Rio Salado Update Winter 2001

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Rio Salado Breaks Ground
Rio Salado Citizen Advisory Committee Meets

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County Supervisors to Consider Additional Funding

Flood Control District of Maricopa County engineers have successfully completed the first phase of the Phoenix Rio Salado Low Flow Channel project. The project, headed by Flood Control District Chief Engineer Mike Ellegood, is a dig in the middle of the Salt River bed. The resulting channel will extend from Interstate 10 downstream to 19th Avenue and will carry upstream water releases that will protect the vegetation and wetlands developed outside the low flow channel. The Flood Control District already has committed $11 million toward the entire five-mile project. Soon the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors will have an opportunity to keep the low flow channel project moving forward when they decide whether to approve an additional $7 million that will allow crews to break ground this spring on the second phase.

"We are excited that the Flood Control District of Maricopa County is a partner in this project," said Karen Williams, project coordinator for the City of Phoenix. "We encourage our community to contact the County Supervisors to thank them for their support and to urge them to vote "yes" on Phoenix Rio Salado at their February 21 meeting."

Rio Salado advisory committee members tour low-flow-channel.

Concrete grade control structures are part of the low-flow channel.

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Phoenix Has A Bond Election On March 13

If approved by voters in March, the $743.9 million bond program will provide community improvements for Phoenix over the next five years.

Last summer, the City Council asked nearly 300 residents to serve on the 2001 Citizens' Bond Committee and to lead the ten subcommittees that would compile the list of projects to put before the voters on March 13. Their only marching orders from the Council: Come up with a program requiring NO INCREASE IN THE PROPERTY TAX RATE.

PROPOSITION 3 - Facilities to Improve the Environment and the Clean-Up of Polluted Sites - would provide $24.8 million to fund environmental assessments, clean-ups, infrastructure development, revegetation, renovation and expansion of city service centers, the Phoenix Rio Salado and neighborhood pollution sites.

Take Part in Shaping Rio Salado

Join the Rio Salado Citizens Advisory Committee to add your input into Phoenix Rio Salado. The meetings are held at the Travis L. Williams Family Service Center, 4732 S. Central Avenue, Phoenix, from 3-5 p.m. They will meet:

-  May 17

-  July 19

-  September 20

-  November 15

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