Fri, July 31, 2015 11:03 am Marianne Davis sent this out
Less Than Zero
Despite decades of accepted science, California and Arizona are still miscounting their water supplies.

Article excerpt from ProPublica

Deep beneath the bleached-out, dusty surface of the drought-stricken West is a stash of water sequestered between layers of rock and sometimes built up over centuries.

Officials in the Colorado River basin states have long treated this liquid treasure as a type of environmental retirement account — an additional supply of water they can raid to get through the driest years and make up for the chronic overuse of the rivers themselves.

In recent years, the withdrawals have taken on even more importance…

Read the full article @ vrbp.org July issue

Lonnie

Sandy Moriarity, while serving on the former Sedona Housing Commission, was a strong arm in getting the ADU code approved in spite of substantial public opposition at every meeting that was held relating to that controversial topic. Yep, it was approved thanks to Moriarity and her gang, even when then Community Developer Director John O’Brien admitted the only way to enforce the code was neighbor “whistle blowing.”

Most recently Sandy Moriarity has been an avid supporter of the Chamber of Commerce, having spoken at council meetings in favor of the increased percentage of bed tax to be given to the Chamber for advertising. She is also involved in the Wine Festival (possibly Chair) another recipient of free money from the City which to my recollection did not provide documentation of how the funds were spent and at what profit or loss.

Moral of story: Two candidates for Mayor, one will be elected. Name your own poison.

In addition to being outraged at DiNunzio’s recent comments, I was also surprised because when Council was discussing the well the talk then was that the injected water would stay put and would be like a reserve supply. That was one of the reasons I gave them the Maui information, to show that it will not necessarily stay put.

I don’t know about Cornville but I did send my piece to both Clarkdale and Cottonwood Councils so they know about it now if they did not before.

People should know that current mayoral candidate, Cliff Hamilton, voted in favor of the initial funding for the well when he was on Council.

About 4 years ago when I was advocating against the well I called Sedona’s head of Public Works, Charles Mosely, to discuss the issue with him. Mosely said he knew about the estrogen mimickers but that they “only affected the lower life forms like amphibians.” Really. Again, you can’t make this stuff up. I can see him as foreman in a coal mine. ‘Hey, don’t worry about that dead canary, fellas. It’s just a lower life form.’

I can just just see the new branding design coming out of Cottonwood.
“The heart of Sedona’s wastewater”

I long for the old days when life was simple. I wish our kids could have known those times.