Reyna Preciado is KGUN 9's Southside and City of South Tucson reporter. Send your story ideas to Reyna at [email protected].
TUCSON, Ariz. — Rivers and washes stay dry most of the year in the Sonoran Desert, but when monsoon hits, we get to see them in action.
In 1983, the Tucson area saw one of its most severe floods in history. It caused damages of over $100 million according to Camille Hall with Pima County Flood Control District. The county decided to invest in preventing severe flooding, which paid off several years later.“We saw another flood event in 1993, where we saw record volumes of flow going through the washes, but we only saw $17 million in property damage, which is still a huge amount.
“We are a very desertous, sandy state compared to some place maybe in the Midwest or the Northeast where you have a lot of that dense vegetation. That’s holding a lot of that soil in place. So when the rains come, it seeps into that ground and is soaked up by those plants. In the desert, we don’t have a bunch of that, so there’s a lot more runoff,” she said.
“So something you’ll see on the side of the bank is the soil cement structures. We build those structures as a wall to limit the erosion of the banks. Washes naturally meander, they’ll move, they’ll erode, but that bank protection is built to keep those washes in place,” said Hall.
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