After dam repairs are finished, the now-empty Tempe Town Lake will be filled from water from Roosevelt Lake northeast of the Phoenix area.
The cost of refilling the 977-million-gallon Tempe Town Lake, which emptied after the dam burst July 20, will be just under $50,000.
That amount is based on the Salt River Project's water transportation charge of $16.77 per acre-foot. There is no charge for the actual water.
Because Tempe has joined in funding modifications to the Roosevelt Dam in the mid-1990s, the city now gets 5 percent of the water stored in the dam's additional capacity.
Three of the four bladders that make up Tempe Town Lake are set to be lowered into place Thursday morning, and the fourth bladder is set to arrive in October.
SethCold posted at 7:18 am on Wed, Aug 18, 2010.
What a waste!![sad]
ofuque2 posted at 8:56 am on Wed, Aug 18, 2010.
I can only hope when the water rationing starts that Tempe will have to reign in this stupid waste of water at the expense of the land developers that started the whole "lake" idea. With that much surface area and our high temps and direct sunlight, I'm just wondering how much water gets lost to evaporation each and every day. As our drought continues, I can only hope that all of our man-made "lakes" will be the first thing that gets cut. It was a bad idea 25 years ago and it is still a bad idea 25 years later.
Bingo6 posted at 11:18 am on Wed, Aug 18, 2010.
All the rich people and entitled spoiled college students will be very happy, happy again, along with all those empty corporate monstrosities along it's faux shore.