9333

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 9333
• Author: Wright, B. R. and J. A. Sorensen.
• Title: Feasibility of Developing and Maintaining a Sport Fishery in the Salt River project Canals, Phoenix, Arizona.
• USFW Year: 1995.
• USFW - Doc Type: Phoenix.
• Copyright Material: NO

FEASIBILITY OF DEVELOPING AND MAINTAININ
Site 3 was a shallow site (1 in depth) with
fast-moving water. It measured 1.1 km in length
with an average width of 17 in. A water control
structure was located at the upstream end of this
site (19th Avenue; Appendix A, Map 5).
Approximately 8.5 km upstream of Site 3, the
Squaw Peak Water Treatment Plant discharged
alum sludge into the Arizona Canal (Appendix A,
Map 4). This discharge affected turbidity
measurements at Site 3, as well as Sites 1 and 2.
The lower sampling boundary for Site 3 was the
25th Avenue bridge.
Alternate Site 3 was located below Site 3
within the same canal segment (i.e., between 2
water control structures). This site was 0.6 km in
length, averaged 17 in across, and was
approximately 1-m deep. The upstream boundary
was the frontage road immediately downstream of
Interstate 17 (Black Canyon Highway; Appendix
A, Map 5). The lower boundary was the water
control structure adjacent to the Phoenix (Deer
Valley) Water Treatment Plant. A vehicle bridge
(29th Avenue) and a demossing bridge were
located between Interstate 17 and the water
control structure near the Phoenix (Deer Valley)
Water Treatment Plant. Concrete-lined banks
were found at the 29th Avenue bridge, the
demossing bridge, and at the water control
structure. The remaining canal segments within
this site had earthen banks and an earthen
bottom. Overhanging vegetation grew along the
earthen banks. The Phoenix (Deer Valley) Water
Treatment Plant regularly discharged alum sludge
into the canal below the water control structure
that formed the lower boundary of Alternate Site
3.
Alternate Sites 2 and 1 were established
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concrete-lined. The canal bottom of the upper.
segment of Site 2 was earthen, except near thintersection of 43rd Avenue and Peoria Avenue
and 47th Avenue footbridge. The lower segment
of Site 2 was between the 47th Avenue footbridge
and the water control structure near the
intersection of 51st Avenue and Cactus Road.
Downstream of the footbridge, the banks and
bottom were concrete-lined. The Glendale
(Cholla) Water Treatment Plant regularly
discharges alum sludge into the canal. Sludge
accumulates upstream of the water control
structure near the intersection of 51st Avenue and
Cactus Road. Alum sludge can be as deep as 2 m
in the lower segment of this site. We abandoned
fish collections below the 47th Avenue footbridge
because of the alum sludge.
Site 1 was located at the end of the Arizona
Canal and was predominantly slack water. This
site was 1.6 km long and averaged 10 in in width.
A water control structure was located at the top
of the site below the 67th Avenue bridge
(Appendix A, Map 6). The lower boundary of
this site was the Skunk Creek Drain Gate. The
upper boundary of this site had an average water
depth of 1-m while the lower boundary was
approximately 2-m deep. Site 1 had concrete-lined
banks and bottom.
Physical structures (i.e., bridges and water
control structures), lateral canals, water treatment
plants, and potential access sites (i.e., city streets,
selected city parks, and concrete maintenance
ramps) along the Arizona Canal are mapped in
Appendix A. Habitat features (i.e., dirt-lined and
concrete-lined banks), water control structures,
and qualitative flow regimes (i.e., pools, runs, and
specifically to collect stocked fish for contaminant riffles) in the Arizona Canal are mapped in
analysis; however, these sites were sampled
sporadically. Therefore, these alternate sites will
not be discussed further.
Site 2 was about 1.5 in deep and had slower-
moving water than Site 3. This site measured 2.2
km in length and had an average width of 15 m.
This site was divided into 2 segments (i.e., upper
and lower). The upper segment was between the
water control structure just upstream of the 43rd
Avenue and Peoria Avenue intersection to the
47th Avenue footbridge just upstream of the
Glendale (Cholla) Water Treatment Plant
(Appendix A, Map 6). Approximately 1/3 of the
northern side of the upper segment canal bank
was earthen with overhanging vegetation, while
Appendix B.
Locations for the water quality, chlorophyll a,
benthos, and plankton sampling stations on the
Arizona Canal are identified in Appendix C.
Typically, these stations were found at bridges or
water control structures.
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