Central Arizona Project canal. (Reclamation photograph)
CAP tunnel through Bucksin Mountain at the Lake Havasu intake channel. The tunnel is 22-feet in diameter and 7 miles long. (Reclamation photograph)
Tunnel boring machine used in the construction of the Central Arizona Project. (Reclamation photograph)
Agua Fria siphon inlet on the Central Arizona Project aqueduct. (Reclamation photograph)
Machine used to move pipe sections which were cast on site and then moved to the crane to be placed in the excavation. Pipe sections were 21-feet inside diameter, 22-feet long, and weighed 225 tons each. (Reclamation photograph)
Secretary of Interior James Watt watches as President Reagan signs the Reclamation Reform Act of 1982 into law. (Photo by Mary Anne Feckelman, The White House). Photo from The Reclamation Era, 1980. (Reclamation photograph)
Aerial view shows the contrast between irrigated citrus groves and desert near Yuma, Arizona. Photo from The Reclamation Era, 1980. (Reclamation photograph)
Larry D. Morton. Deputy Area Manager. (Reclamation photograph)
Roosevelt Dam, circa 1911. (Reclamation photograph)
Theodore Roosevelt Dam under construction in the 1980s. (Reclamation photograph)
Modified Theodore Roosevelt Dam, 1996. (Reclamation photograph)
Construction of New Waddell Dam. Pump generating plant is to the left and the old Waddell Dam can be seen behind the new construction. (Reclamation photograph)
Map showing the proposed location of Cliff Dam, between Horseshoe Dam and Bartlett Dam on the Verde River. This dam was removed from consideration by Plan 6. (Reclamation photograph) 
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The first water delivered from the Central Arizona Project's Hayden-Rhodes Aqueduct, reaches crops growing in the Harquahala Valley Irrigation District, west of Phoenix, Ariz. Photo courtesy of HVID.
Celebrating the turn-out of water from the Central Arizona Project aqueduct into Harquahala Valley Irrigation District's canal system – first delivery via the CAP for beneficial use in an irrigation system, May 22, 1985. Photo courtesy of HVID.
Article from the May 20, 1971, Arizona Republic newspaper.
Aerial view of the Central Arizona Project's Hayden-Rhodes aqueduct delivering first water to the Harquahala Valley Irrigation District, May 22, 1985. Photo courtesy of HVID. 
Signing of the first CAP water delivery subcontract between the Harquahala Valley Irrigation District (HVID), the Central Arizona Water Conservation District (CAWCD) and the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) was a milestone event in project history.
Seated, left to right – Burr Sutter, CAWCD Counsel; Dale Shumway, CAWCD Board President; Bill Plummer, Regional Director, Reclamation; Lynn Sharpe, CAWCD Secretary.
Standing, left to right – Dess Chappelear, Asst. Project Manager, Arizona Projects Office, Reclamation; Tom Koenekamp, Franzoy, Corey & Associates; Frank Rogers, President, HVID; Jack Williams, CAWCD Board; Fred Corey, Franzoy, Corey, and Assoc.; W. T. Gladden, HVID Board Director; LeGrande Neilson, Reclamation, Contracts and Repayment; Bob Farrer, Vice President, Franzoy, Corey & Assoc.; Jim Green, HVID Counsel; Harry Porterfield, HVID Secretary.
Photo courtesy of HVID.
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