1. AZ Green Chamber Of Commerce February 14th Lunch and Learn: Water – What You Need To Know Now To Prepare Your Business For The Future.
When: 02/14/2018
11:30 AM – 1:30 PM
Location
1720 Camelback Rd Phoenix, AZ 85016
Registration
Arizona Sustainability Alliance and their Guest – $25.00
Comp Presenter
Green Living and their Guest – $25.00
Local First Members and Their Guests – $25.00
Member and their Guest – $25.00
Non-Member and their Guest – $35.00
Water policy in the face of Arizona’s 18 year drought is the most pressing issue facing the Arizona legislature this session and the biggest challenge we, as Arizonan’s face.
Location: Bluewater Grill 1720 E Camelback Rd Phoenix, AZ 85016
WHERE WOULD WE BE WITHOUT WATER? Arizona’s economy and our lifestyle here in Arizona depend on a stable water supply.
2. Are You or Do You Want To Be An Organic Gardner Of Fresh Vegetables? Being an organic gardener can be as easy as using “Jobe’s Organic Fertilizer” or you can maximize your garden soil by using organic compost or the following:
Organic Sources of Nitrogen [N] (To support the growth of leaves)
If you have the room, you can grow “Green Manure” for Nitrogen. Green Manure crops include: clover, vetch, alfalfa, cowpeas, buckwheat and ryegrass.
Organic Source of Phosphorous [P] (To support the growth of roots, brighter, more colorful flowers that last lognger. It also helps plants to survive freezing temperatures)
Organic Sources of Potash [K] (Carries nutrients throughout the plant making strong roots, stems and helps defend against root diseases)
1 Hardwoods, for example, generally produce more ash and contain more nutrients than softwood. According to the very thorough information from Oregon State University Extension Service, ash from a cord of oak will provide enough potassium for a garden 60 x 70 feet, whereas a cord of Douglas Fir will be sufficient for a garden 30 x 30 feet
2 Green sand is an organic fertilizer that contains the deposits of minerals that were once part of the ocean floor. Also called “glauconite,” greensand has a bluish-green color. The nitrogen-phosphorus-potassium (NPK) ratio for greensand is approximately 0-0-3. Green sand, or glauconite, is a material from the ocean floor that is mined to be used as a soil conditioner or fertilizer. It is made of marine potash, silica, iron oxide, magnesia, lime, phosphoric acid, and about 30 other trace minerals.
By now you should have started broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage. When the cauliflower begins to bloom, pull the leaves together over the flower, and use a rubber band or string to hold the flower covered to keep the cauliflower flower white.
2. Arizona Has Many Dams and Reservoirs To Keep All Of Arizona In Water. How many dams does Arizona have? SEE ANSWER ON NEXT PAGE
3. Can You Name 15 dams in Arizona? SEE ANSWER ON NEXT PAGE
4. What Is The Deepest Dam In The World? How Deep? SEE NEXT PAGE FOR ANSWER.
5. Poll: Arizonans See Outdoor Recreation as Vital to State Economy. Water conservation also was a top priority for those surveyed.
A poll conducted at the beginning of the year shows that 91 percent of Arizonans believe that the outdoor recreation economy is vital for the state’s economic growth.
“They see all those more sustainable sources of income that is hunters, fishers, bird watchers, campers and hikers,” said Jonah Seifer, specialist for the Conservation in the West Poll. “They see that as a more sustainable source of revenue into the future as opposed to the extractive industries.”
The Colorado College State of the Rockies surveyed 400 registered voters in Arizona using phone interviews conducted by two bipartisan firms. The method employed a random digitdialing process.
Seifer said 78 percent of Arizonans favor water conservation measures because Arizona is a part of the Colorado River system.
“I think it’s especially apparent among Arizona’s population that water shortages are a really serious issue in the Mountain West,” Seifer said.
