The Environmental Protection Agency's proposed requirement to
install a different system to reduce emissions at the coal-fired
Navajo Generation Station near Lake Powell is bad policy that
would cost Arizonans more to buy electricity and water and
result in higher taxes, a Central Arizona Project official said
at a Chandler Chamber of Commerce economic update forum
Wednesday. Pamela Pickard, CAP's board president, said
substantial efforts already have been made to meet EPA standards
at the power station that provides almost all of the power
needed by the Central Arizona Project, which brings about 1.5
million acre-feet of Colorado River water annually to Pima,
Pinal and Maricopa counties. The water flows in a 336-mile long
system of aqueducts, tunnels, pumping plants and pipelines from
Lake Havasu to just south of Tucson and is the largest single
resource of renewable water in the state. Because the water is
ultimately delivered nearly 3,000 feet higher than where it
started, this system requires a tremendous