First published in Cottonwood Journal Extra on 8-23-23. Who hasn’t lost something in the water? Whether it was something valuable, like a camera, or inexpensive, like flip flops, it’s a good bet you’ve had the sinking feeling of watching something go overboard. The following story didn’t happen to me, but I can identify with it. […]
An illustrated textbook, the Verde River Basin Water-Resources Primer – Understanding Our Water and Our Verde River Basin, was produced by the Verde River Basin Partnership, a science-based educational outreach organization, which merged into Friends of the Verde River in 2017. The purpose of this Primer is to provide well-explained, documented source material on the Verde […]
If you spend any time on the Verde River you quickly here the stories about the 1993 and 2004 floods. In 2004 at its high, the flow gauge in Camp Verde hit 50,000 cfs, cubic feet per second. The average flow for the gauge is about 150 cfs. But 1993 is the one year that […]