, there was a desolate wasteland of barren desert and flash floods that now houses the largest man-made lake in the United States as well as the 18th largest dam in the entire world. Back then, the Hoover Dam was the largest structure of its time, standing seven-hundred and twenty-six feet tall with, “Enough concrete to build a road from New York to San Francisco,” (National Park Service 1). Due to its unprecedented size and the minute section of time…

The beauty of the southwest knows no bound. The unique landscape is home to some of the most awe-inspiring mountains, cliffs, and valleys that I have seen in my life. My research and my adventures has a broad range that has a very subtle overlap. I will do the best to my ability to show you what I learned in my time in Utah and in the library. I decided to go to the Markgragunt gravity slide. Without knowledge of the exact whereabouts of the location and limited resources I saw this as an…

organization and mission. Northern Arizona University (NAU) is a public university that opened in 1899 as the Northern Arizona Normal School. In 1966, it became Northern Arizona University as it is known today. Located in Flagstaff, Arizona with a current enrollment of 30,368. NAU, a doctoral university with higher research activity, offers undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degrees across a number of disciplines. A unique quality of the university is the early exposure to collaborative…

Yuma/Southern Arizona? Irrigation in Yuma has evolved quite a lot, but before irrigation was evolving it was Yuma being evolved by irrigation. Before the help of irrigation, Yuma would often be flooded due to over rising waters that came from The Colorado. With the start of The Yuma Project, irrigation would be able to come into play. The Yuma Project would result with the construction of The Laguna Dam and various “networks of canals.”The dam would help keep the flooding to a minimum, though…