[ADEQ Media] ADEQ Director Owens Announces $32, 289 Grant for Water Quality Project in Mingus Mountain, Yavapai County, to Prevent Pollution of the Upper Agua Fria Watershed

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PHOENIX - (July 24, 2008) - Arizona Department of Environmental Quality
Director Steve Owens announced today that the agency is granting $32,289
to Mingus Springs Camp & Outdoor Learning Center for water quality
improvement projects in Yavapai County.  

 

The learning center is located on Mingus Mountain, near U.S. 89A,
between Cottonwood and Prescott.  

 

The project will help protect the headwaters of Ash Creek on the Upper
Agua Fria watershed from water pollution caused by increased prescribed
burning, illegal off-road vehicles, a planned timber sale, and traffic
of up to 100 logging trucks a week.    

 

To control erosion threats to the waters, the project will install
sediment traps and retaining walls, re-seed the area with vegetation,
close illegal roads and off-highway vehicle trails, and improve the main
road.  

 

"We are pleased to support this important local effort to protect a
critical drainage area for the Upper Agua Fria watershed," Director
Owens said.  "A number of steps need to be taken to help prevent runoff
and further pollution of the watershed."  

 

The grant is funded with federal dollars provided to ADEQ under the
Clean Water Act.  

 

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"News media interested in additional information on this or any other
topic concerning the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality should
contact the Office of Communications at (602) 771-2215 or via email at
communications@azdeq.gov."

 

 

 

 

 

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