MOHAVE COUNTY — The Mohave County Flood Control District is purchasing public land in west Kingman to develop property-protective water detention basins. Flood Control District Engineer Randy Gremlich offered the only bid for the property during a Jan. 28 auction that the Arizona State Land Department conducted in Kingman.
Gremlich submitted the minimum bid of $247,600, the appraised value of the two parcels totaling almost 20-acres. He said a state grant and flood district funds will be used for the acquisition.
purchased by the Mohave County Flood Control District for water retention basin projects.
Gremlich said the Procurement Department will be working to secure a private sector contractor to build the Riata and Crestwood detentions basins.
“We expect to put them out to bid in the next couple of weeks,” he said. He said the expectation is that the basins will be working to capture water by late summer or early fall.
“The water goes into the basins and we build a little embankment with a small pipe coming out,” Gremlich explained. “The big flows go in and rather than having the large flows go through the downstream neighbors, the extra water gets stored there. And then it gets released a little at a time through the small outlet pipe at a rate that the downstream neighborhoods can handle.”
Gremlich said some of the resource will percolate downward, partially recharging groundwater.
