Documents

Our bylaws

Bureau of Reclamation WaterSmart Grant and Interim Reports (2 links directly below)—This watershed plan created the Watershed Alliance for the Friends of the Rio de Flag (WARF). This is the guiding document for the Friends of the Rio de Flag.

Rio de Flag Watershed Plan 2023

Interim Report Eight_210429_Final_sm

Rio de Flag Flood Control Project

• ACE Flooding along the Rio de Flag (from “Rio de Flag and Sinclair Wash.” U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles, Calif. Sept 1975)

• ACE Reconnaissance Report – May 1997 (Warning: 186MB)

• ACE 100-year floodplain map

• ACE Rio de Flag Feasibility Report and Final Environmental Impact Statement – Sept 2000

• ACE Final Environmental Impact Statement – Sept 2000

• COF open and closed channel section concept plan – Sept 2005

• ACE Value Engineering (VE) Study Report, January 2010

• ACE Priority Alternatives Descriptions and Cost Summary Report, March 2010

• COF summary of Rio de Flag Flood Control Project for March 2013 Washington DC legislative trip

• COF Rio de Flag Greenway concept drawing – closed channel

• COF Rio de Flag Greenway concept drawing – open channel

• COF Rio de Flag Flood Control Council Update Powerpoint – Feb 26 2013

• COF Rio de Flag Project phase & alignment map, Feb 7 2013

• FOR Important City owned open space parcels along the Rio de Flag – July 2010

• FOR Important privately owned open space parcels along the Rio de Flag – November 2010

• FOR Rio de Flag Main Stem Channel Length Data – by Collis Lovely

• Rio de Flag Flood Control Powerpoint presentation to City Council – June 3 2014

• Rio de Flag Flood Control Design Concept Project Report (Final Draft – May 28 2014 – Warning: 26MB)

• Surface water hydrology Flagstaff Arizona 2008-2019

• Flagstaff Area Stream Fluvial Geomorphology Gaged Site Analysis

Leroux Springs

• Beale, Lt. Edward F., Wagon Road from Fort Defiance to the Colorado River. House of Representatives Executive Document No. 124, 35th Congress, 1st Session, 1858:51 [title page & pg 51].

• Cline, P. They Came to the Mountain: The Story of Flagstaff’s Beginnings, Northland Press,1976 [selected pages re Leroux Springs].

• Coody, Robert A., Historic Fort Valley Arizona: An Archaeological Survey and Historic overview, pg. 30-35

• Friends of the Rio de Flag, Google map with hiking directions to Leroux Springs.

• Holm, Richard F., Leroux Springs geology map, from Geologic Map of San Francisco Mountain, Elden Mountain, and Dry Lake Hills, Coconino County, Arizona, 1988.

• Holm, Richard F., (op cit), Leroux Springs geology elevation map.

• McDougall, M. M. (ed.), Through Indian Country to California: John P. Sherburne’s Diary of the Whipple Expedition, 1853-1854, Stanford University Press, 1988 [title page and pgs 148-155].

• Monroe, Stephen, Big Leroux Spring flow data- 2004-2013.

• Monroe, Stephen, Big Leroux Spring flow & climate data- 2003-2013.

• Monroe, Stephen. et al., 2011, Big Leroux Spring [white paper and cover letter to U.S. Forest Service requesting return of surface flow to Big Leroux Spring].

• Monroe, Stephen. et al., Big Leroux Spring Poster, 2013.

• Mullhousen drawing of San Francisco Peaks from Leroux Springs area, 1853.

• Olberding, S.D., Fort Valley Then and Now: A Look at an Arizona Settlement,
  Fort Valley Publishing. 2002 [selected pages re Leroux Springs].

• Pattee, C.R., “Flagstaff and the Grand Canyon,” The Land of Sunshine Magazine, June, 1897, pg 125.

• Sitgreaves 1853 Report to Congress [title page and pages 10 & 11].

• Sitgreaves route map in Wallace, A. and Hevly, R. (2007) From Texas to San Diego in 1851: The Overland Journal of Dr. S. W. Woodhouse, Surgeon-Naturalist of the Sitgreaves Expedition. Lubbock, TX. Texas Tech University Press.

