For Star subscribers: Deliveries to the Central Arizona Project that serves Tucson, Phoenix drinking water could be wiped out by one alternative plan now undergoing U.S. review, and cut to the bone by another.
Tony Davis Deliveries to the Central Arizona Project that serves Tucson and Phoenix drinking water could be wiped out by one alternative water-saving plan now undergoing federal review, and cut to the bone by another.
People are also reading… The cuts are contained in two alternatives for river management that Interior is considering. While one proposal would clearly favor California and the other would favor Arizona in theory, both alternatives contain cuts severe enough to significantly hurt farms and cities in both Arizona and California, the draft environmental report shows.
Beaudreau also was quoted saying he was “pretty comfortable” that allocating cuts evenly among the states would let Interior meet its goals — preventing water levels in Lake Mead and Lake Powell from falling below critical levels, protecting health and safety, and not exceeding the department’s legal authority.
'Would essentially take CAP down to zero'Under the first of the two alternatives, CAP would lose 741,000 acre-feet if Mead is at 950 feet. That's close to half of the CAP's federally authorized supply of about 1.6 million acre-feet. At the same Lake Mead elevation, California's urban water users would lose 843,000 and 724,000 acre-feet, respectively, under the two federal alternatives.
Yet as the cuts are now designed, in some cases California takes greater hits under Alternative 1 than under Alternative 2. Initial staff review by Southern California's Metropolitan Water District of the draft environmental report suggests that neither alternative Interior studied is ideal, said the district's general manager, Adel Hagekhalil.
Under Alternative 2, up to 196,000 acres of farmland would be fallowed in 2025 and 2026, although only up to 4,400 jobs would be lost. If a cut on that scale were to happen for the long term, the impacts to Tucson would be"substantial," she added, although it's not exactly clear when such impacts would be felt.
That's because a substantial amount of CAP water whose rights belong to cities and tribes actually ends up every year on farms — about 450,000 acre-feet in 2022, said Sarah Porter, Kyl Center director. That was nearly half the canal project's total deliveries that year. From what she's heard from people who work for the CAP and the Arizona Department of Water Resources, if the $4 billion CAP were to sit idle for a long time, its pumps would ultimately fail —"it would be devastating to the infrastructure."Feds willing to set aside historic priorities?Interior's Beaudreau expressed willingness in the New York Times interview to cut all water users equally, rather than following historic priorities.
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