Bill Would Ban Water Transfers From River Communities To Central Arizona
Queen Creek is trying to buy an annual entitlement to 2,083.1 acre-feet of Colorado River water from a farming and investment company that owns land in Cibola Valley, in far west La Paz County.
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Under a new bill in the Arizona state Legislature, some water tied to land that borders the Colorado River could not be transferred into central Arizona.
It comes after recent proposals to do just that.
Most recently, the company GSC Farm wants to sell about 2,000 acre-feet of Colorado River water to the Town of Queen Creek. (An acre-foot is roughly what a family of four uses in one year.)
