HB 2271
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ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Fifty-seventh Legislature
First Regular Session
HB 2271: supply and demand; assessment; groundwater
Sponsor: Representative Griffin, LD 19
Committee on Natural Resources, Energy & Water
Overview
Outlines the required information to be included in supply and demand assessments for
groundwater basins.
History
The Director of the Arizona Department of Water Resources (ADWR) is required, not later
than the first of December each year, to prepare and issue a water supply and demand
assessment for at least six of the 51 groundwater basins in the state. The Director must
ensure that a water supply and demand assessment is completed for all groundwater basins
and initial active management areas at least once every five years (A.R.S. § 45-105).
Provisions
1. Requires the Director to include in a five-year supply and demand assessment the
following information about the groundwater basin:
a) average depth-to-static level at the end of the assessment period, along with average
net increase or decrease, measured in feet;
b) maximum and average depth of bedrock at the deepest point measured in feet;
c) total number of active index wells measured in whole numbers;
d) average distance between active index wells measured in miles;
e) average geographic distribution or density of active index wells measured in number
per section of land;
f) total volume of, and total number of years' worth of groundwater available to its
maximum depth at the end of the assessment period, measured in acre-feet;
g) total number of active and passive stormwater and groundwater recharge projects
measured in whole numbers;
h) total volume of increased groundwater recharged due to active and passive
stormwater and groundwater recharge projects in each of the five years preceding the
end of the assessment period measured in acre-feet. (Sec 1)
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