By Scott Schumaker | Mesa Tribune
The threat to reservoirs from long-term drought and high temperatures has been in the news in recent years, but the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is keeping watch over a different type of threat to the Valley’s water system: earthquakes.
In April, Tonto National Forest officials signed off on a plan for geologists with the bureau’s Dam Safety Office to study a set of faults along the Beeline Highway that researchers believe could pose a risk to the Salt River dams.
