 | Broadway-Pantano WQARF Project. Landscape architecture services were provided for
properties used in the clean up of groundwater contamination funded under
the Arizona State Environmental Superfund. The system consists of two
pumping wells, a water treatment facility and two injection wells. A
multi-agency technical team of City, County, and the Arizona Department of
Environmental Quality (ADEQ) staff developed the project with the
engineering consultant. The role of The Acacia Group was to enhance the
three well sites. A wall concept and a landscape plan were developed to
mitigate the visual impact of the water treatment facility near St. Joseph's
Hospital east of the Wilmot Library. A Well Site and Injection Well Site
Landscape Plan were designed using decorative fences, stone masonry
pilasters, native mesquite and palo verde trees, desert flower seeding and
desert riparian shrubs for neighborhood sites near existing residences,
Alamo Wash channel, alleys and streets. City of Tucson Native Plant
Preservation Ordinance and Watercourse Amenities, Safety and Habitat
Ordinance (WASHO) compliance work was also completed for the three well
sites and pipeline route. Tucson, Arizona.
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| Northeast "E" Zone Reservoir. The firm carried out a native plant inventory for the
Tucson Water Department to meet the State of Arizona Native Plant Law and
Pima County NPPO requirements. Three hundred eighty eight (388) Giant
Saguaros were inventoried and the density and types of native vegetation
were identified by transect analysis in order to develop an exact template
for revegetating a 2-acre fill slope that is downhill from the 5-million
gallon water storage tank. The firm also designed the reconstruction and
revegetation of a natural wash that occurs on the site. Pima County,
Arizona.
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| Old Nogales Highway Native Plant
Preservation Ordinance (NPPO). The
firm completed a native plant inventory and report, monitored plant
protection, clearing, and excavation. Tucson, Arizona.
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| Ironwood Canyon.
The firm carried out a native plant inventory for this 67-lot subdivision of
one-acre home lots per the requirements of the Arizona Native Plant Law and
the town of Oro Valley. Native trees were salvaged, at the direction of The
Acacia Group, by using the tree spading method. The trees were used in
revegetation plans and as accent plants at the entry features of the
subdivision, 1996. Oro Valley, Arizona.
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| Diamond Shamrock Site.
SWC Cortaro Farms and Thornydale Roads. The firm was
hired by a Tucson builder to monitor the workmanship of the native tree
salvage company according to another firm's specifications and the native
plant salvage industry standards. Eleven large trees were salvaged by the
side-boxing method and later replanted, 1996. Pima County, Arizona.
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| CAP Water Treatment Plant. The
firm completed an environmental assessment, vegetation and wildlife habitat
analysis of the site; developed a native plant salvaging program; and
developed landscape and desert revegetation plans for the first phase of the
240-acre Central Arizona Project treatment Plant site. Tucson, Arizona.
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| CAP Northwest, East, and Silverbell
Pipelines. The firm carried
out an inventory of existing salvageable native plants and developed desert
revegetation plans for approximately 7 miles of CAP water transmission lines
adjacent to several roadways. Tucson, Arizona.
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| CAP Clearwell Reservoir. The
firm carried out a native plant inventory and developed ecologically
sensitive desert revegetation plans for the dam face of the Clearwell
Reservoir, the terminus of the Central Arizona Project. Tucson, Arizona.
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| Escalante Reservoir and Pump Site. The Acacia Group developed
landscape, desert revegetation and irrigation plans for this 10 million
gallon Tucson Water reservoir on a 2.5-acre site. Pima County, Arizona.
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| Houghton Road Reservoir and Pump Site. The Acacia Group
developed landscape, desert revegetation and irrigation plans for this 4.5
million gallon Tucson Water reservoir and pump site for reclaimed water on a
5.2-acre site. Pima County, Arizona.
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| Tucson Campbell F Zone Reservoir. The firm developed a site
plan, landscape and irrigation plans for this unique 2 million gallon Tucson
Water reservoir on private residential property that features a tennis court
located on top of the in-ground reservoir.
Pima County, Arizona.
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| Ocotillo Booster Pump Site. The
firm completed a site inventory for the purpose of salvaging large mesquite
trees on the site and landscape and irrigation plans. Tucson, Arizona.
