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Power plant closures to bring water reallocation

Ginia McFarland Arizona Capitol Times//February 24, 2024//

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Power plant closures to bring water reallocation

This Aug. 20, 2019, file photo shows a trio of concrete stacks at the Navajo Generating Station near Page, Ariz., which closed in 2019. The three towering concrete stacks are the most visual reminder of a coal-fired power plant that operated for decades in far northern Arizona. The plant was allowed by law to use up to 34,000 acre-feet of water from Arizona’s’ allocation of the Upper Colorado River Basin water, according to a report by The Kyl Center for Water Policy at ASU’s Morrison Institute and ASU Lightworks Just Energy Transition Center. The report stated that the water supply “could be used in settlement of federal reserved water rights claims of the Navajo and Hopi Tribe.” PHOTO BY SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Power plant closures to bring water reallocation

Ginia McFarland Arizona Capitol Times//February 24, 2024//

At a glance Thousands of acre-feet of water from the Colorado River and state groundwater will no longer be used at Arizona coal plants after the four plants shut down...

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Tags: Kyle Center for Water Policy, colorado river basin, Salt River Project, groundwater, Arizona Public Servce, Sarah Porter, coal plants

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