Dragonfly Festival honors Tucson's Santa Cruz River Restoration

Tucked behind a vacant dirt lot, houses, and urban ranches in Menlo Park, a quiet neighborhood in downtown Tucson, lies the Heritage Project Reach of the Santa Cruz River.

The site is where treated wastewater flows through an outfall, or concrete pipe into the riverbed.

Continue reading AZPM's story of how the Dragonfly Festival was established to celebrate the incredible return of dragonflies and damselflies to the Santa Cruz River.