New forest technology aims to improve tracking of Arizona’s water supplyIn Arizona’s high country, every snowflake is a down payment on the ...
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In Arizona’s high country, every snowflake is a down payment on the water that flows to millions of taps across the Valley. But in recent years, hydrologists have noticed something troubling — not all that snowmelt is making its way downstream.
Some of that melt is being evaporated back into the atmosphere, and some is being absorbed by the soil.
To help solve that mystery, Salt River Project (SRP) has installed a first-of-its-kind aluminum flume deep in the Sycamore Creek watershed near Williams. The 650-pound device was airlifted into the forest by helicopter this fall and will help scientists more accurately measure how much snowmelt turns into runoff — and how much vanishes into the ground or atmosphere.
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