Remember when it was still called "Tempe Town Lake?" Time flies. I miss when it was just a couple buildings also when A mountain was the star of the show.
@@heartland96a I don't know but I can definitely tell this lake has brought $2.5 Billion to Tempe because everyone wants to build buildings around it. They should expand it.
The benefits are and were purely commercial. Mesa and Tempe were becoming popular before the fake lake was in vented. My grandparents lived in Mesa and we lived in Phoenix. Do you know where the water comes from when there is little rain, as is normal. Check into evaporation vs. the amount of rain per year.
There were early plans that placed some commercial development but the floods of '80 and '93 prevented such folly. The inflatable dams were a good concept but I guess the sun had to burst that bubble.
The good thing about the Pacific Northwest is they have more water and no water problems like the Colorado river, lake mead and lake Powell going down.
No, clean your ears out! The measure PASSED in Tempe meaning the city wanted it. It was scaled down from the original plan and only built in Tempe city limits.
