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City’s water hauling cut leaves households high and dry BY J. GRABER Progress Staff Writer
NEIGHBORS.............. 18 Native Scottsdale actress in directorial debut.
BUSINESS....................22 Scottsdale man's videos a hit with woodworkers.
SPORTS.........................27 Athletes rejoice at return of tournaments.
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hen Meredith Deanglis bought her home in the Rio Verde Foothills area 10 years ago, the fact it was on a water hauling system was a selling point. “The Realtor said, ‘This is great news. You’ve got hauled water, you’ll never run out,’” she recalled. Now Deanglis has about a year before that water does, in fact, run out. Deanglis gets her water from the city of Scottsdale, but doesn’t actually live in city limits. Her water is hauled by a third-party commercial tanker that hooks up to an enormous city-owned spigot and transfers it to the 10,000-gallon, underground tank on her property. But that courtesy will be coming to an end in a year as the federal Bureau of Land Management begins this year to ration water from the Colorado River. The city has no records indicating how long
Meridith DeAngelis (left), Karen Nabity and water hauler John Hornewer face an uncertain future now that the City of Scottsdale plans to no longer provide water for hauling in about a year. (David Minton/Progress Staff Photographer)
it has been allowing water to be hauled to Rio Verde Foothills. “We did it out of an effort to be good neighbors,” Scottsdale Water Spokeswoman Valerie Schneider said.
The Colorado water-rationing announcement last year prompted the city to launch the
gible to run again, leaving an open seat up for grabs. So far, statements of interest have been filed by newcomers Paula Sturgeon and Tim Stratton and incumbents Kathy Littlefield and Solange Whitehead. Statements of interest are just that and don’t necessarily mean those who filed
them intend to follow through on filing petitions with at least 1,000 signatures between March 7 and April 4 to get on the primary ballot. Filing a statement of interest is required, however, before hopefuls can start seeking those signatures.
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Some early Scottsdale Election 2022 hopefuls emerge BY J. GRABER Progress Staff Writer
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ith one member termed out at the end of the year, the race for three Scottsdale City Council seats has begun. Councilwoman Linda Milhaven is not eli-
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