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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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“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.”
It was an unincorporated area northwest of the city of Prescott. Once in a while, areas like this will have wells dry up occasionally. They relocated their well and everything is fine.
My friends live just north of that area, are in a water district of 200 homes, and haven’t had any issues with water.
Good.
I will tell all the Californians to move there.
You can watch as your crime rate climbs as it has here.
If we move to Az it would be Prescott.
“Good.
I will tell all the Californians to move there.
You can watch as your crime rate climbs as it has here.”
About one third of the area’s population came from California and the crime rate has gone down. People over fifty and with grandkids tend not to commit crimes.
Phoenix and Tucson areas have crime problem because of illegal aliens and younger male population.
Phoenix is downstream from the canyon. Most of the Colorado river’s course is in severe drought.
Well. It is the second reddest county in AZ. right behind Mohave.
Wont be for long with the westers moving in.
A conservative Californian is equal to a liberal here.
Which realtor you work for?
There is no underground water source at the South Rim. Before the pipeline was built through the Canyon from the North rim, water was brought in by tankcar from several aquifers S of the Canyon or from around Williams.
Thx!!
Been there!
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