Judge rules in Prescott’s favor on Big Chino water
PRESCOTT - A Big Chino water-related decision that the city’s water attorney calls a “100-percent ruling for Prescott” came down late this afternoon from the Arizona Office of Administrative Hearings.
In a 64-page decision, Administrative Law Judge Thomas Shedden ruled Thursday that the City of Prescott was entitled not only to the 8,067 acre-feet of Big Chino water that the Arizona Department of Water Resource had earlier designated, but also to 500 additional acre-feet of water as well.
“It’s all good,” city water attorney Rita Maguire said of the judge’s decision that states that Prescott is entitled to pump nearly 8,600 acre-feet from its Paulden-area water ranch. “Prescott has been successful and prevailed.”
