• Parker Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam that crosses the Colorado River 155 miles (249 km) downstream of Hoover Dam.
  • Parker Dam waters form Lake Havasu which itself sits in California and Arizona.
  • Tensions came to a head around a decade later, in 1934, when construction began on the Parker Dam across the Colorado River.
  • Since 1941, the Colorado River Aqueduct has delivered water from Lake Havasu behind Parker Dam to the Los Angeles metropolitan area.
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  • He was angry because water stored behind Parker Dam was going to be pumped to cities in fast-growing southern California.
  • The 968-acre Parker Dam State Park offers old-fashioned charm and character.
  • Parker Dam is considered the "deepest dam" in the world with a structural height of 320 feet, of which only eighty-five feet extend above the river bed.
  • …construction began downstream on the Parker Dam. From Lake Havasu, the reservoir impounded by the dam, water is transported some 250 miles across...