For Star subscribers: State officials say Buckeye in Maricopa County, long one of the U.S.' fastest growing cities, lacks enough groundwater to support its projected homebuilding. Other areas likely face that dilemma, too, Arizona's water director warns.
Tony Davis Buckeye in Maricopa County, long one of the U.S.' fastest growing cities, isn't the first place in Arizona that state water officials concluded lacks enough groundwater to support its projected homebuilding — and it likely won't be the last.
People are also reading… The report's release comes close to two years after ADWR made a similar water supply determination for Pinal County, effectively blocking much new home development in that previously rapidly growing area. Under the 1980 Arizona Groundwater Management Act, subdividers for all new homes built in the state's three most populous counties — Maricopa, Pinal and Pima — must prove they have an assured water supply for 100 years. They're required to prove both that there's enough groundwater under the subdivision and that a three-county water district can find enough renewable supplies to replenish that or another aquifer to compensate for the subdivision's pumping.
"It has to happen" that other areas will be found lacking sufficient groundwater for new growth, he said."We will be working on updating our groundwater models that we have for Active Management Areas. As we continue to work on updating those models and improving the science, we'll start seeing where that starts to daylight specifically."
"Some other types of water supplies may need to be brought into this area, if those houses are to be built," he said. "We need time to analyze the data. Once we have an opportunity to fully review the report; we’ll be able to respond and provide input," said DeChance.
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