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Arizona Geology, Vol Vol 21,No.4 Investigations . Service . Information Winter1991 Geologic Insights into Flood Hazards in Piedmont Areas of Arizona by Philip A. Pearthree Arizona Geological Survey Proper managementof flood hazards inpiedmontareas ofArizona isbecoming increasinglyimportantasthe State's pop­ ulation grows and urban areas expand. In the Basin and Range Province of the western United States, piedmonts (liter­ ally, "thefoot ofthe mountains") are the low-relief, gentlyslopingplainsbetween the mountain ranges and the streams or playasthat occupy thelowestportions of \~ the valleys. ~uch o.f southern, cen:ral, ..' andwesternAnzona iscomposedofpied­ monts, and they comprise most of the developable land near the rapidly ex­ panding population centers of the State. Viewedfrom above,piedmontsofAr­ izona are complex mosaics composed of alluvial fans and stream terraces of dif­ ferent ages that record therecent geolog­ ic history of an area. Alluvial fans are generallycone-shapeddepositionalland­ forms that emanate from a discrete source and increase in width downslope; adja­ centfan surfaces may merge downslope to form a continuousalluvialapron. Allu­ Figure 1. Aerial photograph of the western piedmont of the White Tank Mountains, which shows vial fans represent periods of net aggra­ alluvial surfaces of different ages. The approximate ages of the deposits in thousands of years (ka) dation, whenlarge amounts of sediment are as follows: Y, younger than 10 ka; M2, 10 to 150 ka; MI, 150 to 800 ka; 0, older than 800 were removed from mountain areas and ka (br = bedrock). The arrows point to relatively large drainages that head in the mountains and deposited on adjacent piedmonts. The flow from right to left across the piedmont. The areas of recent alluvialjan activity (labeled AF) Quaternary Period (roughly the past 2 along these drainages are identified by extensive young deposits (Y) and distributary channel million years) has been characterizedby patterns, which consist ofstreams that branch and flow out ofa larger stream. Old, inactive alluvial repeated changes in global climate. Pe­ fans (units MI, M2, and 0) are characterized by a lighter color and tributary drainage patterns, which consist ofstreams thatflow into a larger stream. These old fans compose much ofthe piedmont riods ofalluvial-fandepositioninArizona and have been isolated from floods associated with the larger drainages for more than 10,000 years. were probably due to climate changes that increased the amount of sediment suppliedto streamsfrom mountainslopes Piedmont areas subject to active allu­ is little topographic relief to confine the and possibly decreased the capacity of vial-fanfloodingareofparticularconcern floodwaters. If development on pied­ streams to transport sediment across from a floodplain-managementperspec­ monts occurs without regard to the dis­ piedmonts (Bull, 1991). Stream terraces tive. Piedmonts inArizona are typically tributionofactive alluvialfans, lives and are steplike landforms that are typically drainedbya few relativelylarge streams inset below adjacent fan surfaces. They thatheadinadjacentmountains andmany representformer floors ofstream valleys smaller streams that head on the pied­ ALSO IN THIS ISSUE thatwereabandonedasthestreamsdown­ mont (Figure 1). Active alluvial fans Oil and Gas News 6 cut even further. Terraces thus exist in along the larger streams may be subject National Geologic-Mapping Program 7 areas wherethelong-term trendhasbeen to widespread inundation, local high­ Mt. Pinatubo 9, 10 for streams to entrench themselves into velocityflow, anddrastic changesinchan­ New AZGS Publications 11 olderdeposits. nelpositions duringfloods becausethere propertymaybe put at risk. Itis preferable and less expensive patterns may occur. If waters take a new path during a flood, tomitigate theseflood hazardsbeforeanarea is developedthan a channel that seemed insignificant can grow in size and ca­ to deal with them afterwards, when floodwaters are lapping pacity. Human alterations to natural stream systems on pied­ at doorsteps. ' montsmayhave a profoundimpactonthecourseoffloodwaterSj . The long history of stream behavior and flooding recorded ill-advised obstruction or diversion of natural channels ma. in the geology and geomorphology of piedmonts provides an cause adjacent areas to receive the brunt of floodwaters. For invaluableperspectiveonfloodplain-managementissues. Floods all of these reasons, local, State, and Federal floodplain-man­ leave physical evidence of their occurrence in the form of agement officials in the United States have come to realize the alluvial deposits. Characteristics of large floods that have importanceof adequatelydefining andmanagingfloodhazards occurred during the past few years may be