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Chapter 11 BILL WILLIAMS RIVER WATERSHED U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Arizona Game and Fish Department Bill Williams River Watershed Chapter 11 BILL WILLIAMS RIVER WATERSHED Chapter 11 Bill Williams River Watershed ............................................................................... 11-1 Santa Maria Sub-Watershed .................................................................................................. 11-7 Santa Maria Complex ........................................................................................................ 11-9 Bass Tank ....................................................................................................................... 11-9 Blue Tank ..................................................................................................................... 11-15 Granite Mountain #1 Tank ........................................................................................... 11-20 Granite Mountain #2 Tank ........................................................................................... 11-25 Santa Maria Complex Analysis ....................................................................................... 11-29 Big Sandy River Sub-Watershed ......................................................................................... 11-40 Burro Creek Complex ...................................................................................................... 11-40 Carter Tank .................................................................................................................. 11-44 Antelope Tank .............................................................................................................. 11-49 Harmon Tank #2 .......................................................................................................... 11-52 Bar 37 Tank.................................................................................................................. 11-54 Little Antelope Tank .................................................................................................... 11-58 McElhaney Tank .......................................................................................................... 11-61 Harman Tank ............................................................................................................... 11-66 Stubb’s Tank ................................................................................................................ 11-69 Swale Tank................................................................................................................... 11-74 Coors Lake ................................................................................................................... 11-78 Burro Creek Complex Analysis ....................................................................................... 11-86 Bill Williams River Watershed Analysis ................................................................................. 11-93 Biological Assessment of the Arizona Game and Fish Department’s January 2011 Statewide and Urban Fisheries Stocking Program 11-1 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Arizona Game and Fish Department Bill Williams River Watershed List of Figures Figure 1. Bill Williams Watershed. ........................................................................................... 11-6 Figure 2. Land ownership in the Bill Williams Watershed. ...................................................... 11-7 Figure 3. Overview of the Santa Maria River Sub-Watershed, showing points of available fish collection data from the Kansas State Aquatic GAP database. .............................. 11-9 Figure 4.Bass Tank on Loco Creek............................................................................................ 11-9 Figure 5. Bass Tank imagery on Loco Creek .......................................................................... 11-10 Figure 6. Bass Tank, July 2002. ............................................................................................... 11-11 Figure 7. Bass Tank photograph. ............................................................................................. 11-11 Figure 8. Loco Creek below Blue Tank. .................................................................................. 11-13 Figure 9. Loco Creek below Boundary Spring. ....................................................................... 11-14 Figure 10. Blue Tank ............................................................................................................... 11-16 Figure 11. Berm dam at Blue Tank. Water spills to the left of the Cottonwood trees............. 11-17 Figure 12. Blue Tank in 2007. ................................................................................................. 11-17 Figure 13. Overview map of Granite Mountain 1.................................................................... 11-21 Figure 14. Granite Mountain 1 with tributaries. ...................................................................... 11-22 Figure 15. Annual peak flows at Santa Maria River near Bagdad........................................... 11-24 Figure 16. Granite Mountain 2 along Little Shipp Wash......................................................... 11-26 Figure 17. Granite Mountain 2 imagery .................................................................................. 11-27 Figure 18. Sampling sites on Sycamore Creek May 6-8, 2009. Mouth of Loco Creek is in upper right hand portion of map. ................................................................................. 11-33 Figure 19. Sample site on Loco Creek where no fish were collected in May 7, 2009. ........... 11-34 Figure 20. Overview map of the Bill Williams watershed. ..................................................... 11-41 Figure 21. Overview map of the Burro Creek watershed. ....................................................... 11-43 Figure 22. Overview of stock tanks in Pine Creek watershed. ................................................ 11-45 Figure 23. Carter Tank, July 2002. .......................................................................................... 11-46 Figure 24. Antelope Tank, July 2002....................................................................................... 11-49 Figure 25. Harmon Tank #2, July 2002. .................................................................................. 11-52 Figure 26. Bar 37 Tank, July 2002. ......................................................................................... 11-55 Figure 27. Little Antelope Tank, August 2007. ....................................................................... 11-58 Figure 28. McElhaney Tank, August 2007. ............................................................................. 11-62 Figure 29. Yolo Ranch along Boulder Creek........................................................................... 11-65 Figure 30. Harman Tank, August 2007. .................................................................................. 11-67 Figure 31. Stubb’s Tank, June 2006. ....................................................................................... 11-70 Figure 32. Stubb’s Tank photograph. ..................................................................................... 11-71 Figure 33. Breech at Stubb’s Dam, October 2007. .................................................................. 11-72 Figure 34. Stubb’s Dam breech looking downstream, October 2007. ..................................... 11-72 Figure 35. Swale Tank, October 2004. .................................................................................... 11-74 Figure 36. Swale and Slaughter Tanks .................................................................................... 11-77 Figure 37. Coors Lake, May 2007. .......................................................................................... 11-79 Figure 38. Coors Lake and ephemeral tributaries to Boulder Creek ....................................... 11-83 Figure 39. Cyprus Bagdad Mining Company operations near Coors Lake ............................. 11-85 Figure 40. Vertical Drop on Pine Creek UTM 12S 310728E 3858237N, June 2008. ............. 11-88 Biological Assessment of the Arizona Game and Fish Department’s January 2011 Statewide and Urban Fisheries Stocking Program 11-2 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Arizona Game and Fish Department Bill Williams River Watershed Figure 41. Surface elevation of Alamo Lake over time, 1968 to present (Brown and Jacobson 2007a). .......................................................................................................... 11-94 Figure 42. USGS gauge data for peak discharge below Alamo Dam before and after dam construction completed in July 1968. .......................................................................... 11-95 List of Tables Table 1. Stocking history at Bass Tank. .................................................................................. 11-12 Table 2. Surveys at Bass Tank by year, method, species, number caught, and lengths (in mm). ............................................................................................................................. 11-15 Table 3. Stocking History for Blue Tank. ................................................................................ 11-18 Table 4. Surveys at Blue Tank by year, method, species, number caught, and lengths (in mm). ............................................................................................................................. 11-19 Table
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