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SUNDAY, JANUARY 15, 2023
3 counties sue to block Queen Creek water deal BY MARK MORAN Tribune Staff Writer
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hree western Arizona counties havefiled a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation for approving Queen Creek’s $21 million purchase of Colorado River water from GSC Farms in Cibola. The counties of Mohave, LaPaz and Yuma also asked the court to stop the transfer un-
til the bureau studies the impact of climate change on the Colorado River – something the agency did not do before approving the deal. The suit challenges the bureau’s claim that the water transfer will not have a major effect on the human environment and said it reneged on its duty “to sufficiently analyze the significant impacts of the transfer” on the environment by ruling without any study that the deal would have no major impact.
“Reclamation made this finding when Arizona and the other lower basin states that rely on the river are in the midst of a 20-year megadrought that has caused the Colorado River to become the most endangered river in the United States,” said the suit, which was filed in Mohave County. “Lake Mead and Lake Powell are nearing see
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2 four-legged officers join QC police patrols SPORTS .................. 20 Eastmark banks on you in basketball crown quest.
GETOUT..................23 Celebrated Barrett-Jackson Auction rolling into the Valley.
COMMUNITY ..........................14 BUSINESS................................16 OPINION.................................... 18 SPORTS......................................20 GET OUT.................................... 23 CLASSIFIEDS............................ 27
BY MARK MORAN Tribune Staff Writer
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he Queen Creek Police Department is putting two new, highly trained specialty officers on the street this month to track criminals, find runaways, sniff out potential hazards and keeping their fellow officers out of harm’s way like only these two four-legged additions can. “They will search for people, articles, anything we can get a human scent on,” Chief Randy Brice said. “That’s one of their primary purposes.” The officers, Jack and Obi, are 2-year-old German that make up the department’s see
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Queen Creek Police Officer Deanna Kuhn has a new partner, Obi, one of two German Shepherds the now year-old force has added to its compliment of crime-stoppers. (Courtesy Queen Creek Police)
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