San Pedro River at Charleston (09471000), circa 1930
Photographer unknown, 1441, courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey
This downstream view shows channel conditions at the San Pedro
River gaging station at Charleston. The gaging station is just upstream from
a little granite narrows, which provides a stable channel cross section. The
channel is wide with little low floodplain development, and the only riparian
vegetation present near the bottom of the channel are low shrubs. Most of
the riparian plants in this view are mesquite, although a cottonwood is present
in the left foreground.
