Posted on 12/03/2025 5:17:44 AM PST by Twotone
There’s more bad news over at Grand Canyon National Park: All of the park’s hotels on the South Rim will be closing indefinitely to overnight visitors as of Saturday, Dec. 6.
Properties that will shutter include El Tovar, Bright Angel Lodge, Maswik Lodge, Yavapai Lodge and Trailer Village, park officials stated in a news release. The closures come on the heels of the devastating Dragon Bravo Fire on the park’s North Rim, which destroyed the historic Grand Canyon Lodge, the visitor center, a wastewater treatment plant and more than 100 other buildings.
The South Rim’s hotels are closing due to water supply issues. Park officials are implementing water restrictions on the South Rim following “a series of significant breaks in the 12½ mile-long Transcanyon Waterline that supplies water from the canyon for use in the park,” the news release read. “Since mid-November, the park has faced challenges with water supply, and currently, no water is being pumped to the South Rim.”
The waterline supplying the South Rim was built in the 1960s and has “exceeded its expected lifespan,” according to the news release. It fails frequently, requiring “expensive and continuous maintenance work to repair leaks,” the park said, and a $208 million rehabilitation project has been underway since 2023.
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If there is no method of harvesting that water, a majority of it evaporates.
Take a ride along the 10 freeway west of Pheonix. What would you see aside the road?
Many places, youll see brush “trees” Indicative to the region. Why? Because the highway is holding up the water allowing for vegetation to thrive.
I dont care who uses that water. If intensive water harvesting isnt implemented soon, there wont be water.
Ask the folks up at the Verde foothills or north of Payson.
In this valley where we live. We have enough for another 100 plus years at present use. The next valley over, they’ll have to drive the wells lower in a few years because the Aquifer is depleted.
But, they keep building. New developments all over. Who is building? One of them is Harry Reids old buddy Rhodes.
These shysters dont care. Its eff you, we want money and if you run out of water in years to come, that is your tuff luck.
Its a simple thing to build retainment ponds in dry washes to help capture water to let it rebuild the Aquifer. They did it in the depression days. And it works. The cure all? No. But it helps, and stopping new construction is the other alternative.
Like i mentioned. Money talks.
I tell everyone. DO NOT MOVE TO ARIZONA. We are running out of water.
Look at the studies done by various organizations on the water depletion in this state.
Translation; We want to completely close these hotels permanently. To accomplish that we will close them because we need to replace an entire water pipeline which will need to be funded by Congress, require environmental impact studies and take 7 years to accomplish.
And the North Rim the Park Service successfully burned will never reopen.
Just watch.
Overbuilding. You are correct.
Meanwhile we’ve probably wasted 500 billion on Ukraine, a couple of trillion on other wars of fun and profit in the Middle East.
But we cannot manage to do projects like this fast, or often at all.
“AZ is running OUT, of water.”
And yet local governments throughout the West Valley and other areas in central and southern Arizona, continue to rubberstamp huge commercial, industrial, and residential developments that require more water than is currently available.
Yup.
Its called backroom payoffs.
They give a rip about what will happen in the future. Its about money.
AZ has been, and continues to be, thee most corrupt political state in the union. Its just not reported on. Just ask Karie Lake..or Dr Kelly Ward.
My hats off to Las Vegas. They got it right concerning water use. And, its going to get better because the corporate tourism controllers are running people out.
They used to water into the park by rail. Time to do it again?
= = =
Pump it in, using solar or wind.
Pause . . . this is humor.
That’s exactly why hubby doesn’t want to move to AZ :-(
Water problems.
If illannoy politicians were running AZ now, it would have reverted to the way it was when the Spaniards arrived.
“That’s exactly why hubby doesn’t want to move to AZ :-(
Water problems.”
Move to the 40% of Arizona that has 10% of the state’s population. We have large aquifers that largely haven’t been tapped.
Just make sure you like God, guns, cars, and dogs.
We DO!! We love all three!
Now, where, exactly, is this idyllic place?
rehabbling that water pipe sounds like Californication’s famous Bullet Train project?
And just where would that be?
Mohave County?
If it is along the river. Then they are OK as long as they are allowed to draw from that river.
If inland away from that river, your incorrect.
All along up and down that river the water allotment issue is constantly discussed. And if they pull any more from the AG sector down at Yuma, thus countries msin source of food supply vanishes.
This valley has enough for around 100 years at present usage. The next valley over is going to be in serious trouble in about 40 years.
But lets let the scum developers build. To hell with anyone now here. That is their tuff luck when the wells run dry.
No more new development. Use present abandoned property that has abandoned houses on them to buikd new.
Just do your own research.
Every single study done, state, federal, private or university, all of them indicated severe Aquifer depletion and loss of water in the very near future.
Of course they blame it on “climate” change.
But here is a fact. This region should have never been allowed to develope the way it has the last 10 years.
The same for California. And California has all the water it needs...just to the west of it. Californias water allotment should be eliminated from the Colorado river system.
“And just where would that be?”
How about the Prescott area? We have the Big Chino Aquifer, which has barely been tapped. Last estimate it could supply 200 years of water for 200,000 people at current water usage.
The Prescott area draws no water from the Colorado River.
The mismanagement within the National Park Service is of epic proportions. The entire organization is infiltrated with careerist ant-development environmental activists who make any facility improvements nearly impossible to achieve in a timely manner. They require environmental impact studies of environmental impact studies. These agents will do anything in their power to delay modernization or expansion projects.
Seem to recall a bit of information about a community just outside Prescott that has serious water problems.
I believe that was reported just last year.
Aren’t there regs or agreements that allocate water all along it? And, what role do poor choices in which crops to grow in an arid region play?
As to that last point, see also “Iran”.
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