Update on HB 2613
From our friends at AIPG / AEG Arizona Section: Here is a brief update of where we are regarding the deregulation of geologists as originally proposed in HB 2613. Yesterday, the bill...
Government Goings-on: To Kill a Board
— Alan Dulaney Note: Since this article was published, geologists have been removed from the bill. Read an update as of March 4, 2016, here. A movement is apparently growing...
Government Goings-On: Sierra Vista Strikes Back
by Alan Dulaney Last month, I described the lawsuit brought by BLM and other plaintiffs against ADWR over the issuance of a Designation of Adequate Water Supply to Pueblo del...
Government Goings On: Cochise County and the Law
—Alan Dulaney Back in June 2013, this column described two property owners in Cochise County who objected to a decision by ADWR to issue a Designation of Water Adequacy to...
Government Goings-On: Arizona Town Hall
—Alan Dulaney Recently the Arizona Town Hall spent 3 days talking about water. The theme was “Keeping Arizona’s water glass full.” The makeup of the Town Hall wasn’t just a...
Government Goings-on: A Law for the Common Good
—Alan Dulaney Sometimes we need to remember our roots. Arizona is a leader in water management because diverse interests came together in the late 1970s to address the problem of...
Government Goings-on: Where No Hydrologist Has Gone Before
—Alan Dulaney Water flows on Mars. NASA announced the recently reached conclusion late in September, attracting considerable attention. But don’t break out your interplanetary kayaks just yet; NASA is actually...
Government Goings-on: When Rivers Run Orange
—Alan Dulaney Some incidents attract immediate attention. On August 5, 2015, an EPA contractor working on the abandoned Gold King mine near Silverton, Colorado, accidentally allowed the release of less...