Shared-Use Path at Indian School
City of Scottsdale, AZ
This shared-use pathway is located within the Indian Bend Wash Floodway; near the intersection of Hayden Road and Camelback Road. New improvements to the San Francisco Giants training complex required the pathway to be realigned around the new facilities to maintain a contiguous pathway system within Indian Bend Wash. An existing low flow channel/irrigation delivery swale ran adjacent to the pathway’s alignment and the hydraulics of the designated FEMA floodway restricted elevation changes to the topography, both of which created challenges to the design. The low flow channel was piped to prevent irrigation and/or nuisance water from flowing over the path and to eliminate multiple pathway/swale culvert crossings. The pathway’s profile was carefully designed to not affect the floodway hydraulics while maintaining ADA accessible grades.