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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- City officials plan to spend nearly $130 million over the next two years to expand Scottsdale's water supply.
Construction at the Scottsdale Central Arizona Project Water Treatment Plant is expected to go forward despite the fact that portions of the planned plant expansion is located on private land the city is trying to condemn.
Dave Mansfield, general manager of the city's water resources department, said the plant treats Scottsdale's allocation of Colorado River water to drinking standards. Currently, it treats about 50 million gallons per day.
But based on north Scottsdale commercial and residential growth rates, the plant will need to treat an additional 30 million gallons per day by 2008.
Recently, the City Council voted unanimously to approve a $15 million construction contract with Archer Western Contractors to build a new 6.5 million gallon reservoir for drinking water at the plant, bringing the total drinking water storage capacity to 16.5 million gallons.
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