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Audubon joins Tribute opposition

Thu, 05/10/2012 - 12:10am

Shar Porier

Herald/Review

At the last Upper San Pedro Partnership meeting, U.S. Bureau of Land Management Gila District Manager Tom Dabbs presented a letter of opposition to the issuance of Designation of Adequate Water Supply to a local company.

The letter to the Arizona Department of Water Resources stated BLM’s objection that there is not enough water legally available for use by the Pueblo Del Sol Water Company for the next 100 years.

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Our Readers' Views: Depleting the savings account

Tue, 05/08/2012 - 12:10am

The Sierra Vista Herald/Bisbee Daily Review

To the Editor:

Senator Griffin’s recent guest opinion displayed a lack of understanding of water resources that is unfortunately quite common in this area.

She noted that there has been conflict over water resources ever since the SPRNCA was created in the late 80s. At that time, the ground water system upon which everyone in the Sierra Vista sub-basin and the San Pedro River depend was in a deficit condition, based on a number of peer-reviewed studies that all showed that more water was being withdrawn from the ground water system than was being naturally recharged.

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Mine operation could drop groundwater levels in Sonoita, Elgin

Sun, 04/29/2012 - 12:10am

Richard Kamp, Wick Communications Environmental Liasion

The Sierra Vista Herald/Bisbee Daily Review

A report released Wednesday by the nonprofit Sonoran Institute estimates that dewatering pumping at the Rosemont Mine pit could potentially drop groundwater in Sonoita and Elgin by 980 feet and 660 feet, respectively.

The figures were dismissed by a Rosemont Mine official.

The report includes data by Dr. Waite Osterkamp and University of Arizona hydrology Professor Larry Summers, and was submitted in January as a comment on the Rosemont Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS).

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Our View: A sensible idea

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 12:10am

The Sierra Vista Herald/Bisbee Daily Review

The significance of statements made Tuesday at a gathering of the Southeastern Arizona Contractors Association cannot be over emphasized.

During the monthly luncheon meeting of the group, Cochise County Supervisor Pat Call and county engineer Karen Riggs outlined efforts to replenish the San Pedro aquifer by capturing storm water runoff.

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Partnership agrees to rank San Pedro projects, studies

Sat, 02/04/2012 - 12:01am

By Shar Porier

Herald/Review

SIERRA VISTA —With an eye toward prioritizing possible projects and studies, the Upper San Pedro Partnership has agreed to design a spreadsheet that will rank each effort.

U.S. Bureau of Land Management Gila District Manager Tom Dabbs offered a beginning template to the USPP members at last week’s executive committee meeting. It included project or study contacts, the agency or group making the request, project name and summary, construction costs, annual maintenance costs, funding options and the estimated acre feet per year that will be produced.

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Water Wise: Presentation will will offer well owners water quality insights

Thu, 02/02/2012 - 12:10am

Cado Daily, Program Coordinator Senior, Water Wise Program

The Sierra Vista Herald/Bisbee Daily Review

Well, What do we know?

If you are a well owner, do you know if your water is safe to drink? If you use well water, you most likely have a septic system. When was the last time it was inspected?

Well owners may enjoy the freedom of not paying a water bill, but with that comes the responsibility of assuring their water meets drinking water standards. Unlike private well owners, public water suppliers must comply with Arizona Department of Environmental Quality and U.S. Safe Drinking Water Act requirements.

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Water issues key to fort's future, environmentalist says

Says fort, community must take responsibility

Sat, 01/28/2012 - 12:01am

By Bill Hess

Herald/Review

SIERRA VISTA — While an environmental opponent of Fort Huachuca said he expects the post will not be closed, he expressed continuing concern of the lack of responsibility by post officials and leaders in the civilian community when it comes to water issues.

Co-founder and board member of the Center for Biological Diversity Dr. Robin Silver, a medical doctor, said the amount of money the Army and Department of Defense has spent on the post still lacks any sense of responsibility for damaging the environment.

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Our Readers' Views: Article missed an important point on San Pedro

Wed, 11/30/2011 - 7:45pm

The Sierra Vista Herald/Bisbee Daily Review

To the Editor:

In Shar Porier’s article on the declining state of the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area (Sierra Vista Herald, Nov. 27), there are two major problems that were not addressed by representatives from the National Riparian Service Team.

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Friends of the San Pedro: Our Water, Our River

Thu, 09/08/2011 - 8:49pm

Figure One

The Sierra Vista Herald/Bisbee Daily Review

With very minor exceptions, all the water we use here we pump from the ground. The water comes not from an underground lake but from between soil particles that fill our valley after being eroded from our mountains.

In total, we call these particles and the water they hold, our aquifer. Figure 1 is a simplified diagram of the parts of such a system in a valley such as ours. The “Zone of saturation” is the aquifer.

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Water Wonderland: Importance of the cottonwoods

Fri, 07/08/2011 - 12:56am

Fremont cottonwood in fall foliage. (Photo courtesy of Gary Noonan)

By Dutch Nagle

For the Herald/Review

Many people wonder why we don’t cut down the cottonwoods because they use so much water. Many also do not believe that they are native to the area. I would like to present the following case in favor of the trees.

The Fremont cottonwoods, native fossils of cottonwood trees found in the San Pedro River area, have been dated from 10,000 years ago, and cottonwood trees were described by the Coronado expedition, which went through this area in the 1540s.

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