Groundwater-replenishment costs lowering for many Queen Creek property tax bills
by Richard H. Dyer | Queen Creek Independent
The Town of Queen Creek operates a water system that serves nearly 30,000 customers and extends outside of the Queen Creek town limits, providing services to residents and non-residents. (Independent Newsmedia/Arianna Grainey)
Beginning in fiscal year 2020-21, Queen Creek water customers who were paying $721 an acre-foot for groundwater-replenishment costs in their property-tax bills will be paying approximately $300 an acre-foot.
An acre-foot is a common measurement for water and is 325,851 gallons — or enough water to cover an acre of land, about the size of a football field and 1 foot deep — according to azwater.gov.
The policy change affects the amounts paid by utility customers and property owners in subdivisions developed between 1996 and 2003, Finance Director Scott McCarty and Utilities Director Paul Gardner said in a memo to Queen Creek Town Council.
