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Scottsdale amends water transportation agreement

Posted 1/22/20

An amended and restated water transportation agreement between the Salt River Valley Users Association and the City of Scottsdale has been filtered through for approval.

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Scottsdale amends water transportation agreement

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An amended and restated water transportation agreement between the Salt River Valley Users Association and the City of Scottsdale has been filtered through for approval.

City Council approved on consent, during a Jan. 14 meeting, a resolution authorizing an amended and restated water transportation agreement with the Salt River Valley Water Users’ Association, which provides the City of Scottsdale with water via the SRP water delivery system.

SRP water represents approximately 15% of the city’s main water supply, according to a city staff report.

The city and SRP developed a Water Transportation Agreement on Sept. 3, 1991, outlining the “critical renewable supply of surface water for the city.”

In 2018, the city purchased more than 1,5226 acre-feet of water from SRP; 1,0040 acre-feet were delivered via the Arizona canal to the Chaparral Water Treatment Facility to produce drinking water; 3,764 acre-feet was provided through SRP wells; and 1,422 acre-feet of water was delivered to turf facilities including parks and golf courses.

Recently, SRP proposed changes in the Water Transportation Agreement to include SRP-owned laterals and drain ditches as part of the service of transporting water to Scottsdale; identical changes have been proposed with SRP’s other municipal customers, the staff report noted.

In 2018, Scottsdale received 1,061 acre-feet for turf irrigation water from SRP through laterals.

Details of the amended and restated Water Transportation Agreement include some of the following changes:

•A new rate ($10 per acre-feet) for water transported through SRP-owned laterals and drain ditches. This rate is proposed to enable SRP to recover costs of operating and maintaining laterals and drain ditches and will increase Scottsdale’s cost by about $10,600 per year, plus “updating the current values of various indexed adjustments.”

Effective Jan. 1, 2020, and in each January afterwards, the fees will be adjusted accordingly by means of the Annual Index and billed when service is commenced or terminated, the report continued.

Despite the cost increase, SRP continues to remain the city’s lowest cost surface water supplier, according to the report.