Town of Chino Valley v. City of Prescott

STRUCKMEYER, Chief Justice.

This appeal is from an order of the Superior Court of Yavapai County dismissing the Town of Chino Valley’s complaint to enjoin the City of Prescott from withdrawing groundwater from the Granite Creek Critical Groundwater Area. Order of the Superior Court affirmed.

The Town of Chino Valley lies approximately fifteen miles north of the City of Prescott in Yavapai County, Arizona. Prescott owns 164 acres of land in the Chino Valley. In 1948, it drilled wells on some of its Chino Valley property and began transporting groundwater through a seventeen-mile pipeline to its…