Prescott Valley OKs $345,000 transfer to design water main after PFAS detections

The Prescott Valley Town Council on the evening of the meeting unanimously approved a $345,000 budget transfer to begin design of a 16-inch water transmission main along Old Black Canyon Highway to interconnect the town's upper and lower water systems and provide backup capacity for wells affected by PFAS contamination.

Public works presenter Wadsworth told the council the project would connect a more prolific aquifer in the upper system to the lower system, and that the money would pay to start design work immediately so construction could be completed by next summer. "We're providing a secondary source of water from this area up in here, which most of the wells up here, we've not had any contamination detected at all. So we're putting a water out there that meets all…