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Sedona council favors abandoning Dells spray irrigation and adding recharge wells; staff to study recovery options
Summary
City staff recommended abandoning the Dells spray‑irrigation system and adding new recharge wells to handle wastewater effluent; the council broadly supported the "Alternative 2" recharge approach (estimated capital ~$22 million for required wells) and asked staff to proceed while also allowing a study of recharge‑and‑recovery options to preserve long‑term water supply value.
Roxanne Holland, Sedona's wastewater director, told council staff ranked five alternatives for effluent management and that abandoning spray irrigation in favor of additional recharge wells scored highest in the facilities plan decision matrix. "Alternative 2 — abandoning roughly 200 acres of irrigation and adding recharge wells — scored the highest," Holland said, explaining the plan aligns with a 2013 effluent management optimization study and would remove the operational unpredictability of…
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