For Star subscribers: The largest possible cuts in river water use envisioned by California could theoretically strip all supplies from the Central Arizona Project. But California officials insist it's not their intent to shut down the CAP.
Tony Davis A new proposal from California officials to cut Colorado River water use puts by far the largest potential burden on Arizona.
People are also reading… The proposals, both released this week, are headed to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. The agency must decide by August how much to curtail river water deliveries. Both proposals would also seek to insure Lake Mead doesn't fall below 1,000 feet and Lake Powell doesn't fall below 3,500 feet. Those levels are 50 and 10 feet, respectively, above the levels at which Hoover and Glen Canyon dams would no longer be able to produce electricity for sale to 13 million people across the basin.
The California proposal came from the Colorado River Board of California, which exists to protect the state's Colorado River rights and to represent the state in interstate talks over the river. Those additional reductions"should be applied using existing authorities or implemented through additional voluntary compensated conservation agreements," the proposal said, without elaborating.
"Not enough water to maintain a large lawn, for example, but limited irrigation, for trees and certain plants. Plus, water needed for commercial and industrial use. ... We don’t have all the answers. We're figuring it out as we go. It’s new territory. It’s uncomfortable. It's difficult. We’re doing our best," Hasencamp said.
The Arizona Department of Water Resources and the CAP issued a statement replying to California's proposal saying there are different interpretations of what the Law of the River actually means. "If CAP goes to zero, it’s not going to put enough water in Lake Mead to stabilize the system," Buschatzke said."We're at a point, where reservoir levels are at, that the senior priority water users are going to have to find a way to agree and have reductions imposed upon them.
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