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Peoria staff outline water portfolio, warn of possible large CAP cuts and plan to use stored credits
Summary
City staff told the council Peoria has multiple supplies — CAP, SRP, reclaimed water and long-term storage credits — and described contingency plans if federal changes reduce Central Arizona Project deliveries, including increased recovery-well pumping of stored credits and infrastructure and partnership projects.
Peoria city staff on April 7 delivered an annual briefing on the city’s water portfolio, saying the city has a mix of Central Arizona Project (CAP) water, Salt River Project (SRP) allocations, reclaimed effluent and long-term storage credits that together meet current demand but could be strained by future CAP reductions.
“We do not anticipate that our 2026 scheduled order will change in any way,” Water Resources Advisor Melinda Whittington said, describing recent federal releases to support Lake Powell and staff’s current CAP order. She added that staff modeled scenarios in which post-2026 operations could reduce Peoria’s CAP allocation by roughly 40–60 percent and identified a 57 percent reduction as a probable scenario for planning purposes.
The presentation quantified supplies and storage: Whittington said Peoria’s CAP allocation is about 34,000 acre-feet…
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