LAUREN GILGER: “Cheap water is over.” That’s the quote from Queen Creek Utilities Director Mark Skocypec at a recent town meeting.
It made it into The Washington Post, which recently profiled the town and some of its residents who are not exactly happy about a new water resource fee being debated in the East Valley town.
It’s part of a plan the town has been working on to prepare for a drier future for almost a decade. The idea is to buy water from the Harquahala Valley, pump it out of the ground and transport it via canal to the fast-growing suburb. But it won’t come cheap, hence that quote from Mark Skocypec…