"I-10 dust storms have claimed more than 50 lives over the last 40 years. While state and federal agencies have taken notice, the burden of emergency response has fallen on rural communities."
Stream Dynamics is helping to mitigate dust on a 30 acre site adjacent to where a fatal accidents have occurred from dust coming off barren and cattle-grazed BLM land.
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Welcome to MP10, a Land Restoration Project Site along I-10 on the Lordsburg Playa where the aim is to get water to soak into the soil, grow plants, and help stop dust from blowing.
Stream Dynamics, Inc. worked with High Desert Native Plants and Tooley’s Keyline Plow to mitigate dust on this 30 acre site adjacent to where a fatal accident occurred from dust coming off barren BLM land that had been leased to a rancher for cattle grazing.
Stream Dynamics built 500 berm and basin features with a small bulldozer to create surface roughness designed to slow near surface wind velocity and prevent eolian scour. The features were covered with 2” of chipped wood mulch before being seeded, keyline plowed and imprinted.
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As a hydrologist for the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality, I've had to pleasure of working with Van Clothier (Stream Dynamics) on watershed restoration activities in Southern Arizona.
In 2018, Van was hired to help in restoring a wetland on The Nature Conservancy's Canelo Hills Preserve south of Tucson. Over the years, respective water harvesting features have been revisited and improved in response to extreme weather events. Overall, the strategies are working as summarized at minute 16:00 of this video: https://youtu.be/dKXuB1V2Y2s
In December 2023, I was invited to accompany Van and other volunteers to help with headcut stabilization upstream of the Canelo Hills wetland. Van agreed to let me record installation of the resulting log vane. I'm sharing the same here for those interested in these strategies.
Scroll forward to start video at 04:40.
Advocates of “regenerative ranching” methods claim they’re slashing the carbon footprint of the ranching industry — but they’re actually propping up a scam that Big Ag is bankrolling.
In today’s episode I spoke with Van Clothier about an innovative and subtle water erosion mitigation technique, and how to build a one rock dam.
I know this might seem oddly specific, but after an interview with Brad Lancaster last season, he talked about how he’s been learning from people like Van and his mentor Bill Zeedyk about smaller, less intrusive interventions that can have profound effects on the health of a watershed.
Van Clothier of Stream Dynamics Inc. explains watershed improvements from realigning drainage structures along the Schnebly Hill Road on the Coconino National Forest.
Stream Dynamics is working with the NMDOT on dust mitigation on the Lordsburg Playa. Here are a few photos and videos of interest.
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Presented by Van Clothier - Stream Dynamics
Nov 1, 2016
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