For Star subscribers: City to leave 'significant volumes' of its Central Arizona Project water supply in the river in return for U.S. financial compensation.
Tony Davis Tucson Water is offering to leave"significant volumes" of its annual Central Arizona Project water supply in the Colorado River for the next three years in return for financial compensation from the federal government.
The uncertainty of Tucson Water's proposal is similar in some respects to how some other Arizona responded to the bureau's requests to leave water in the Colorado River starting next year. The bureau seeks this water as part of what it calls a"system conservation" program. Such a reduction would dramatically lower Mead's water level, and ultimately lead to still more drastic cuts in water deliveries to the Central Arizona Project and to other Lower Basin water users.
When the lake falls below 950 feet, Hoover Dam's turbines would no longer generate electricity for its 8 million customers around the Southwest. Lake Mead also would then sit only 55 feet above"dead pool," at which no water could be extracted to be sent downstream to water users in Arizona, California and Mexico.
Oro Valley opted to take all of its CAP allocation of about 10,300 acre-feet, in part because of the uncertainty of how much water will be released to Lake Mead next year. These users are"on the razor's edge" of being able to meet their obligations to deliver water to customers with the reservoirs so low, said Kathryn Sorensen, a research fellow at Arizona State University's Kyl Center for Water Policy.
Kmiec did condition Tucson's willingness to leave water in Lake Mead upon getting a federal commitment that whatever conservation the city does now will be given credit if the bureau has to make more cuts. "We didn’t come up with 5.5 million acre-feet out of thin air," ADWR Director Tom Buschatzke said at the meeting."This is something Reclamation has discussed with us."Bureau officials have said that if runoff into Lake Powell is less than 50% of normal next winter and spring,"they will need to stabilize the system, and we should expect less than 7 million acre-feet," Buschatzke said.
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