Please join us for:
A ROAD DRAINAGE AND WATER HARVESTING
WORKSHOP: January 26-28, 2015
Sponsored by Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge and Sierrita Gas Pipeline LLC
With support from Altar Valley Conservation Alliance

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AN ARROYO RESTORATION AND STABILIZATION
WORKSHOP: January 29-30, 2015
Sponsored by Pima County Department of Natural Resources Parks and Recreation
With support from Altar Valley Conservation Alliance

Learn from the experience of Steve Carson watershed restoration specialist and protégé of Bill Zeedyk. Steve has personally designed and installed over 6,000 road drainage structures that encompass over 600 miles of dirt and gravel roads in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas that have all been properly drained and water harvested for productive benefit. He has worked as a surface hydrologist practitioner over the last twelve years restoring rivers, arroyos, wetlands, roads and farmland. Steve also has a worked on a number of road systems in the Altar Valley over the last seven years. See rangelandhands.com for more background.

The Road Drainage and Water Harvesting class on January 26-28th will cover these aspects of road drainage and water harvesting and more: Why proper road drainage is important to the overall health of the watershed; why properly drained roads significantly reduce the need for and cost of maintenance, and in the cases of county and state road systems how these organizations can SAVE MILLIONS of dollars a year by implementing these techniques; why crowned and ditched roads really are not effective at draining road efficiently; how to maintain drainage structures once they have been installed; how to select the right equipment and why this is important; and how to use a clinometer to shoot grade in the field.
The Arroyo Restoration and Stabilization class on January 29-30th will be conducted at the Elkhorn/Las Delicias Demonstration Project site in the Altar Valley, which was installed in January 2012. This site covers over 400 acres of eroded arroyos and road that Steve and Bill Zeedyk designed and restored with the help of many others. You will get to review the hundreds of rock structures that have been installed at this site and learn why and how they work. You will also get hands on experience building and maintaining structures such as One Rock Dams, Zuni Bowls, Media Lunas, Baffles, Brush Structures and more. You will learn: How to assess a site for restoration; planning logistics for your project; dry stack rock masonry techniques; how to use a Clinometer or a hand level to shoot elevations in the field; why getting a vegetation component started is so important; and the basic principles of Induced Meandering developed by Bill Zeedyk to restore incised arroyos.

For more information and registration forms, please click here.