Miller gives update on solutions studied by Pinal water group
by Mark Cowling | Casa Grande Dispatch
Water flows in 2017 to a Pinal County cotton farm at the base of the Sawtooth Mountains. (Photo: Arizona Farm Bureau)
Pinal County Supervisor Steve Miller, R-Casa Grande, provided an update last week on the stakeholders group he chairs, which is studying water solutions for the Pinal Active Management Area.
The group has met more than a dozen times since December and has brought two proposals to the Legislature, which became House Bill 2880.
One of the bill’s provisions is that anyone holding a certificate of assured water supply can replat the development without going back through the entire approval process, as long as the new plat uses the same or less water.
Another change allows water providers to reduce the volume of groundwater in their designation and bring non-groundwater supplies into the designation. This would help a provider such as the city of Eloy, which is designated for 40,000 acre-feet.
