AMA Management Plans

Management Plans for each active management area reflect the evolution of the Groundwater Management Code, moving Arizona toward its long-term water management goals. The plans include mandatory conservation programs for all persons withdrawing, distributing or receiving groundwater designed to achieve reductions in withdrawals of groundwater.

A series of five management plans prepared beginning in 1980 and running through 2025 contain progressively more rigorous management requirements for agricultural, municipal and industrial water users.

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In 2022, as a result of the discussions of the 5MP Safe-Yield Technical Subgroup, ADWR published the Overdraft, Safe-Yield, and the Management Goals in Arizona's Active Management Areas Report, a detailed interpretation and analysis of safe-yield. This comprehensive report includes a description of the aspects of safe-yield, how ADWR analyzes those aspects, and the status of each AMA with regards to its management goal. Although the management goal is not safe-yield in every AMA, the applicability of this analysis to other management goals is discussed in the report. The Overdraft Data Dashboard was developed as a supplement to the report, to support data transparency efforts of the department, and to allow an interactive method to stakeholders to explore the associated data.

Management Plans

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First
Second
Third
Fourth
Fifth

Fourth Management Plan 

ADWR is in the process of formulating and adopting the Fourth Management Plans (4MP), for the period 2010-2020. The AMA Groundwater Users Advisory Council meetings are the forum for public comment.

An evaluation of the management plans as of 2008 assisted the Department in the development of the Fourth Management Plan.

 

Phoenix AMA

Phoenix AMA Fourth Management Plan

Overview of Changes from the Third Management Plan

Application for Administrative Review

Application for Variance

Comments on the 4MP

Arizona Municipal Water Users Association (AMWUA)   |   Rep. Rusty Bowers   |   City of Chandler   |   Dobson Ranch   |   EPCOR   |   Frank Fairbanks   |   Town of Gilbert   |   Sen. Rick Gray   |   Paradise Valley Country Club   |   Ron Rayner   |   Roosevelt Irrigation District   |   Roosevelt Water Conservation District   |   Salt River Project (SRP)   |   City of Scottsdale   |   Troon

COMMENTS ON THE 4MP submitted during formal comment period

Paradise Valley   |   Nathan Chipman-Boden   |   Roosevelt Irrigation District   |   Dobson Ranch   |   Moe Wakefield

OTHER ADOPTION  DOCUMENTs

Monday, April 20, 2020: The March 11, 2020 Order of Adoption for the Phoenix AMA Fourth Management Plan is now effective for purposes of judicial review. The conservation requirements in that plan will go into effect on January 1, 2023.  

Phoenix Fourth Management Plan Effective

Order of Adoption

Summary of Hearing and Findings 

Public Hearing Transcript

Pinal AMA

Pinal AMA Fourth Management Plan

Overview of Changes from the Third Management Plan

Map of the Pinal Active Management Area

Pinal AMA Fourth Management Plan Hearing Transcript

Pinal 4MP Hearing, August 20, 2020

COMMENTS ON THE 4MP

David Snider | William Collings | Maricopa-Stanfield Irrigation & Drainage District | CAIDD | Arizona Water Company | ADWR Response

Letter from Speaker Bowers, Senator Kerr, & Representative Griffin | ADWR Response

COMMENTS ON THE 4MP SUBMITTED DURING FORMAL COMMENT PERIOD

Arizona Farm Bureau | Danrick Builders|Marcus Martin | Arizona Water Company | Lonnie Frost | Maricopa-Stanfield Irrigation & Drainage District | San Carlos Irrigation & Drainage District

OTHER ADOPTION  DOCUMENTS

Order of Adoption of the Pinal AMA Fourth Management Plan

Summary of Hearing and Findings

MOTION FOR REHEARING OR REVIEW

Arizona Farm and Ranch Group| ADWR Decision   

MSIDD & SCIDD | ADWR Decision

Central Arizona Irrigation & Drainage District | ADWR Decision

Prescott AMA

Prescott AMA Fourth Management Plan

Comments on the 4MP

CWAG   |   U of A Water Resources Research Center   |   Western Resource Advocates 1   |   Western Resource Advocates 2

