Salt River Near Chrysotile (09497500), June 25, 1964
(Raymond M. Turner) The water is low (about 97 ft3/s), exposing the bedrock
that forms the channel bed and the low-water control downstream from the gaging
station. In the intervening 29 years, three floods with peaks of greater than
50,000 ft3/s passed through this reach. Tamarisk is interspersed
with the native shrubs on the floodplain, and tamarisk lines the previously
denuded banks on river left. Palm trees (lower right), which are not native
to this area, were planted as part of a roadside park well before this photograph
was taken. The roadcut on the skyline has been widened.
