Bonita — Proposition 401, which asks voters to support or overturn the Graham County Board of Supervisors’ decision to rezoning Bonita’s two greenhouse facilities to allow for the cultivation of medical-grade cannabis, is the only vote on the ballot. is not a proposal. A small group of Graham County voters.
Graham County residents of Bonita and Sunset will also be asked whether the Wilcox Groundwater Basin should be made an actively managed area.
The AMA regulates groundwater access and withdrawal, sets conservation measures, and monitors impacts from wells.
The limit is already felt. Once the election call is made, the land may not be irrigated unless it has been legally irrigated in the five years preceding the election call. This restriction will remain in place if voters support her AMA and will be removed if voters reject her AMA.
Actively managed areas allow landowners to use wells for purposes other than irrigation as long as the maximum pump capacity of the well is no more than 35 gallons per minute and permission is obtained from the Arizona Department of Water Resources.
There are some exceptions to the limit, particularly in certain areas where water rights are grandparents, and for landowners who have made significant capital investments within a five-year period.
There are currently five active administrative areas in the state: Phoenix, Tucson, and Prescott. Pinal County and Santa Cruz County. There are also his three irrigated non-expansion areas of Douglas, Halkahala and Joseph City.
A promotional brochure detailing the proposal has five letters in support of the AMA, including one from the Arizona Water Defenders Political Action Committee.
There are 17 letters of opposition from individual farmers and vineyard owners, the Rural Water Guarantee Political Action Committee, the Cochise Graham Wine Council (also known as Wilcox Wine Country), and the Arizona Winegrowers Association.
In contrast, the Proposition 401 publicity pamphlet has 27 letters supporting a YES vote on Proposition 401, while the letter from the chair of the committee that collected signatures to put Proposition 401 on the ballot There is only one and only one letter asking you to vote against it. .
The Wilcox Basin includes Bonita and Sunset in Graham County, Wilcox in Cochise County, Kansas Settlement, Dragoon, Sunsite, and Pierce.
