by foscraz | Nov 19, 2017 | Call to Action, House of Representatives Bill, Senate Bill
A necessary first step in reaching a comprehensive solution to our ongoing border sewage/flood problems is to establish Federal responsibility for the IOI (“International Outfall Interceptor”), which runs for 9 miles from the Mexican border to the Nogales...
by foscraz | Oct 31, 2017 | Uncategorized
Report by Ben Lomeli The Nogales Wash channel is very old, in bad condition and way under capacity to safely convey increasingly bigger floods and sediments flows due to upstream development, expected to continue. Detention basins constructed in Mexico are too few,...
by foscraz | Oct 26, 2017 | Uncategorized
In advance of the Sonoran Institute’s Nov. 16 meeting in Tubac to further explore public opinion on our river’s issues and value, I’ve agreed to help them run a short (5 minutes) survey of people walking on the Anza Trail (rather than just depend on...
by foscraz | Aug 5, 2017 | International Outfall Interceptor, River Health
Friends of the Santa Cruz River has been concerned for some time that the binational sewage pipe, the International Outfall Interceptor (IOI), could be breached by floods in the Nogales Wash under which it lies. A pipe break would spill raw sewage into the communities...
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