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ur lives in the desert revolve around water, a precious commodity that’s becoming increasingly scarce. Water flows in less than 10 percent of Arizona’s streams as a result of dams, diversions, and groundwater pumping. Decreased stream flow also effects associated ecologically valuable riparian habitats. But as these stretches of lush green vegetation diminish, another water feature has increased around the state. Resorts and parks have created numerous artificial water slides and lazy rivers. These popular recreational facilities have a historical tie to water flumes used during Territorial days in the development of power, mining, and irrigation. Flumes conveyed water by gravity flow along metal or wooden troughs elevated on trestles. One flume located along Fossil Creek, that supplied the Childs-Irving power plants, had an oversized impact on Arizona. Hydroelectric generation at this location northwest of Payson was the brainchild of rancher Lew Turner, who envisioned sellten
ing the power to mines in Jerome and elsewhere in Yavapai County. The site at Fossil Springs was ideal for generating electricity because of the steep gradient to the Verde River and the constant flow of 322 gallons per second from the spring.
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Turner purchased the water rights to Fossil Creek in 1900. The Arizona Power Company (TAPCO), later acquired by APS, began construction of the Childs Power Plant in 1908, hauling material 40 miles from the nearest railhead in Mayer. A dam was constructed that supplied water to a wooden flume (later replaced by steel), elevated above the terrain on wooden trestles to the Childs Power Plant near the Verde River. In 1915, the Irving Power Plant was built on Fossil Creek upstream of the Childs facility, along with Stehr Lake, a backup water supply for the Childs Power Plant.
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The two plants produced 4.2 megawatts of electrical power. In comparison, the Solana Solar Generating Station near Gila Bend produces 280 MW, the natural-gas-fueled Gila River Generating Station produces 2,200 MW, and Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station produces 3,942 MW. After World War I, demand for metals ebbed along with the mines’ needs for power. Electrical lines were built from the power plants to Phoenix, and supplied the majority of households in the city. By the 1930s, the plants delivered energy to Flagstaff, Wickenburg, Ash Fork, and Seligman. The Childs-Irving power plants came up for relicensing by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in 1994. By then, the plants were 0.01 percent of APS’s production. In 1999, the utility made the decision to shut down the plants and return the flow to Fossil Creek. Both plants closed in 2005; the decommissioning process took three years. Fourteen miles of infrastructure, including the Fossil Springs Dam, 630 arizcc.com
tons of flume wood, 1,200 tons of flume steel and pipe, and 1,300 cubic yards of concrete were removed, according to the APS website. Fossil Creek was declared a Wild and Scenic River in 2008, and is now so popular that the U.S. Forest Service has a reservation system to limit visitors. Rich calcium-carbonate water combines with dissolved carbon dioxide to precipitate white deposits called travertine, which create picturesque pools and falls. The restored streambed is home to rare native fish including the headwater chub, roundtail chub, speckled dace, longfin dace, desert sucker, and Sonora sucker. Fossil Creek was the first significant stretch of river that was restored to its natural state in Arizona. Ed Fox, APS vice president, indicated the reason. “It is simply the right business decision and the right environmental decision to decommission Childs-Irving and reclaim the unique riparian
resource that surrounds Fossil Creek,” he told the Arizona Republic in 1999. Lost in the transition is the flume’s Territorial-era charm, which for decades was a badge of courage for thrill seekers. The dare devils would lift the sheet-metal covers off the flume below the Irving Power Plant and ride it like a water slide into Stehr Lake. No worries, they have plenty of safer water slide options these days.
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