Episode 212: The Florence-Casa Grande Project

Sacaton Dam Bridge (Source: State of Arizona Historical Bridge Inventory)

Throughout the 1910s, Carl Hayden and others failed to get their storage dam on the Gila River. However, in the early 1920s they were able get a smaller reclamation project approved. Too bad it would do little, if anything, to help the water-strapped Maricopa and O’odham living on the Pima Reservation.