| Title |
Hydrogeology, water quality, and stormwater-sediment chemistry of the Grande Wash area, Fort McDowell Indian Reservation, Maricopa County, Arizona |
| Creator |
Hoffmann, John P. |
| Subject |
Water quality; Aquifers; Sediments (Geology); Hydrogeology; Groundwater; Water -- Pesticide content; Trace elements in water |
| Spatial Coverage |
Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico); Arizona |
| Description |
Grande Wash is a tributary of the Verde River and drains an area of 13 square miles within the McDowell Mountains and the Town of Fountain Hills in Central Arizona. The wash enters the Fort McDowell Indian Reservation at the eastern boundary of Fountain Hills and is incised in coarse-grained alluvium that is contiguous with the alluvial aquifer along the Verde River. The aquifer is used by the Fort McDowell Indian Community and the City of Phoenix for municipal water supplies. Episodic flows in Grande Wash, in response to storms, carry potentially hazardous runoff from Fountain Hills onto the reservation. Additional potential hazards to ground water include contamination from a wastewater-treatment plant located less than 1 mile upstream from the reservation boundary, and from a landfill and a cement-processing plant immediately adjacent to the main channel of the wash. Coarse-grained deposits in Grande Wash also include recent stream-channel deposits, soil backfill, landfill materia |
| Publisher |
U. S. Geological Survey |
| Contributors |
Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation |
| Date |
2000 |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Digitization Specifications |
pdf file copied from USGS website (http://az.water.usgs.gov/pubs/00-4116intro.htm). Uploaded into CONTENTdm version 3.7. |
| Identifier |
http://az.water.usgs.gov/pubs/00-4116intro.htm |
| Source |
Hoffmann, John P., Hydrogeology, water quality, and stormwater-sediment chemistry of the Grande Wash area, Fort McDowell Indian Reservation, Maricopa County, Arizona, Tucson, Arizona: U. S. Geological Survey Water Resources Investigations Report 00-4116, 52 p. |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights Management |
Public Domain, Courtesy of the USGS |
| Holding Institution |
University of Utah |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6b8571m |
| Setname |
wwdl_er |
| ID |
1145896 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6b8571m |
