WSP00919

• File Number: 8221.112
• Description: Central Arizona Project
• State: AZ
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 1/25/1990
• Title: News Articles/Press Releases: 1990-1993
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: News Article/Press Release

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 11, 1993

Base Price for Central Arizona Project Water Rises to $59.50

A new base price of $59.50 per acre-foot for water delivered by the Central Arizona Project (CAP) has
been established by the Central Arizona Water Conservation District (CA WCD) board of directors.
Up from $53 per acre-foot, the new price will take effect October 1 and will continue through June 30,

1994.

The CA WCD operates and maintains the CAP, which delivers Colorado River water to municipal and

industrial (M&I) users, non-Indian agricultural districts and Indian reservations in Maricopa. Pinal and pjma

counties.

In other actions taken Wednesday while meeting in Tucson, the CA WCD board voted to:

--Raise the capital charge M&I customers must pay toward repayment of the CAP construction loan

from $6 per acre-foot of water for the maximum entitlement in 1994, to an annual rate of $9 from January 1

through June 30,1994, and to an annual rate of $12 from July 1 through December 31,1994.

M&I users include cities, towns, private water companies and mines. An acre-foot of water contains

325,851 gallons, which will cover an acre of ground--43 ,560 square feet--to a depth of 12 inches.

Non-Indian agricultural districts will pay $59.50 per acre-foot of water staning October 1. For any

water delivered after October 1,1993 the districts also will pay $2 per acre-foot as a capital cost.

The only Indian community presently receiving water is the Ale-Chin in Pinal County. The U.S. government is
obligated to pay the $59.50 base price for water delivered to the reservation.

--Enforce a provision in contracts with non-Indian agricultural districts requiring them to pay a portio"

of the CAP's base price for all water allocated to them whether or not they order it. The portion of the base

price the districts must pay staning October 1 is $22.50 per acre-foot.

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