Roosevelt Dam

noun

1. a dam on the Salt River, in central Arizona. 284 feet (87 meters) high; 1,080 feet (329 meters) long.

Example Sentences

Construction began in 1903 on the Theodore Roosevelt Dam on the Salt River in Arizona, which Roosevelt himself dedicated in 1911.

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Her family moved to Arizona Territory a few years later and soon benefited from the first great reclamation project, Theodore Roosevelt Dam on the Salt River.

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On this date in 1914, it rained in Phoenix for 72 consecutive hours, causing the reservoir behind Roosevelt Dam to gain 40,000 acre-feet in one day.

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On this date in 1915, 70,000 persons witnessed as the battleship USS Arizona was launched at the New York Navy Yard, celebrating with a bottle of the first water to flow over Roosevelt Dam and champagne.

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At that point, the waters are controlled by Roosevelt Dam, forming Roosevelt Lake.

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