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Cochise County flood-control briefing covers recharge projects, USGS monitoring and Army Corps watershed study; supervisors question recharge yield
Summary
County staff outlined flood-control district projects including Palominas recharge, Coyote Wash and watershed studies; supervisors raised questions about recharge effectiveness and budget priorities. No decisions were taken during the informational work session.
County Engineer Jackie Watkins and staff briefed the Board of Supervisors on flood-control district activities April 29, describing monitoring and recharge projects, grant-funded investigations and planned repairs to detention and recharge infrastructure across Cochise County.
Watkins presented a portfolio of projects that includes the Palominas recharge and infiltration work (now in year nine of monitoring), a Coyote Wash recharge project north of Highway 90 estimated at about $6.5 million with grant funding, repair work at Horseshoe Draw detention basins, the 3 Canyons recharge research effort (funded in part by an Arizona Smart grant application) and a USGS stream-monitoring program the county shares that Watkins said costs the county about $125,000.
She said the county is working with partner cities on several projects: Riverstone is a recharge project the county is funding in part and that the City of Sierra Vista is designing; an intergovernmental…
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