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Water resources of the Sycamore Creek watershed, Maricopa County, Arizona
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Thomsen, Bjarti Schumann, Herbert H. |
| Copyright Year | 1969 |
| Abstract | The Sycamore Greek watershed, is representative of many small watersheds in the Southwest where much of the streamflow originates in the mountainous areas and disappears rather quickly into the alluvial deposits adjacent to the mountains. Five years of istreamflow records from the Sycamore Greek watershed show that an average annual water yield of 6,110 acre-feet was obtained from the 165 square miles (105,000 acres) of the upper hard-rock mountain area, which, receives an average annual precipitation of about 20 inches. Only a small percentage of the 'annual water yield, however, reaches the Verde River as surface flow over the 9-mile reach of the alluvial channel below the mountain front. Flows must be more 'than 200 cubic feet per second to reach the river; flows less than this rate disappear into the lower alluvial area and are stored temporarily in the ground-'W'ater reservoir; most of this water is released as ground-water dis-_ charge to the Verde River at a relatively constant rate of about 4,000 acre-feet per year. Evapotranspiration losses in the lower alluvial area are controlled by the depth of the water table and averaged a'bout 1,500 acre-feet per year. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.3133/wsp1861 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://pubs.usgs.gov/wsp/1861/report.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.3133/wsp1861 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
