Updated 6/2011

Presentations

VWA hosts a variety of interesting speakers with knowledgeable presentations at VWA monthly meetings and mini-seminars. These files are either PowerPoint or Adobe .pdf files. Some presentations are quite large and could take some time to download.

Meeting Presentations

Conserve to Enhance: Supporting Environmental Water Needs through Voluntary Water Conservation by Joanna Nadeau, University of Arizona Water Resources Research Center. (1.44 mb .pdf)

A Conflict Between Golf Course and Residential Water Supply at the Talking Rock Ranch Subdivision—A Two-year, Still unresolved Fight Over Water and its Cost, by Bill Meyer, former USGS ground-water hydrologist. (331 kb)

Oak Creek Watershed Council Grant Presentation by Rex Bergamini on January 20, 2010. (4.3 mb., .pdf) The Oak Creek Watershed Council, formerly the Oak Creek Canyon Task Force, is applying Water Quality Improvement Grant funds awarded by the ADEQ to identify and mitigate sources of E. coli within the Oak Creek Watershed. Barry Allan is the Executive Director of the Oak Creek Watershed Council and Grant Administrator for this project. Rex Bergamini is the Council’s technical co-chair and Grant Project Manager/Principal Investigator. He is an expert in riparian systems and wetland restoration.

Climate Change and Arizona: A Look at the Past, Present, and Future by Michael A. Crimmins, Ph.D., University of Arizona Department of Soil, Water, and Environmental Science and Climate Science Extension Specialist for Arizona Cooperative Extension (4 mb .pdf)

Is Artificial Recharge of Treated Effluent a Safe, Long-term Strategy?--by Dr. Frank Butterworth. This talk is an expanded version of a presentation given at the Fall 2008 meeting of the Arizona Hydrological Society in Flagstaff. (808 kb) =-=-=-=-=-Professional Geologist- Article by Butterworth, Janacek & Wolfe.

Chino Valley Presentation on Regional Planning Solutions; February 2008 VWA Meeting (1.2 mb .pdf)

Big Chino--Its Role and Limitations as a Regional Water Resource by Ed Wolfe (8.27 mb .pdf)

Yavapai County Arsenic Facts by Kristine Uhlman, UA/NEMO (5.52 mb .ppt)

Yavapai County Arsenic Facts by Russ Radden, Yavapai County Cooperative Extension (.98 mb .pdf)

ADEQ Watershed Management by Joe Cosgrove, Watershed Resource Specialist (5.70 mb .ppt)

Verde River Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) Unit by Jason Sutter, ADEQ Hydrologist (148 kb .ppt)

ADEQ Supplemental Report Document, Pecks Lake TMDLs (287 kb .pdf)

Arsenic by Jeff Stuck of the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (87 kb .ppt)

Drought by Charlie Ester, SRP Water Resources Manager (14 mb .ppt)

Drought by USGS's Dr. Julio Betancourt (7.27 mb .pdf)

Yavapai County Flood Control Report of Sept. 2004 Walnut Creek and Verde River Flood (flood photos) (5.16 mb .ppt)

Arsenic in the Verde Watershed by Ed McGavock of Errol L. Montgomery and Associates (1 mb .ppt)

Studies

Prescott 7-20-07 Presentation: USGS Reports on the Upper and Middle Verde Watersheds by John P. Hoffmann, U.S. Geological Survey, Arizona Water Science Center, Tucson (4 mb, .pdf)

Verde Valley 7-21-07 Presentation: USGS Reports on the Upper and Middle Verde Watersheds by John P. Hoffmann, U.S. Geological Survey, Arizona Water Science Center, Tucson (4 mb, .pdf)

Ecological Flows Assessment-Verde River Watershed by Jeanmarie Haney, Freshwater Ecologist for TNC (3.04 mb, .pdf)

Species of the Verde River by Brenda Smith, U.S. Fish and Wildlife (796 KB .pdf)

Water Conservation and Golf Courses in the Verde Valley (158.kb. .pdf)

FINAL: Verde Watershed Association 2000 Watershed Restoration Action Strategy (640 kb .pdf)

Bibliography of the Verde River Watershet Project. Originally compiled by Jim Byrkit, assisted by Bruce Hooper, both of Northern Arizona University (279 kb .pdf)

Presentation from the Verde Valley Basin Parternship Forum; February 11, 2006

How an Aquifer Works, by Kyle Blasch, U.S. Geological Survey, (2.63 mb, .pdf)

Verde River Basin Partnership by Supervisor A.G. "Chip" Davis, Yavapai County, District 3 (2.56 mb, .pdf)

Others

Fossil Creek Designated Wild and Scenic * Fossil Creek Legislative Bill

Information about the first Verde River Basin Partnership Forum

Ecological Flows Workshop Series and Final Reports