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Goodyear staff outline water and wastewater upgrades as growth strains systems
Summary
City staff presented an updated Integrated Water Master Plan at a March 3 work session, outlining water‑resource portfolios, recommended infrastructure expansions and next steps including a water resources policy, impact‑fee and rate studies, and future ordinances to enforce the policy.
BARB, a water department staff member, told the Goodyear City Council at a March 3 work session that the city’s updated Integrated Water Master Plan (IWMP) shows rapid growth has consumed system capacity faster than expected and lays out infrastructure and resource options to serve future customers.
The plan assesses the city’s “paper water” (legal water rights), physical systems for drinking water and wastewater, and reclaimed water and storage. "This plan should be updated every 5 years," Barb said, and it uses the General Plan’s growth projections to model when and where new capacity will be needed.
The IWMP shows Goodyear has a diverse portfolio, led by surface‑water supplies from the Colorado River delivered through a new pipeline and surface water treatment plant. Barb said the city currently operates an 8,000,000‑gallon‑per‑day surface water treatment plant and recommended expanding it to 16,000,000 gallons per day. The presentation also examined a severe hypothetical shortfall—an "extreme 65% shortage" on Colorado River supplies—and found that such an event would limit the city’s ability to grow.
On local groundwater, Barb pointed to differences among mapped aquifer…
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