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(The Center Square) – Cochise County residents, farmers and ranchers gathered Friday for a public hearing on the potential of designating the Willcox groundwater basin as an Active Management Area.
A study in an arid agricultural region of Arizona [3] showed that, even with a water level recovery of 100 ft after groundwater pumping was stopped, the land surface continued to subside for decades. This is a result of the continued dewatering of aquitards (fine-grain layers that slow the movement of groundwater) from stresses mentioned in the ...
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In addition, a 1929 Act authorized an additional 50,000 acres for the Miners’ Hospital Trust. An 1881 Act had already granted the Territory of Arizona about 60,000 acres for the University of Arizona Trust. The total acreage was about 10,900,000. Today, State Trust Land is apportioned among 14 beneficiaries. Creation of State Land Department
Teravalis, formerly known as Douglas Ranch, is in a legal dispute with the Arizona Department of Water Resources over groundwater rights. Buckeye's master-planned Teravalis, once Douglas Ranch, in ...
Groundwater banking is a water management mechanism designed to increase water supply reliability. [1] Groundwater can be created by using dewatered aquifer space to store water during the years when there is abundant rainfall.
Aquifers of the United States Withdrawal rates from the Ogallala Aquifer.. This is a list of some aquifers in the United States.. Map of major US aquifers by rock type. An aquifer is a geologic formation, a group of formations, or a part of a formation that contains sufficient saturated permeable material to yield significant quantities of water to groundwater wells and springs.
Arizona governor Katie Hobbs said this week her administration is terminating state land leases that for years have given a Saudi-owned farm nearly unfettered access to pump groundwater in the dry ...