Interview with Grady Gammage - Central Arizona Project

not a sensible mechanism for running society and yet that’s where we appear to
be headed.
A. How far did we get, talking about water and growth
Q. Well, we had just started talking about the fact that the active water management
areas don’t extend to the rural areas and you could foresee some problems
there.
A. That’s interesting, I was in Prescott Valley last week talking to what they call the
Quad Cities, the four cities that are up in that area.
Q. That’s what they call it
A. Yes, that’s what they call it. You think of Davenport, Iowa, but no it’s Prescott,
Prescott Valley, Chino Valley and Dewey-Humboldt. It took me a while to figure
out what the fourth was of the quad. It was Dewey-Humboldt. About some of
these issues and they’re really wrestling with… cause some of that is within the
AMA and some of it is not. A lot of the growth is now sort of not. They’re
transporting water from the Chino Basin down to the Prescott, Prescott Valley
area. Very controversial. There are people up who think of themselves as the
haves and the have-nots. So I was a little nervous about going up there to talk to
them at all because it’s sort of a powder keg. But I offered them some kind of
observations about water and growth issues that I’ve thought about since I was
on the CAP Board. One of them is, water is one of the most interesting and
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