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<br />, <br /> <br />000731 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Bureau of Land Management <br />Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program <br />Accomplishments for fIscal year 1994 <br /> <br />Arizona <br /> <br />BLM continued a soils inventory with special consideration for identification of saline soils, <br />One hundred and twenty-five thousand acres were completed in central and southern Mohave <br />County. In cooperation with Arizona Department of Environmental Quality, Soil Conservation <br />Service, and others BLM used a Global Information System to identify high priority <br />watersheds where management could significantly decrease salt yields, Based upon this work, <br />the Interagency Phase I Ranking report will be completed in the Fall of 1994, Monitoring of <br />total dissolved solids, sedimentation and water quality in Aravaipa Creek, and on the San <br />Simon and San Pedro Rivers continued, Additional data collection was completed to assess <br />salinity in Kanab Creek drainage, Hurricane Wash, and the Clayhole Wash, <br /> <br />Total Salinity Dollars Spent = $ 49,000 <br />/ <br /> <br />Colorado <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Inventory occurred on 40,000 acres of BLM land in the Grand Vall~y, Although these lands <br />were previously classified as miscellaneous, rough, broken land; this inventory has found <br />15,000 acres to be saline, Future planning for this land will better reflect true site <br />characteristics and ecological potential. Water monitoring stations have been installed on <br />Douglas Creek and Vermillion Creek to collect sediment and dissolved solids, <br /> <br />Comprehensive planning was initiated for Spring Creek and Dry Creek (San Juan Resource <br />Area), and on two watersheds of the Little Snake Resource Area, including Vermillion Creek, <br />The Bureau of Reclamation and BLM are working under Interagency Agreement to implement <br />measures which will decrease soil erosion and salt loading in the Grand Valley salt desert area, <br />During Fiscal Year 1994, additional emphasis has been placed on the role of groundwater, <br /> <br />In the Grand Junction Resource Area, implementation has included construction of five stock <br />ponds and development of two water wells, These measures have improved plant cover <br />through improved livestock distribution, Prescribed burning, to increase vegetative cover, was <br />conducted,by G1enwood Springs Resource Area personnel on 160 acres of the Milk-Alkali <br />drainage. Poison Creek work included construction of one in-stream structure and <br />maintenance of two others, <br /> <br />Total Salinity Dollars Spent = $ 149,200 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />20 <br />