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Awesome Community Support of River Cleanup Efforts
A massive riverside cleanup on Saturday, January 27, overflowed with community spirit—much like the river had flooded part of Carmen with trash. Friends of the Santa Cruz River (FOSCR), along with numerous partners, organized the event. Among other complications, this...
Community Clean-Up January 27th
Community Clean-up of a Big River-borne Trash Pile Sponsored by Friends of the Santa Cruz River WHEN: Saturday, January 27, 9 AM to 12:30 PM WHERE: Behind the Tumacacori Mesquite Sawmill in Carmen, between Tubac and Tumacacori, #2007 East Frontage Road DETAILS: wear...
Call Your Congressmen: Pass The “Nogales Wastewater Fairness Act”!
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...
Earth Harmony Festival Session on the IOI Water-Sewage Situation
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,...
Urgent Need for Volunteers!
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 internet survey...
IBWC Southeast Arizona Citizens Forum September 21 at 5pm
International Boundary and Water Commission United States Section For immediate release September 7, 2017 Aid for Rural Drinking Water Systems and Sanitation Concerns to be Discussed in September 21 Public Meeting in Tubac The United States Section of the...
FOSCR Statement on the Recent Rupture of the IOI
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...
Nogales Wash and Climate Change
Article written by FOSCR Board member Ben Lomeli Every storm that hits Nogales, AZ puts pressure on the deteriorating sewage pipe that carries 14 million gallons of sewage daily, mostly from Mexico, right through the small city of Nogales, AZ to the...
Climate change is shrinking the Colorado River
NOTE: This article is reposted from TheConversation.Com originally posted on June 13, 2017 10.22pm EDT. Read the original article with links to additional information at: https://theconversation.com/climate-change-is-shrinking-the-colorado-river-76280 The nation’s two...
Endangered Gila topminnow to combat mosquitoes, West Nile and Zika in Pima County
From the Arizona Game and Fish Department: Endangered Gila topminnow to combat mosquitoes, West Nile and Zika in Pima County: Fish used to reduce West Nile, Zika virus threat Posted May 26, 2017 (*This release is issued jointly with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service...
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