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Sediment Transport in the Colorado River and All-American Canal system at Imperial Dam
Like many other dams, Imperial Dam impounds much of the suspended sediment moving in the Colorado River but some of that suspended sediment makes its way to the All-American Canal, a major diversion for irrigation and municipal water. Water entering the All-American Canal is settled in several desilting basins to remove most of the remaining suspended sediment. The collected sediment from the...
Grand Canyon Streamflow and Sediment Project
The AZWSC Grand Canyon Streamflow and Sediment project supports the work of Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center’s (GCMRC) Discharge, Sediment and Water Quality Project. This support is accomplished by collecting sediment, temperature, and streamflow data from tributaries of the Colorado River in Grand Canyon and by collecting temperature and streamflow data on the main stem of the Colorado...
AzWSC Capabilities: Reservoir and Lake Monitoring and Assessment
The Arizona Water Science Center (AzWSC) has specialized expertise in monitoring, measuring, and collecting reservoir and lake water and sediment for a variety of phycial and chemical properties.
Occurrence, fate, transport, and ecological effects of aerially applied herbicides in the effort to control invasive buffelgrass (Pennisetum ciliare syn. Cenchrus ciliaris) in Saguaro National Park
The Sonoran Desert lands that the Saguaro National Park (SAGU) has been tasked to protect are facing an unprecedented threat from buffelgrass ( Cenhrus ciliaris ), an invasive perennial grass that was added to Arizona’s noxious weed list in 2005. The buffelgrass invasion has been so pervasive that the U.S. Department of Interior issued a declaration in 2010 which highlighted a need for a “war on...