The Horse Mesa Dam is a concrete thin arch dam located Northeast of Phoenix, Arizona. The dam is 660 feet (200 m) long, 300 feet (91 m) high and was built between 1924-27. The dam includes three conventional hydroelectric generating units totaling 32 megawatts (MW) and a pumped-storage unit with a capacity of 97 MW. The dam forms Apache Lake as it slows the passage of the Salt River. It is located downstream from the Theodore Roosevelt Dam and upstream of Mormon Flat Dam.
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