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(June 1968). The gaging station at Lochiel measures flow in the
Santa Cruz River before it enters Mexico. The river winds through
the broad San Rafael Valley, a grassland, and the shallow channel
had scattered cottonwood trees along it in 1968. This upstream view
shows the gaging station and the low-water control (R.L.T., no number). |
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| (October 8, 2000). The channel has meandered to the
left despite a grade-control structure just downstream from the bridge.
Cottonwoods have grown up throughout the view, and no woody non-native
riparian species are present. The bed sediment in the reach has coarsened,
increasing channel roughness (Dominic Oldershaw, Stake 1953).
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