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'It's hurting economic development,' said Willcox City Manager, Caleb Blaschke. 'It's hurting our ability to grow.”Blaschke and Willcox residents are concerned about the amount of water being used and pumped from the Willcox Playa Basin. Roughly 5,000 people rely on the City of Willcox for water. 'In the Willcox basin, you can pump as much water as you want, and there's no protections for residents. There's no protections for the city,” Blaschke.
Blaschke says they recently received $2 million for well repairs and to dig a new well at the site of an old well. He says the city uses at most 500,000 gallons of water a day, while large farms in the area can use more than 1 million gallons a day.“It doesn’t matter what a homeowner does, it doesn't matter what a small farmer does. It matters what the pivots do, and what those large users do,” Blaschke said. He says 300 new wells have been dug in and around the city in the past year.
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