• USDA Forest Service, Wing Mountain Fuels Reduction and Forest Health Restoration documents.

• Whipple, A.W., Explorations for a Railway Route, Near the Thirty-fifth Parallel of Latitude, for the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. 1855 [selected pages re Leroux Springs].

Science and education

• Bezy, J.V. 2003. A Guide to the Geology of the Flagstaff Area. Arizona Geological Survey Down-to-Earth Series DTE-14, 56 p.

• Busco J, M Hill, S Lamb. pre 2025. List of plants in lower Sinclair Wash.

• Carswell, Cally. June 2015. Tree of Life in High Country News.

• Graf, C. August 2016. Reclaimed Water in Arizona: History of Use and Current Issues. PowerPoint. Arizona Department of Environmental Quality.

• Licher, Max. 2017. Report summarizing plant identification consulting work for the Flagstaff Floodplain Management Plan.  full text, and spreadsheet.

• City of Flagstaff Parks. 2014. Plant list Picture Canyon.

• Arizona Water Facts. Arizona Department of Water Resources

Misc documents

• Stream Flow Variability and Timing of a Regional Ephemeral Stream in Northern Arizona—abstract

• Friends of the Rio de Flag Fall 2009 Newsletter

• 1952 Rio de Flag Water Based Recreation and Wildlife Development Plan

• Canyon Diablo Watershed – Rapid Watershed Assessment Report June 2011

• Tucson Audubon Society. 2018. Bringing Birds Home: A guide to Enhancing Rivers, Streams and Desert Washes for Birds and Other Wildlife. Created as part of the Arizona Important Bird Areas Program.

• Tucson Audubon Society. 2018. Bringing Birds Home: A guide to Enhancing Grasslands for Birds and Other Wildlife. Created as part of the Arizona Important Bird Areas Program.

Links

• Rio de Flag: Flowing Through Timeby Bill Gaud

• Rio de Flag: Resourcesby Kent Hendrick

History

• Rio de Flag Main Stem Channel Length Data by Collis Lovely

• Climate Variation at Flagstaff, Arizona – 1950 to 2007 by Richard Hereford, USGS

• Big Leroux Spring Flow 2004-2013

• Big Leroux Spring Flow & Climate (Graph)

• Hailey 2020. Remaking the Rio de Flag 1888-2004 (thesis)

• Stone Landmarks, by Marie D. Jackson, pages 55 & 88-92

• Stone Landmarks Rio de Flag map – page 92

• Sitgreaves 1851 Expedition Report – pages 10-11 (Leroux Springs)

• Sitgreaves Route Map

• Lt. Edward F. Beale. Wagon Road from Fort Defiance to the Colorado River. House of Representatives Executive Document No. 124, 35th Congress, 1st Session, 1858:51 (Title Page)

• Beale (op cit), pg 51 (Fort Valley and Leroux Springs descriptions)

Maps

• 1878 Survey Map

• 1878 Survey Map Overlay

• 1911 USGS Topo Map

• 1901 Sanborn-Perris Map of Flagstaff

• Rio Watershed through Flagstaff – 3D

• Historic and Current Channel Alignments

• Leroux Springs geology – fromGeologic Map of San Francisco Mountain, Elden Mountain, and Dry Lake Hills, Coconino County, Arizona, by Richard F. Holm, 1988

• Leroux Springs geology – elevation map [Full citation]

Images & Presentations

• Mullhousen drawing of SF Peaks from Leroux Springs area – 1853

• Mullhousen repeat photo – 2010

• Kern lithograph –View west from SF Peaks

• Rio de Flag poster – 2010

• Rio de Flag poster – 2013

• Big Leroux Spring Poster – 2013

• Postcards from the Bottomless Pit

• Bottomless Pit presentation from Hydrologist Don Bills – 7/2013

• Water Works Part 1 – Origins Presentation by Brad Garner – 9/2013

• Water Works Part 2 – Our Water Future Presentation by Erin Young – 10/2013

• Water Works Part 3 – Water Reuse Presentation by Brad Hill – 2/2014

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