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..-;,- .-l N C"i Some CAP sites will need deals for-SRP water c. Some cities, mines and Indian reservations will have to arrange water eJ:changes if they are to get their Central Arizona Project water allocations. Most of these cities, mines and reservationa are outside the CAP's service area. And mOllt of them will have to arrange trades with the Salt River Project, which stores runoff from the watersheds of the Salt and V we riven -behind dADlB on the two riven. The stored water is delivered to farms, cities and others in the Salt River Valley. The CAP allottees dealing with the SRP hope to get the project's permission to divert surface water from nearby IlUe8Dl8 that otherwise would now into the Salt and Verde reservoirs. In return, they would authorize delivery of their CAP allotments to the SRP through the Granite Reef Aqueduct. . For example, Prescott would divert water from the Verde River and, in exchange, its CAP water allocation would be delivered downstream to SRP waterUllel'll. Bob MalOn, director of the SRP water-group management staff, said two mining corporations and two water companies actively have been lleeking an exchange agreement. They are Phelps Dodge Corp.~ Pinto Valley Mining Corp., formerly Cities Service Corp.; Rio Verde; and Fountain' Hills. No agreements have been reached. Although negotiations are under way, the SRP board of governors has not decided if it will approve exchanging CAP for SRP water. If the board approve8, exchange agreements will have been reached by the 8ummer of 1986, Mason said. Three Indian reservations, eight municipal water users and three mines will require diversiolll from the Verde and Salt rivers OJ' their tributaries above the SRP dams in order to receive their CAP allocation8. The cities and mines are, in addition to tboee named above, Camp Verde, Cottonwood, Globe, Miami.Claypool, Payson, Pine, Prescott and Inspi- ration Copper. The Indians are the Tonto-Apache, Camp Verde and Yavapai-Preecott communitites. The Yavapai-Prescott Indian Community and Prescott may use the aame distribution system to get their CAP allocation8. The tentative plan is for ___Prescott to build the estimated $9 million system, __then charge the Indiana for its use. The Fort McDowell Indian Community, 25 miles east of Phoenix, al80 is planning a Verde River exchange. The community intends to build its own farm-distribution system. Estimated costs are unknown. The San Carlos Apache Indian Community, 100 _~miles east of Phoenix, hoped to exchage water from the Gi18 or Black rivers for its 12,700-acre.feet CAP allocation, but the U.S. Bureau of Reclama. tion-said the cost for doing this was too high, and it is looking for alternatives. The bureau estimated the price for the discarded pian at $39 million to ,$42 million. Negales and Rio Rico, both BOUth of Tucson, may be allowed to pump ground water for their CAP allocations, and Tucson would receive their allocations in exchange. Asarco and Kennecott mines at Hayden also are looking for ways to exchange their allocations for other water. 1,... CREDITS: This special report-on the Central Arizona Project was researched and written by: ............................................ EI" Zarbln ................................... Mary A.. II. Plrry Art and graphics coordination by: ....................................... Windy Govier Mape bY' ........................................... GUI Welklr Other charta and graphics by: .............................................. K.. Reali ..........................................Patti V.lclu ...................................... Plul MlnHllto ............................................ Frank .... P..........................