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| Clearwell Reservoir Access Road
Mitigation. The firm prepared a
natural resource, vegetation and wildlife inventory report and environmental
mitigation plan for a one-mile access road to the reservoir. The road is
located adjacent to a designated Environmental Resource Zone
that requires 100% of the disturbed landscape to be replaced as it existed
prior to the road construction. Tucson, Arizona.
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| Portofino Apartment Project, La Paloma
Planned Community. The
firm was engaged to carry out a re-evaluation of approximately 300 Giant
Saguaros on one of the planning blocks at La Paloma where the Saguaros were
inventoried and evaluated earlier in 1981. The project gave the firm a
unique opportunity to study the changes in health and the growth habits of
the saguaros over a 15-year time span. The firm developed a salvage and
preservation plan for the Giant Saguaros, 1996. Tucson, Arizona.
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| The Alameda at Santa Cruz Powercenter
and Home Depot Outlet, I-10 and Irvington Road.
The firm carried out a native plant survey and developed a
salvage plan for 50 native trees on this site. The firm coordinated the
salvaging and relocating of the native trees by the tree spade method. The
budget was $130,000 for salvage, landscape and irrigation construction,
1995. Tucson, Arizona.
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| Paseo Tomayo Reservoir
in the Alta Vista Planned Residential Community. The
firm carried out a native plant inventory for the Tucson Water Department to
meet the State of Arizona Native Plant Law and Pima County requirements.
Thirty two Giant Saguaros and 14 native trees were salvaged as a part of the
work. A site-specific revegetation plan was prepared using the native plant
inventory, 1995. Pima County, Arizona.
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| ABCO/Walgreens Desert Market and
Neighborhood Shopping Center at the
Route 89 entrance to Rancho Vistoso. The firm carried
out a native tree inventory for the specific purposes of meeting the salvage
requirements of the Town of Oro Valley, Arizona. The firm monitored the
contract to salvage the trees by tree spading. The landscape plan included a
unique use of Foothill Palo Verde trees as parking lot island trees. These
trees were provided as field-grown side-boxed specimen trees at 36" box
size, 1995. Pima County, Arizona.
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| Thornydale Road, La Cholla to Magee. The
firm inventoried saguaros, ironwoods and other native vegetation as part of
the landscape services provided on the $8.5 million road widening project.
The inventory and recommended salvage plans conformed with the Pima County
Native Plant Preservation Ordinance. The inventory work was completed in
1999. Pima County, Arizona.
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| Tovrea Castle. Walt
Rogers of The Acacia Group was called upon as a Giant Saguaro expert to
inspect over 180 Giant Saguaros on this unique historic site. The
saguaros were planted in 1930 by the original developer of the site which is
now a historic landmark. Rogers developed preservation and
rehabilitation guidelines for the Saguaros which are almost all in a very
unhealthy condition, 1992. Phoenix, Arizona.
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| Irvington Road, Mission Rd. to Camino De
Oeste, Pima County DOT FCD. The firm
carried out a native plant inventory of over 200 Giant Saguaros and prepared
landscape revegetation plans and Construction Documents, 1992. Pima County, Arizona.
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| Smittys Neighborhood Shopping Center,
La Canada Blvd. The firm carried out a native plant
survey, developed a plant salvage program and prepared landscaping and
revegetation plans for this project, 1991. Oro Valley, Arizona.
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| Santa Cruz County Park, Sgt. Manuel H.
Tapia Recreational Trail. The firm was instrumental in locating the park trail so that native
mesquite trees were preserved in place. Approximately 60 Ocotillo plants
were salvaged for replanting in the native revegetation program which was
carried out by seeding of native grasses and wild flowers, 1990. Nogales,
Arizona.
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| Picacho Peak State Park. The firm carried out an
inventory and evaluation of 288 Giant Saguaros as part of the planning and
design of 4.2 miles of park roadway improvements and the development of
three RV campsites and other day-use parking facilities. The firm monitored
the Saguaro salvage and relocation operations and prepared desert
revegetation plans for the project, 1990. Pinal County,
Arizona.
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| La Paloma Planned Residential Community.
The firm
carried out an inventory and evaluation of the health and transplantability
of 8,056 Giant Saguaros on this site. The inventory and tracking system was
required by the rezoning conditions for the project. It was the first
large-scale inventory of its kind in Pima County. The firm received a
national award from the American Society of Landscape Architects for the
inventory carried out in 1980-81.
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