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| Posted 12/7/2010 Water Resources Research Center 12/7/2010A new program, called Conserve to Enhance, is now available to connect water conservation efforts to enhancing Tucson's desert environment. Tucson residents who choose to participate will install water conservation practices, track their water savings on their water bill, and donate the savings to benefit local enhancement projects. Donations will benefit enhancement projects along the Rillito River and Atturbury Wash located in Tucson, both of which have public access so you can see your dollars at work. Forty-five $500 subsidies are being offered to pilot participants that install water harvesting practices to reduce outdoor water use. This program is a collaboration of the Sonoran Institute, UA Water Resources Research Center, and Watershed Management Group and is overseen by a community advisory board. The Tucson Conserve to Enhance Program is piloting the Water Resources Research Center's program concept, Conserve to Enhance. Our research discovered the need for secure water supplies for riparian restoration projects and reviewed current efforts to link individual water users to environmental enhancement. The program concept applies a novel approach to an emerging problem, engaging individual water users in voluntary action toward a more sustainable water future where the environment is "at the table" as a water user. For more information and to apply, please visit http://watershedmg.org/c2e. The Tucson Conserve to Enhance pilot program will begin January 2011. You only have about two weeks left to sign up to participate in the C2E pilot program! The application will be open through Wednesday, December 22nd. If you have any questions contact: Posted 11/6/2010 Arizona Geological Survey 11.05.2010News Release: Geologic strip maps for Holocene alluvium of the Verde River tributaries of Central Arizona now available. PDFs available @ http://repository.azgs.az.gov Tucson, AZ. The Arizona Geological Survey (AZGS) just released ten new geologic map sheets showing the extent and age relationships of Holocene channel and floodplain deposits along tributaries of Verde River of north-central Arizona. A 43-page report accompanies the maps. Arizona's rivers are an integral part of the State's water resources. In an ongoing effort to understand these resources, the Arizona Department of Water Resources engaged AZGS to map Holocene-age deposits of the Verde River as part of the Gila River stream adjudication program. This work comprises over 370 miles of new and updated maps of the surficial geology of Verde River tributaries, including: Oak Creek, Wet Beaver Creek, West Clear Creek, Fossil Creek and the East Verde River. AZGS's mapping team constructed geologic strip maps of a two-mile wide swath centered on the river's active channel and running the length of the river. Geologic mapping was overlain on USGS 7.5 minute, 1:24,000-scale topographic maps. The team used earlier mapping, aerial photography, and extensive field work - establishing GPS stations on approximately one-mile centers along the course of the river - to map modern and recently active channel and floodplain deposits, river terraces and adjacent tributary deposits, eroded older basin deposits, and bedrock. The geologic maps provide foundational geologic data for deciphering the recent history of major tributaries of the Verde River watershed. Young Verde River sediments - those deposited over the past 10,000-years -- are subdivided by age and broadly grouped into two classes: channel deposits that comprise mostly sand and gravel; and, overbank floodplain and terrace deposits that consist of sand, silt, and clay with minor gravel. Stakeholders - water managers, civil authorities, ranchers, wildlife biologists, archeologists, environmentalists, and the Arizona public - should find these maps indispensible for physical and biological studies of the riparian corridor of these tributaries. The geologic maps and technical report are available in PDF format at repository.azgs.az.gov . Printed copies and the GIS data are available at the AZGS Map & Book Store at 416 W. Congress, Ste 100, Tucson, 85701. To order call 520-770-3500 or fax 520-770-3505. Contact:
Michael Conway Citation: Cook, J.P., Pearthree, P.A., Onken, J.A. and Bigio, E.R., 2010, Mapping of Holocene River Alluvium along Oak Creek, Wet Beaver Creek, West Clear Creek, Fossil Creek, and the East Verde River, Central Arizona. Arizona Geological Survey Digital Map DM-RM-3, 43 p., 10 map sheets, scale 1:24,000. NOTE: The Verde River tributaries report and maps are also available at the Arizona Department of Water Resources Mapping of Holocene River Alluvium along the Verde River, Central Arizona, as Phase II Summary Report and Phase II Geology Maps.
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