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Maria Cerda, senior procurement contract administrator, checks a large shipment of backup batteries that are scheduled to be sent out to turnouts along the system. Turnouts are

Salt Gila Pumping Plant, the sixth plant in the CAP system, has 10 pumps that lift water 75 feet on its journey from Lake Havasu

Headquarters Maintenance electrician Chris Beloit was manually switching a 3000-Amp Pringle switch on SES-2, a procedure that is necessary when shedding and restoring load in a planned

Central Arizona Project bisects the state so it’s not surprising that bridges have been constructed in some places along the 336-mile system so people, traffic

New Waddell Dam is an earthen fill dam that is nearly 5,000 feet long and forms Lake Pleasant, CAP’s largest reservoir. The lake serves two

Mark Wilmer Pumping Plant is the first and largest plant in the CAP system, with six 66,000-horsepower pumps that lift the water more than 800 vertical

Aron Carrozza, shop mechanic, replaces intake manifold gaskets in one of CAP’s fleet vehicles. Carrozza, part of the 11-person Fleet Maintenance Department, had to remove

Safety is a priority at CAP, which includes ensuring we have safety equipment that best fits our needs. For many years, we have had a

The forebay of Salt Gila Pumping Plant was drained to facilitate sediment cleanout as part of the Salt River Siphon outage. Once the forebay was dry, a