Edmonton's Epcor could be last hope for Arizona suburb cut off from water supply via financialpost
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“This isn’t Epcor’s first time serving a community that’s been cut off from their municipal supply through water haulers,” Epcor USA president Joe Gysel said, acknowledging the situation in Rio Verde Foothills is much more urgent than the company’s past forays assisting residents in far-flung suburbs north of Phoenix.
For decades, private water haulers were allowed to fill up at neighbouring Scottsdale stations, but unprecedented drought conditions in the Colorado River basin prompted the city to implement a strict new drought-management plan.Article content As local and state lawmakers scramble to come up with an interim option to prevent residents from running out of water, Maricopa County and some homeowners are looking to Epcor’s U.S. subsidiary — now the largest private water utility in Arizona — to step in to provide a long-term solution.
“There’s gonna be no gouging, there’s no excessive markups, it’s just the situation they’re in,” Gysel said. “It’s not a big community, so there’s no scale. There’s not a million people amortize all these costs over. This is on a very small population. And those costs have to be recovered.”Article content
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