reconstructed in in piedmont areas. some detail because evidence of their impact on the landscape Traditional methods of definingregulatoryfloodplains typ­ is fresh. Over hundreds or thousands of years, the impact of icallyinvolvefoursteps: (1) makingtheassumptionthatchannel individualfloodsismore difficultto resolve,butthecumulative beds and banks are fairly stable; (2) estimating the size of the effects ofmany floods are recorded in the geologyand geomor­ flood thathas a 0.01 probability of occurring in any given year phologyof a piedmont. Geologicalstudies canaddress several on a particular stream (the lOO-year flood); (3) routing the 100­ key issues: (1) How large are the extreme floods on particular yearflooddownstream usingsomepreferredhydrologic model; drainages?; (2) Whichportions ofpiedmontsareprone to flood­ and (4) determining the area thatwillbe flooded andhow deep ing, especially alluvial-fan flooding?; (3) Do the positions of the floodwaters will be at any flooded locality. These proce­ channels on alluvial fans typically change during floods?; and dures, however, are inappropriate for defining areas that are (4) What are the depths and velocities of floodwaters during prone to alluvial-fanflooding. As outlinedabove, channels on alluvial-fanfloods? alluvial fans mayor may not be stable dUring large floods. In TheArizona Geological Survey (AZGS) is engaged incoop­ addition,floodwatersmayspreadso widelythataccuratemodel­ erative efforts withlocalfloodplain-management agencies, the ing of their extent and depth is difficult. Furthermore, the University of Arizona, and the Arizona Department of Water available data for estimating the sizes of 100-year floods on Resources. Thesestudies combinegeologic investigationswith drainagesinArizona aremodestatbest; differentmethods yield more traditional hydrologic analyses to delineate flood-prone dramatically different sizes (e.g., House, 1991). areas more accurately and to understand better the flooding Hydrologists and engineers have proposed several models processes on piedmonts in Arizona. to simulate alluvial-fanflooding. Themostwidely used model is one thatis mandatedby the FederalEmergencyManagement FLOODPLAIN-MANAGEMENT ISSUES Agency (FEMA) to set flood-insurance rates. This FEMA allu­ vial-fan methodology (AFM) is based on several simplifying Theprincipalobjectiveoffloodplain-managementagenciesis assumptions aboutflow behaviorduringalluvial-fanfloods: (1) to prevent humans and their property from being exposed to floodwaters affect only part of an alluvial fan during anyone undue risks from flooding. These agencies must also maintain flood; (2) floodwaters are conveyedin one or more channels of _ credibilitywiththepersons whom they regulate andincludein a specific and predictable depth and width; and (3) these their purview only the areas that are truly at risk of being channels canform anywhere onthe alluvialfanatthebeginning flooded. Conceptsoffloodplainmanagementarefirmly rooted oforduringa flood (Dawdy, 1979; FEMA, 1985). TheAFMuses in the disciplines of hydrology and civil engineering; geologic the width of the channels that are supposed to form during a information typically has not been used in flood-hazard eval­ flood and the total width of the alluvial fan to determine 100- uations. Because flooding in pied­ mont areas may be quite complex, however, standard hydrologic or engineering methods for accurately assessing and managing flood haz­ ards are of questionable value. Crit­ ical technical issues, such as deter­ mining the extent and character of floodingonpiedmonts,cannotbeade­ quately addressed without integrat­ y inghydrologic methodsandgeologic investigations. Streamsthat cross piedmontareas ~c:& ~ in Arizona have several characteris­ Y \,1 - tics thatmake them particularlyhaz­ ~< C-/ C::;M2 M2 ardous to life and property. As is Y - \ o typicalinthedesert, piedmontstreams ~ M2 flow infrequently,lendinga false sense a ~ ..AiO)~ ~ of security to persons who live near washesoronactivealluvialfans. Large piedmontfloods are usually generat­ Figure 2. Surficial geologic maps that illustrate differences in the extent ofyoung deposits and alluvial­ edbyintenseprecipitationinadjacent fan flooding hazards on two piedmonts in Arizona. The map-unit designations are the same as those mountains. Piedmontdwellingsmay used in Figure 1; additional map units are as follows:MO, 500 to 1,000 ka alluvial fans; and Tbf, thus become flooded even if it has dissected basin-fill deposits older than 1,000 ka. (a) The southwestern piedmont of the Sierra Estrella Mountains in central Arizona is mostly covered with young alluvial deposits less than 10,000 years rainedverylittleinthoseareas. During old (map unit Y), which indicates that alluvial-fan flooding is an important process
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