Crews are nearing the end of a 12-mile trek to pave the San Carlos Reservoir to prevent water loss. 'We have terrible losses through seepage.'
There are so many different strategies being discussed to secure our water future, and every drop counts. In the meantime, millions of dollars of work is already underway to keep the water we have for miles and miles.
For three years, the trucks have been digging, scalping and shaping the land next to the decades-old canal from the"We have terrible losses through seepage," says Shane Lindstrom with theCrews are nearing the end of a 12-mile trek to pave a canal that will prevent water loss."Very few water control checks in it, the new one we have checks in it, so we can control the water. We actually have different pools, so we can speed water up and slow it down," Lindstrom said.
They estimate in a wet year, simply paving this portion of the canal could save 50,000 acre-feet of water.The cost is big as the stretch of 12 miles headed to the Gila River Indian Community and farmers in Casa Grande costs tens of millions of dollars. "It’s paid for with the Arizona Water Settlements Act of 2004, but their fund is now dry, and dozens more miles still need to be paved.
"There’s lots of money out there but the hard part is the matching grant, so for example, this is 52 million. If I had to match half of it that means I would have to come up with $26 million. In a small little rural district, that’s cost prohibitive right now," Lindstrom said.Water will fill the newly paved canal sometime late this summer, but it’s not the end of the road as more of this canal is paved in the years ahead, saving more water.
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