The Lower Silver Creek Watershed Alliance (AZ) made presentations to the Snowflake and Taylor town councils, asking the towns to support a request to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to help find a solution for the flooding problems along the Silver Creek. The watershed covers approximately 600,000 acres, most of which is upstream from Taylor and Snowflake. Over the past half century there have been a number of dams, hold ponds, irrigation diversions and levies built to capture and use runoff, and to control flooding.  He noted that these, along with climate changes, have resulted in low flows within the Silver Creek and its tributaries, causing a deterioration of the ecosystem within the creek channel, which, in turn, compounds the potential for catastrophic flooding.

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