Hydrologic Aspects of Land-Use Planning at Tumamoc Hill, Tucson, Arizona
dc.contributor.author | Popkin, Barney Paul | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-08-30T16:07:49Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-08-30T16:07:49Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1974-04-20 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0272-6106 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/300458 | |
dc.description | From the Proceedings of the 1974 Meetings of the Arizona Section - American Water Resources Assn. and the Hydrology Section - Arizona Academy of Science - April 19-20, 1974, Flagstaff, Arizona | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Tumamoc Hill, an 869-acre (352 ha) desert area near Tucson, Arizona, is being considered as a controlled- access environmental site. Water affects the site's geology, soils, vegetation, wildlife, and archaeology. The Hill is drained by three small watersheds. The largest is rapidly urbanizing upstream. Hydrologic aspects include potential flooding and erosion hazards. These may be reduced simply, economically, and wisely in a land-use plan. Upstream development increases storm runoff volumes, and flood peaks, and frequencies routed through the site, and threatens existing downstream urban development. Return periods of channel-overflow floods become shorter with urbanization. The region may be managed to reduce hydrologic hazards by three procedures: widen channels, install low checkdams, and vegetate drainageways. These methods will slow down runoff velocities, and increase cross -sectional area of flow and roughness coefficient. More water would also be available for vegetation and wildlife. The land-use plan should include environmental education programs. These would present important effects of water on the natural ecology, and hydrologic aspects of watershed urbanization. | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science | en_US |
dc.rights | Copyright ©, where appropriate, is held by the author. | en_US |
dc.subject | Hydrology -- Arizona. | en_US |
dc.subject | Water resources development -- Arizona. | en_US |
dc.subject | Hydrology -- Southwestern states. | en_US |
dc.subject | Water resources development -- Southwestern states. | en_US |
dc.subject | Hydrologic aspects | en_US |
dc.subject | Land management | en_US |
dc.subject | Small watersheds | en_US |
dc.subject | Flood protection | en_US |
dc.subject | Urbanization | en_US |
dc.subject | Arizona | en_US |
dc.subject | Land use | en_US |
dc.subject | Topography | en_US |
dc.subject | Land development | en_US |
dc.subject | Planning | en_US |
dc.subject | Soils | en_US |
dc.subject | Vegetation | en_US |
dc.subject | Hydrologic data | en_US |
dc.subject | Geology | en_US |
dc.subject | Wildlife | en_US |
dc.subject | Archaeology | en_US |
dc.subject | Floods | en_US |
dc.subject | Channel improvement | en_US |
dc.subject | Dams | en_US |
dc.subject | Vegetation establishment | en_US |
dc.subject | Erosion control | en_US |
dc.subject | Tumamoc Hill (Tucson Ariz) | en_US |
dc.subject | Land use planning | en_US |
dc.title | Hydrologic Aspects of Land-Use Planning at Tumamoc Hill, Tucson, Arizona | en_US |
dc.type | text | en_US |
dc.type | Proceedings | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Soils, Water and Engineering Department, The University of Arizona, Tucson | en_US |
dc.identifier.journal | Hydrology and Water Resources in Arizona and the Southwest | en_US |
dc.description.collectioninformation | This article is part of the Hydrology and Water Resources in Arizona and the Southwest collections. Digital access to this material is made possible by the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science and the University of Arizona Libraries. For more information about items in this collection, contact anashydrology@gmail.com. | en_US |
refterms.dateFOA | 2018-04-26T13:42:11Z | |
html.description.abstract | Tumamoc Hill, an 869-acre (352 ha) desert area near Tucson, Arizona, is being considered as a controlled- access environmental site. Water affects the site's geology, soils, vegetation, wildlife, and archaeology. The Hill is drained by three small watersheds. The largest is rapidly urbanizing upstream. Hydrologic aspects include potential flooding and erosion hazards. These may be reduced simply, economically, and wisely in a land-use plan. Upstream development increases storm runoff volumes, and flood peaks, and frequencies routed through the site, and threatens existing downstream urban development. Return periods of channel-overflow floods become shorter with urbanization. The region may be managed to reduce hydrologic hazards by three procedures: widen channels, install low checkdams, and vegetate drainageways. These methods will slow down runoff velocities, and increase cross -sectional area of flow and roughness coefficient. More water would also be available for vegetation and wildlife. The land-use plan should include environmental education programs. These would present important effects of water on the natural ecology, and hydrologic aspects of watershed urbanization. |