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A portion of a public utility easement at 1930 E. Second Ave. is not needed by the Apache Junction Water District and has been vacated.
Apache Junction City Council members serve as the water utilities community facilities district board.
The board voted unanimously April 19 to approve a resolution declaring a portion of the public utility easement is no longer necessary for public use as a public utility easement and is extinguished. Vice Chair Christa Rizzi was absent.
The 30-foot easement was dedicated in the early 1960s and is no longer necessary for public use, Water District Director Mike Loggins said at the board meeting.
“It’s an acre-and-a-quarter property. It’s on their west side of the property — they want to abandon that portion of the easement, but not the portion on Second Avenue at this point in time. We currently have no facilities in that area — and it currently is not in our service area — so we’re recommending extinguishment of this [public utility easement],” he said.
The applicant, Noe Lopez, requests the extinguishment of all public and private utility easements within the north 297 feet of the west 33 feet of the property, Attorney Shaine T. Alleman of Tiffany & Bosco, said in a letter to utilities including the water district.
The Apache Junction Water District supplies well water — groundwater — pumped from the Eastern Salt River Sub-Basin Aquifer which flows southwesterly under Apache Junction and its surrounding areas. The groundwater is treated for arsenic removal where necessary, disinfected with chlorine, pumped into storage tanks and blended with Colorado River surface water. The surface water is transported through the Central Arizona Project canal system and filtered and purified at the Superstition Area Water Plant before being introduced into the distribution system. AJWD can also receive CAP water from the city of Mesa’s Brown Road Treatment Plant and delivered through an interconnect for a backup supply of water, if needed.
For information on the Apache Junction Water District, go to ajwaterdistrict.org.
Richard Dyer Managing Editor | East Valley @RHDyer
Richard Dyer has worked at Independent Newsmedia, Inc.. USA, since 1987.
Since 2009, he has worked as a volunteer to design The Blue Guitar Magazine, Blue Guitar Jr. magazine and Unstrung magazine, which are projects of The Arizona Consortium for the Arts; and since 2014, has been overseeing the art submissions.
He also is an artist of welded-steel sculptures, selling his artwork at juried and non-juried art shows
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