Hohokam RC&D
Partners Raise Funds for Water System
Residents
in Globe, Ariz. have hauled water to their homes for the past 30 years due
to chemical pollution. In the summer of 2004, 138 families started drinking
water from the tap because of four years of work by a partnership led by the
Globe-Miami Chamber of Commerce and Economic Development Corporation
(Chamber).
The Canyon Water District Water System
Project raised almost $2 million for more than seven miles of a drinking
water pipeline. Work began in February, as the USDA Rural Development
provided $1,183,720 and the EPA gave a check for $748,000 to the District.
The Chamber began looking for solutions to
their drinking water problem in 1999. Needing to raise funds, the Chamber
started a partnership with the Hohokam RC&D to give their project non-profit
status. This helped them raise the funds needed to build the water system.
Clean drinking water will be provided to
approximately 550 people from the new water system, but those people aren’t
the only ones who will benefit. In 40 years, the city of Globe will have
ownership of the water system.
