The wilting alfalfa is a sign of defeat for La Paz County Supervisor Holly Irwin, who lives just miles away from GSC farm in Cibola. MORE ⬇️
“I don't think any water should be transferred off of the Colorado River,” Irwin told ABC15 Investigators while at the farm in the rural Arizona community southwest of Quartzsite.
This month a federal judge in Phoenix denied a request for a preliminary injunction. GSC Farm will be able to begin water transfers at any time. The company intends to divert about 2,083 acre-feet of water per year from the Colorado River, into the Central Arizona Project canal, to Queen Creek nearly 200 miles away.
“It doesn't seem like much, but over 100 years, it will save 200,000 acre-feet of groundwater that we would have pumped in that 100-year timeframe,” Gardner said. Greenstone is one of several corporations and hedge funds buying lands in the Colorado River Basin with hopes of profiting from future water transfers to cities, housing builders, golf courses or other water users at risk of running dry.
Supervisor Irwin questions how many more fields will end up like GSC Farm in La Paz County, going fallow and abandoned just for the water to feed the growing metro areas. “To say this is all going to come off the river is really disingenuous by the river communities because it just can't happen,” Gardner said. “There's just not that supply available.”
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