City Council previously voted to cut back 20% of its annual CAP water purchase but decided to buy its entire allocation after a lack of buy-in from other stakeholders.
Nicole Ludden Tucson will order its full allotment of Central Arizona Project water next year despite previously indicating it would cut back on its annual water purchase as part of a collaborative effort to keep more water in Lake Mead amid dire conditions facing the reservoir.
People are also reading… On July 12, City Council authorized the mayor and city manager to seek system conservation agreements with the federal government and the CAP with contingencies for the city to cut back on its CAP purchase.
The council voted unanimously to allow city officials to negotiate a 50-50 split of those operating costs, which may make the CAP more agreeable to the city’s other terms, Avery indicated. He will have a better idea of what the cost to the city would be after the CAP’s Sept. 1 board meeting. Kozachik, the sole dissenting vote, took a stance that the city should reduce its CAP water intake even without assurances from other states and let the Bureau of Reclamation handle mandatory cuts for other Colorado River water users.
The Gila River Indian Community also reversed course on its intentions to leave more water in Lake Mead and announced it would instead store its CAP allocation underground, according to an Aug. 16 news release from tribal Governor Stephen Roe Lewis. The seven states who rely on the river’s water passed the Aug. 16 deadline given by the bureau to come up with a plan to reduce their river water use by up to 28% by 2023. The bureau held off on any larger, longer-term cuts in water deliveries while it and the Colorado River Basin states continue to negotiate in future months.
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