Meeting Time
Wednesday 7PM
Project Description
EWB Shonto Irrigation aims to reduce the erosion caused by a river that runs through a canyon in the Shonto community and is adjacent to their Chapter House. The erosion causes two main issues. First, the lowering riverbed limits the height of the surrounding water table as a water table can only be so high above a riverbed before it starts losing groundwater to the stream at a faster rate than it can be replenished. Second, a rapidly eroding river is often shaped in a way that increases water flow rates and encourages more erosion. Although erosion cannot be stopped altogether, the team plans to improve the river conditions through natural solutions such as revegetation and energy-dissipating structures.