Documents

Rio de Flag Watershed Plan 2023

WaterSMART Grant Agreement

Interim Report Eight_210429_Final_sm

Rio de Flag Flood Control Project

• ACE Flooding along the Rio de Flag (from “Rio de Flag and Sinclair Wash.” U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles, Calif. Sept 1975)

• ACE Reconnaissance Report – May 1997 (Warning: 186MB)

• ACE 100-year floodplain map

• ACE Rio de Flag Feasibility Report and Final Environmental Impact Statement – Sept 2000

• ACE Final Environmental Impact Statement – Sept 2000

• COF open and closed channel section concept plan – Sept 2005

• ACE Value Engineering (VE) Study Report, January 2010

• ACE Priority Alternatives Descriptions and Cost Summary Report, March 2010

• COF summary of Rio de Flag Flood Control Project for March 2013 Washington DC legislative trip

• COF Rio de Flag Greenway concept drawing – closed channel

• COF Rio de Flag Greenway concept drawing – open channel

• COF Rio de Flag Flood Control Council Update Powerpoint – Feb 26 2013

• COF Rio de Flag Project phase & alignment map, Feb 7 2013

• FOR Important City owned open space parcels along the Rio de Flag – July 2010

• FOR Important privately owned open space parcels along the Rio de Flag – November 2010

• FOR Rio de Flag Main Stem Channel Length Data – by Collis Lovely

• Rio de Flag Flood Control Powerpoint presentation to City Council – June 3 2014

• Rio de Flag Flood Control Design Concept Project Report (Final Draft – May 28 2014 – Warning: 26MB)

• Surface water hydrology Flagstaff Arizona 2008-2019

• Flagstaff Area Stream Fluvial Geomorphology Gaged Site Analysis

Leroux Springs

• Beale, Lt. Edward F., Wagon Road from Fort Defiance to the Colorado River. House of Representatives Executive Document No. 124, 35th Congress, 1st Session, 1858:51 [title page & pg 51].

• Cline, P. They Came to the Mountain: The Story of Flagstaff’s Beginnings, Northland Press,1976 [selected pages re Leroux Springs].

• Coody, Robert A., Historic Fort Valley Arizona: An Archaeological Survey and Historic overview, pg. 30-35

• Friends of the Rio de Flag, Google map with hiking directions to Leroux Springs.

• Holm, Richard F., Leroux Springs geology map, from Geologic Map of San Francisco Mountain, Elden Mountain, and Dry Lake Hills, Coconino County, Arizona, 1988.

• Holm, Richard F., (op cit), Leroux Springs geology elevation map.

• McDougall, M. M. (ed.), Through Indian Country to California: John P. Sherburne’s Diary of the Whipple Expedition, 1853-1854, Stanford University Press, 1988 [title page and pgs 148-155].

• Monroe, Stephen, Big Leroux Spring flow data- 2004-2013.

• Monroe, Stephen, Big Leroux Spring flow & climate data- 2003-2013.

• Monroe, Stephen. et al., 2011, Big Leroux Spring [white paper and cover letter to U.S. Forest Service requesting return of surface flow to Big Leroux Spring].

• Monroe, Stephen. et al., Big Leroux Spring Poster, 2013.

• Mullhousen drawing of San Francisco Peaks from Leroux Springs area, 1853.

• Olberding, S.D., Fort Valley Then and Now: A Look at an Arizona Settlement,
  Fort Valley Publishing. 2002 [selected pages re Leroux Springs].

• Pattee, C.R., “Flagstaff and the Grand Canyon,” The Land of Sunshine Magazine, June, 1897, pg 125.

• Sitgreaves 1853 Report to Congress [title page and pages 10 & 11].

• Sitgreaves route map in Wallace, A. and Hevly, R. (2007) From Texas to San Diego in 1851: The Overland Journal of Dr. S. W. Woodhouse, Surgeon-Naturalist of the Sitgreaves Expedition. Lubbock, TX. Texas Tech University Press.

