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Greens Peak splendor (Forest Service Photo, from https://www.fs.usda.gov/asnf)
The Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests’ Lakeside Ranger District plans to conduct a prescribed burn of a slash pile between Monday, March 8, and Wednesday, March 31, 2021, as conditions allow.
Slash is the accumulation of limbs, leaves, pine needles and miscellaneous fuel left by natural debris and forest management activities, such as thinning, pruning, and timber harvesting. Slash piles are created by gathering these materials into manageable, isolated piles that can be burned in a safe manner to reduce fire hazards.
The prescribed burn, located within the Lakeside Administration Site, will require one day of ignitions on a single large pile, which is approximately 1-acre of land. Fire crews will be on scene from ignition until there is no longer a threat of escape from the project boundaries. Prescribed fire, also known as RX, operations are subject to canc
March 8, 2021
The waters of Sabino Creek in Tucson flow intermittently. It’s currently on the state’s draft list of protected surface waters. (Photo by Ariana Brocious/Arizona Public Media)
Since June, a large proportion of Arizona’s rivers, lakes and streams have not been protected by the Clean Water Act, the result of changes to federal rules by the Trump administration in 2019. The state had relied on the landmark law to keep its arid streams free of pollution.
But after the federal protections were limited, Arizona set to work on its own set of surface-water quality standards.
For the past two years, the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality has been working to craft the new rules with public input. Trevor Baggiore, director of the agency’s water quality division, said a bill currently moving through the Legislature will help fill the regulatory gap.
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Officials grill water utility over response to earlier Luke AFB spill Luke Air Force Base recently alerted nearby residents to the presence of chemicals PFOA and PFOS, which were used in base firefighting for decades, in their drinking water. The base is providing bottled water and working on solutions with local utilities, but the Arizona Corporation Commission wanted to know why some companies were not doing more. (Source: U.S. Air Force) By Haleigh Kochanski | March 4, 2021 at 12:59 PM MST - Updated March 4 at 12:59 PM
WASHINGTON – The Arizona Corporation Commission grilled a West Valley water company Wednesday, March 3, asking why it did not respond more aggressively after chemical agents were discovered in water from its wells five years ago.