WSP01606

• File Number: 8200.800.10
• Description: Lower Colorado River Issues
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 1/1/1994
• Author: Varied
• Title: News Articles Pertaining to Lower Basin Issues
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: News Article/Press Release

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Central Arizona Water Conservation District

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Non-Indian Agricultural Districts Order 431,217 Ac:re-Feet
of Colorado River Water Through the Central Arizona Project

Ten non-Indian agricultural districts eligible to receive Colorado River water through

the Central Arizona Project (CAP) have so far ordered about 431,217 acre-feet (af) of water

in 1994, reponed the CAP's operating agency,

Added to the 245,518 af the CAP expects to provide to municipal and Indian users,

water deliveries for the year are scheduled to be 676,735 af; the most since 744,506 af was

delivered in 1990,

Some of the agricultural districts stopped taking water effective Oct, I, 1993, because

a provision in their long-term contracts with the Central Arizona Water Conservation District

(CAWCD), which runs the CAP, most probably would have forced them into bankruptcy.

Additionally, the districts turned to groundwater as a replacement for CAP supplies at

about one-half of CAP costs,

In an effon to encourage agricultural use of Colorado River water, the CA WCD's

board of directors on Oct. 7, 1993, unanimously enacted a two-pan program,

First, the board gave seven districts with long-term CA WCD contracts the opportunity

to waive or to reduce their rights to CAP water; second, the board created three pools of

agricultural water, In 1994 the pools operate as follows:

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