Regulators Doing ‘Basin Sweep’ Of Pinal Active Management Area
A map of the five active management areas in central Arizona where groundwater pumping is regulated./Arizona Department of Water Resources
Groundwater regulators are in the middle of what’s called a “basin sweep” of the Pinal Active Management Area (AMA). The data will contribute to modeling of the groundwater levels in that part of the state.
It’s just one data point in monitoring the aquifer, according the the Arizona Department of Water Resources.
“We can’t just cut away and look under the ground and see where the water table is,” said Jeff Inwood, chief hydrologist at the Arizona Department of Water Resources. “We have points that we can get data about and we can try to infer spatially based on those data points.”