6. Answers To Numbers 2,3,and 4 on the previous page.
From the previous page question No. 2 How Many Dams and Reservoirs are there in Arizona? 26
From the previous page question No. 3 Name 15 dams located in Arizona? Pick any 15 below
- Alamo Lake, United States Army Corps of Engineers
- Ashfork-Bainbridge Steel Dam, Steel Dam Reservoir, privately owned
- Bartlett Dam, Bartlett Lake, United States Bureau of Reclamation
- Childs-Irving Hydroelectric Facilities, Stehr Lake, privately owned
- Coolidge Dam, San Carlos Lake, United States Bureau of Indian Affairs
- Davis Dam, Lake Mohave, USBR
- Gillespie Dam, unnamed reservoir, privately owned
- Glen Canyon Dam, Lake Powell, USBR
- Granite Basin Dam, Granite Basin Lake, United States Forest Service
- Granite Reef Diversion Dam, unnamed reservoir of the Salt River, USBR
- Headgate Rock Dam, unnamed reservoir, Flood Control District of Maricopa County
- Hoover Dam, Lake Mead, USBR
- Horse Mesa Dam, Apache Lake, USBR
- Horseshoe Dam, Horseshoe Lake, USBR
- Imperial Dam, Imperial Reservoir, USBR
- Laguna Diversion Dam, unnamed reservoir of the Colorado River, USBR (on California
border) - Lyman Dam, Lyman Reservoir, privately owned
- Morelos Dam, unnamed reservoir of the Colorado River, International Boundary and Water
Commission(on Mexican border) - Mormon Flat Dam, Canyon Lake, USBR
- New Cornelia Tailings Dam, largest US dam by volume, privately owned
- New Waddell Dam, Lake Pleasant, USBR
- Painted Rock Dam, Painted Rock Reservoir, USACE
- Palo Verde Dam, diversion dam on the Colorado River, USBR
- Parker Dam, Lake Havasu, USBR
- Stewart Mountain Dam, Saguaro Lake, USBR
- Theodore Roosevelt Dam, Theodore Roosevelt Lake, USBR
From the previous page, question No. 3 Deepest dam in the world? Parker Dan. Parker Dan was built between 1934 and 1938 by the Bureau of Reclamation and is the reason Lake Havasu exists. Parker Dam is the deepest dam in the world; 73 percent of its structural height of 320 feet is below the original riverbed. Two-hundred and thirty-five feet of the Colorado riverbed was excavated before concrete was placed for the dam’s foundation. Only about 85 feet of the dam is visible; the dam’s superstructure rises another 62 feet above the roadway across the top of the dam.
7. Water Overhaul Bills Would Extend Pumping, Ease Use Limits.(Bad Idea?) Longawaited legislation overhauling Arizona’s water management policies includes proposals to waive restrictions on overuse contained in a landmark 1980 state law
Long-awaited legislation overhauling Arizona’s water management policies includes proposals to waive some restrictions on overuse contained in a landmark 1980 state law. Proponents called it a long-needed update, while an environmental activist said it just shifts a coming water crisis to the next generation.
The proposals introduced by Republican Sen. Gail Griffin of Hereford would allow overpumping in some areas to continue 10 years longer than current law allows.
The proposal also reintroduces workarounds to water use restrictions for Cochise and Yuma counties that Gov. Doug Ducey vetoed in 2016.
Other provisions include a ban on water exports, studying desalination as a new water source and exemptions to current pumping rules for greenhouses.
The Republican governor and his staff have been working with lawmakers for months to craft the first major changes since the 1980 Groundwater Management Act. Griffin said Tuesday that Arizona water policy has long been ahead of California and other states and the new proposals continue that advance.
“We want everybody to know that Arizona is not sitting on our hands and doing nothing on water,” Griffin said. “We have sufficient water but we want to continue good water policy, and that’s what this bill does.”
One of the major proposals would benefit Griffin’s home county, Cochise, by making it easier for the county to ease requirements that developers show they have a 100-year supply of water. Griffin sponsored similar legislation in 2016 that was vetoed by Ducey. She said in an interview that her county has plenty of water from the San Pedro River and the new law would encourage conservation.
“It adds additional requirements that are not even in active management areas but are good water conservation policies,” she said. “And it allows them to move forward in making a plan. That explanation didn’t fly with Sandy Bahr, director of the Sierra Club’s Grand Canyon chapter, who said the legislation removes important protections for the San Pedro river in Southern Arizona and the Verde River north of Phoenix.
“We’re already struggling to keep Sierra Vista from pumping the San Pedro dry, so this is a step backward,” Bahr said. “There’s really nothing in the package that helps rivers. There’s actually provisions that further the harm.”
The proposal eases an existing requirement that groundwater pumping operations meet “safe yield” requirements by 2025, extending it until 2035. It also strips the Central Arizona Project of the ability to raise a common defense to lawsuits by state entities and moves oversight of some water conservations districts from the state Land Department to the Forestry and Fire Management Department.
The proposal is contained in one overarching bill, while eight others break out individual items contained in the larger proposal. Griffin said she wanted to ensure that interested parties understood their individual concerns had been well thought out.
The maneuver does, however, make it easier to remove a specific provision. A spokesman for Ducey, Daniel Scarpinato, didn’t immediately comment Tuesday on the proposal.
Bahr said her quick take on the proposal is that “it defers the keys issues with water to another day — it’s not really addressing them.”
— The main legislation is Senate Bill 1507