• USDA Forest Service, Wing Mountain Fuels Reduction and Forest Health Restoration documents.

• Whipple, A.W., Explorations for a Railway Route, Near the Thirty-fifth Parallel of Latitude, for the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. 1855 [selected pages re Leroux Springs].

Science and education

• Bezy, J.V. 2003. A Guide to the Geology of the Flagstaff Area. Arizona Geological Survey Down-to-Earth Series DTE-14, 56 p.

• Busco J, M Hill, S Lamb. pre 2025. List of plants in lower Sinclair Wash.

• Carswell, Cally. June 2015. Tree of Life in High Country News.

• Graf, C. August 2016. Reclaimed Water in Arizona: History of Use and Current Issues. PowerPoint. Arizona Department of Environmental Quality.

• Licher, Max. 2017. Report summarizing plant identification consulting work for the Flagstaff Floodplain Management Plan.  full text, and spreadsheet.

• City of Flagstaff Parks. 2014. Plant list Picture Canyon.

• Arizona Water Facts. Arizona Department of Water Resources

Misc documents

• Stream Flow Variability and Timing of a Regional Ephemeral Stream in Northern Arizona—abstract

• Friends of the Rio de Flag Fall 2009 Newsletter

• 1952 Rio de Flag Water Based Recreation and Wildlife Development Plan

• Canyon Diablo Watershed – Rapid Watershed Assessment Report June 2011

• Tucson Audubon Society. 2018. Bringing Birds Home: A guide to Enhancing Rivers, Streams and Desert Washes for Birds and Other Wildlife. Created as part of the Arizona Important Bird Areas Program.

• Tucson Audubon Society. 2018. Bringing Birds Home: A guide to Enhancing Grasslands for Birds and Other Wildlife. Created as part of the Arizona Important Bird Areas Program.

Links

• Rio de Flag: Flowing Through Time by Bill Gaud

• Rio de Flag: Resources by Kent Hendrick

Data

• Rio de Flag Main Stem Channel Length Data by Collis Lovely

• Climate Variation at Flagstaff, Arizona – 1950 to 2007 by Richard Hereford, USGS

• Big Leroux Spring Flow 2004-2013

• Big Leroux Spring Flow & Climate (Graph)

• Stone Landmarks, by Marie D. Jackson, pages 55 & 88-92

• Stone Landmarks Rio de Flag map – page 92

• Sitgreaves 1851 Expedition Report – pages 10-11 (Leroux Springs)

• Sitgreaves Route Map

• Lt. Edward F. Beale. Wagon Road from Fort Defiance to the Colorado River. House of Representatives Executive Document No. 124, 35th Congress, 1st Session, 1858:51 (Title Page)

• Beale (op cit), pg 51 (Fort Valley and Leroux Springs descriptions)

Maps

• 1878 Survey Map

• 1878 Survey Map Overlay

• 1911 USGS Topo Map

• 1901 Sanborn-Perris Map of Flagstaff

• Rio Watershed through Flagstaff – 3D

• Historic and Current Channel Alignments

• Leroux Springs geology – fromGeologic Map of San Francisco Mountain, Elden Mountain, and Dry Lake Hills, Coconino County, Arizona, by Richard F. Holm, 1988

• Leroux Springs geology – elevation map [Full citation]

Images & Presentations

• Mullhousen drawing of SF Peaks from Leroux Springs area – 1853

• Mullhousen repeat photo – 2010

• Kern lithograph –View west from SF Peaks

• Rio de Flag poster – 2010

• Rio de Flag poster – 2013

• Big Leroux Spring Poster – 2013

• Postcards from the Bottomless Pit

• Bottomless Pit presentation from Hydrologist Don Bills – 7/2013

• Water Works Part 1 – Origins Presentation by Brad Garner – 9/2013

• Water Works Part 2 – Our Water Future Presentation by Erin Young – 10/2013

• Water Works Part 3 – Water Reuse Presentation by Brad Hill – 2/2014

Gallery