SRP sends a blunt messaage

SRP says Prescott has no right to Big Chino water…By Joanna Dodder Nellans, The Daily Courier …Saturday, February 16, 2008 … EXCERPTED …. Phoenix's largest water provider has upped the ante in its attack on Prescott's pipeline plans, contending now that Prescott has absolutely no right to any groundwater from the Big Chino Sub-basin under a special state law. Salt River Project's latest letter to Prescott and the Arizona Department of Water Resources says that the state law that grants Prescott the exclusive right to transfer as much as 14,000 acre-feet of Big Chino groundwater each year to its neighboring basin is unconstitutional. Prescott officials obviously disagree, and so does the state. "While the City of Prescott appreciates Salt River Project's opinion, it is the Arizona Department of Water Resources that will make determinations regarding the city's entitlement to Big Chino Sub-Basin groundwater," said Jim Holt, manager of the city's Big Chino Water Ranch. Prescott Valley Mayor Harvey Skoog said the three Prescott-area mayors and staff members just talked about the SRP letter in a meeting Thursday morning. Prescott Valley is a partner in the Prescott pipeline. Chino Valley is working on its own pipeline, using a related state law. "We're kind of concerned about what SRP is saying," Skoog said. "They're trying to scare us, I guess. It's just not the right way to go about it." The Arizona Legislature approved a law in 1991 that generally prohibits the transfer of groundwater from one basin to another. However, the Legislature provided several exceptions. Phoenix-area providers could use groundwater from three nearby basins.


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PRESCOTTSRP sends blunt direct message to everyone… don’t even think about sniffing around our water…

Our state’s economy is built upon the economic model of unrestricted growth. Only problem is this model is “unsustainable.”

First Prescott then take all of Sedona and the Verde Valley water as they too are depriving “metro” Phoenix to water rightfully belonging to SRP and us.

SRP – quasi-government-corporate ownership – structured solely to benefit only metro Phoenix.

The rest of you can go to hell…!