Orme Dam
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title:
Orme Dam
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Orme Dam was a proposed storage dam in the US state of Arizona. The United States Congress approved the Central Arizona Project (CAP) in 1968, which called for the construction of Orme Dam at the confluence of the Salt and Verde Rivers, 18 miles northeast of Phoenix. It would have flooded about 15,000 acres of the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation, half the Nation's total land area. Backers of the dam believed it was crucial to Arizona's economy. In 1977, US President Jimmy Carter recommended that Or
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Proposed dam in Maricopa County, Arizona
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orme_Dam
date created:
2021-06-27T18:57:51Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T04:51:26Z
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