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Originally Posted by montréaliste
Their " damning" (sic) the river, is that what brought on the drought?
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Originally Posted by PHX31
The damming of the Salt River to create the Tempe Town Lake about 20+ years ago was purely for development/recreation.
The Salt River was dammed much further upstream by the Roosevelt Dam in 1911. This was a major driver to the growth of central Arizona and the Phoenix area beginning 100 years ago.
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You might be on to something though, maybe someone did 'damn' i.e. curse the river and throw us into drought, haha. But no, the Salt/Verde river system is generally quite healthy, the
reservoirs are currently full and they are currently allowing runoff through the dams to make room for the big snowpack we got this year. It's the Colorado River system that's overtaxed and in more dire straits.