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Golden Valley well failure has an important lesson for Arizona

View Comments Five hundred people in the Golden Valley area near Kingman went more than a week without reliable water service after a well failed. Thankfully, this isn’t a common occurrence in Arizona. You might even call it a worst-case scenario. But it carries an important truth as the state becomes more reliant on groundwater and the push grows to pump from deeper depths. When the Golden Valley Improvement District was formed in the 1980s, it had four wells serving this unincorporated area, all more than 1,000 feet deep. In the early 2000s, two of those wells were decommissioned because of high levels of arsenic and salts.

Arizona farmers raised the bar on themselves (and the water conservation debate)

Arizona farmers raised the bar on themselves (and the water conservation debate) Joanna Allhands, Arizona Republic © Photo: Jeff Gibbs Runoff water captured in a storage pond is pumped back in to reuse on fields in the Buckeye Valley. After a blowup with regulators in the fall, the agricultural community could have chosen to dig in its heels on irrigation efficiency. But after some tough internal talks, it decided to raise the bar on itself. This is hugely important – and not just because groundwater is finite and agriculture uses more of it in the state’s Active Management Areas than other sectors combined.

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