Feds eye Lower Santa Cruz River diversion plan

TUCSON, Ariz. — The federal government is proposing to divert some of the Lower Santa Cruz River’s effluent supply onto neighboring farmland to reduce groundwater pumping for the river’s willow trees. The Arizona Daily Star reports (http://goo.gl/aWyHV1) the diversion would remove only about 15 percent of the effluent that runs down the Santa Cruz. But […]