Marisol Reyes.

Background

Marisol grew up in Sam Hughes; her grandmother kept a Sonoran-style courtyard garden at East Helen Street and an unreliable evaporative cooler that Marisol's father, an HVAC contractor, kept alive into the late 1990s. She attended Tucson High Magnet (class of 2006), worked summers in her father's shop, and entered the Pima Community College plumbing program in 2009 after a brief detour into a journalism BA she didn't finish.

Apprenticeship under Tucson Plumbing Co. (a now-closed shop on East 22nd Street) ran 2012–2015. She sat the AZ ROC master plumber exam in December 2015 on her first attempt. Worked another two years as a senior journeyman before the August 2017 site walk that produced our origin story (the basin in her own back yard).

Credentials

AZ ROC R-37R

Master Plumber, Class A · since December 2015 · license #142882-MR (held under sole-prop), reissued under #347291 (Ciénega Watershed Plumbing) in 2018.

UA Local 469

Plumbers & Steamfitters journeyman card · 2014.

WMG installer training

Watershed Management Group co-op installer cohort · January–March 2018.

Brad Lancaster workshops

Six Saturdays · September–October 2017 · Living Lab, East Speedway.

Pima College Plumbing

Guest instructor · spring 2024, fall 2024, spring 2026.

What she does

Marisol does the site walks (every site walk; she has not delegated this in eight years), draws the parti by hand, writes the proposal, and files the rebate paperwork on completion. She is on every job site at least twice and on the larger jobs every day. She holds the master license under which all five subsystems are pulled.

What she does not do: payroll (Sandra), telemetry build-out (June), trench excavation (Antón). The crew is structured so that Marisol is on the wet-work side and not the operations side; it works because Sandra runs operations beautifully and June builds the dashboards better than Marisol could.

Elsewhere

Marisol has guest-taught three semesters at Pima Community College's plumbing program. She is on the volunteer roster of Tucson Clean & Beautiful's tree-planting crew. She rides her bike to the Bay 3 yard most days from her house in Sam Hughes — a 20-minute commute on the Aviation Greenway.