CWAG Review of the PrAMA Third Management Plan

The water supply for the Prescott Tri-cities area is primarily groundwater pumped from the aquifer system that underlies the Prescott Active Management Area (PAMA). A state-mandated goal of the PAMA is to achieve safe yield by the year 2025. The state describes a scenario for achieving safe yield through a series of Management Plans. The Third Management Plan (TMP) covers the period 2000-2010. CWAG does not believe that the water users in the PAMA are on track to meet it. CWAG wrote to Herb Guenther, Director of the Arizona Department of Water Resources and asked that the TMP be reopened to include new provisions to achieve safe yield. View Document.