July 15, 2024

The CAP system is operated by the control center, the “invisible hands in the desert”

Invisible hands in the desert: How one room operates CAP

CAP Water Control Dispatcher Miguel Ayala steps in front of an array of screens and graphs and checks a log of day-ahead water delivery orders. The overnight monsoon thunderstorms had given way to a morning of dark, overcast skies. Inside the CAP Control Center that remotely operates the entire 336-mile

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