AZ-Lincoln+Park--Atturbury+Wash

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=Lincoln Park= =Atturbury Wash= Tucson, Arizona 85730 Atturbury Wash (Tucson Audubon Society) webpage

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Lincoln Park--Atturbury Wash
Coordinates: 32.1740142, -110.8135986 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

About Atturbury Wash
Atturbury Wash is located on the east side of Tucson and is a tributary of Pantano Wash. Our project area is in the part of the wash in Lincoln Regional Park. Many washes in Tucson have lost their natural vegetation and hydrology due to development on their floodplains, but Atturbury is largely undeveloped and has a wonderful, wide floodplain filled with dense riparian vegetation. This vegetation (netleaf hackberry, mesquite, blue palo verde, desert hackberry, graythorn, condalia, etc.) is kept alive exclusively by rainwater and stormwater (groundwater here is too deep for roots to reach it).

Stormwater flows occur mostly during heavy summer thundershowers. Historically, it would have spilled out of the shallow wash bed and spread across the floodplain, flowing slowly and infiltrating into the ground. However, erosion--originating upstream in Fred Enke Golf Course--have resulted in deepening of the main wash channel and capture of much of the stormwater that flowed across the floodplain. This caused most of the stormwaters to flow fast and deep, leaving the site quickly and has resulted in the die-off of some of the vegetation. From Atturbury Wash (Tucson Audubon Society) webpage

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