 

Santa Cruz AMA

Santa Cruz AMA Fourth Management Plan

Overview of Changes from the Third Management Plan

Map of the Santa Cruz Active Management Area

Santa Cruz AMA Fourth Management Plan Hearing Transcript

COMMENTS ON THE 4MP

Baca Float | Sopori

OTHER ADOPTION  DOCUMENTS

Order of Adoption of the Santa Cruz AMA Fourth Management Plan

Summary of Hearing and Findings

MOTION FOR REHEARING OR REVIEW

Baca Float and Sopori | ADWR Decision on Baca Float | ADWR Decision on Sopori

Tucson AMA

Tucson AMA Fourth Management Plan 

 

Comments on the 4MP

Metro Water District   |   Tucson Water   |   PCRWRD   |   Tucson GUAC   |   U of A Water Resources Research Center

 

Meetings

Upcoming Meetings

Previous Meetings

Previous Meetings

Agricultural Water Conservation Best Management Practices Advisory Committee Meeting
Wednesday, December 9, 2020 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
Webinar Only
The Agricultural Water Conservation Best Management Practices (BMP) Advisory Committee was initially established by executive order in 2002 and was continued in November by Governor Doug Ducey's Executive Order 2020-55. The Committee is charged with advising ADWR’s Director regarding the statutorily authorized Agricultural BMP Program and will provide vital input to the Director on the BMP Program as the fifth management plans and future management plans are finalized and promulgated. Pinal AMA farmer Scott Riggins is the chair of this committee. 
 
This meeting will cover the purpose and scope of the Agricultural Water Conservation BMP Advisory Committee, the history of the Agricultural BMP Conservation Program, and next steps for the committee.
 
 
Meeting number: 177 411 7899
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Pinal AMA Fourth Management Plan Public Hearing
Thursday, August 20, 2020 - 1:00pm
1891 Historic Courthouse 135 N. Pinal Street

Attend via Webinar (strongly preferred):

https://bit.ly/Pinal4MPHearing

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Phoenix AMA Fourth Management Plan Public Hearing
Monday, February 10, 2020 - 1:00pm
1110 W. Washington St., Suite 310, Phoenix, AZ 85007 Conference Room 3175A-B

Hearing Transcript

Public Hearing Notice

 

 

Phoenix AMA Fourth Management Plan Stakeholder Meeting
Wednesday, October 16, 2019 - 2:00pm
1110 W. Washington St., Phoenix, AZ 85007, Conference Room 3175

Phoenix AMA 4MP Stakeholder Meeting Presentation

At several recent public meetings, ADWR has received input regarding the path forward for the Phoenix, Pinal, and Santa Cruz AMAs Fourth Management Plans. Two options were presented during these meetings: one to allow additional time for stakeholder feedback while moving forward with incremental adjustments to the conservation programs in these plans and another to maintain the status quo and adopt conservation programs substantially similar to those in the Third Management Plans. ADWR received comments supporting both options.

As Governor Ducey has stated, Arizona is transitioning into a drier future; the time to begin additional conservation is now. Maintaining the status quo would be a missed opportunity to expand on the conservation framework in the Third Management Plans and would do a disservice to the incremental design of the management plans in the Groundwater Management Act.

ADWR will proceed with incremental adjustments to these remaining Fourth Management Plans. The Department has been working with various stakeholders on refinements to the program outlines that were published in July and is incorporating those changes into the draft Phoenix AMA 4th Management Plan.  Additionally, ADWR will hold a Phoenix AMA Fourth Management Plan Stakeholder Meeting at 2 pm on October 16, which will serve as a public forum for questions or further stakeholder input on the draft Phoenix AMA 4th Management Plan.

The Director expresses his appreciation to all those who took time to provide input. That input was weighed carefully as he made a decision on this matter. ADWR believes this path forward balances the need for time and stakeholder input with the need to move forward and make conservation progress under these plans.

 

 

 

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