Senate Committee Approves $20M for Pinal Wells
The proposal was revived after being killed in the House.
Farmers in Pinal County who face losing much of their irrigation water have new hope that the state will help them replace some of it.
Some Pinal County farmers might lose irrigation water under a multistate plan to use less from the Colorado River. The Senate Appropriations Committee this week approved a bill to spend $20 million on groundwater wells to replace some of the lost water, in addition to other subsidies under the drought plan.
Attorney Dan Jones says it’s something that rural irrigation districts could not afford to do on their own.