DEIS Comments

Complete this form to let Washington know Arizona wants to be part of the solution but can’t do it alone. Your comments will be sent to the Bureau of Reclamation, Attn: BCOO-1000, P.O. Box 61470, Boulder City, NV 89006

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Bureau of Reclamation
Attn: BCOO-1000
P.O. Box 61470
Boulder City, NV 89006
crbpost2026@usbr.gov

Subject: Comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Post-2026 Operational Guidelines and Strategies for Lake Powell and Lake Mead.

I am writing to voice my profound concerns regarding the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the Post-2026 Operational Guidelines and Strategies for Lake Powell and Lake Mead and the terrible impacts the DEIS alternatives would have on my community.

The Colorado River is critical to supporting my community in Central and Southern Arizona. Colorado River water supplied by the Central Arizona Project flows to our homes, schools, parks, and businesses. As Arizonans, we understand that water is life. Water provides the lifeblood that supports our region’s survival. We have carefully used and reused our Colorado River water over the past 40 years, reducing our total uses while more than doubling the State’s population over the same period. That is why I am outraged over the alternatives proposed in the DEIS. The DEIS threatens to cut my community off from the Colorado River and possibly force my municipal water provider to haul water to support current uses, all while allowing other states that share the Colorado River to use more water. The DEIS proposals are unfair and unacceptable. Arizona will not tolerate being treated as “less than” other states.

In addition to being unjust, the DEIS alternatives are also illegal in that they entirely ignore the 100-year-old obligations laid out in the Colorado River Compact of 1922 and subsequent laws. Those obligations guarantee the Lower Basin States – Arizona, California, and Nevada – minimum amounts of water.

The DEIS does not provide the “hard look” at environmental consequences required by law and threatens to impose unconscionable devastation on the State of Arizona and its people. Reclamation must withdraw this defective DEIS and reissue a document that complies with the law.

Thank you for your attention to this critical matter.
Sincerely,
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