All right, everyone, welcome to the Tuesday, May 5th, 2026 technical review meeting for the city of Musquite.

It's 4 32.

We're gonna get started.

Um, any opening public comment, mayor, council, thank you.

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Great time.

Great turnout.

Uh on a serious note.

Uh I've been watching some of the things going on with water and water issues regarding to Nevada, Arizona, and what's going on.

Uh I don't know how up to date y'all are on it.

I spoke about this a couple years ago, brought it up, nothing happened.

Uh the county of Maricopa, Arizona, uh, tried to get a law into effect, which they're not done yet, but it did get turned down.

And what it is is this their water is going to be shutting off pretty soon.

Uh they won't be able to draw water off of Lake Mead.

And since that happens, they are stepping up the pace to have builders or developers in their contracts now, right up to where they want the count the state, the county does to have a 100-year guarantee of water before they hand out the permits to build, and it's something to consider.

Well, it turns out June and July is gonna be the date that the Department of Interior is gonna decide what they're gonna do with Lake Powell for water now.

Lake Powell's been draining a lot of water from a lot of reservoirs, and a lot of the tribes and other people that use them won't have any water.

Okay, in the process, they estimate right now they're gonna be dropping over a hundred feet, uh, which puts them in a dead pool.

Well, if uh Lake Mead doesn't get it, it's gonna be the same thing.

Now, again, we've been through the thing about the wells and all the stuff, and everything's okay, but the problem is is hydraulics.

Hydraulics mean the water in Lake Mead affects the water in the wells.

Well, my question is we better start looking at money for tankers to put out fires.

And what is the city gonna do for water if we don't have it in those wells?

And I think it's just something to look at, consider because again, by June and July, this is gonna hit us right at the hot season.

And uh again, putting out fires might need tankers, fire truck tankers, and where are they gonna get the water from?

Thank you for your time.

Thanks, Nick.

Yeah, during public moment.

Okay.

Well, we won't have council comments, so if you want to make a public comment.

I would like to say something about that.

I worked in water for over 30 years.

You're wrong about hydraulics, it's not Lake Mead pushing water up to us.

The water that's here matriculates to Lake Mead.

All of our water comes from the north.

None of it comes from Lake Mead.

Well, not for detective.

It it does not.

You won't convince me, you won't convince anyone with Virgin Valley water.

Our wells have nothing to do with the Colorado River.

Our wells have nothing to do with the Virgin River.

Our wells have to do with water that comes north of here, percolates through the ground, gets into an aquifer, and moves slowly towards a low spot, which is Lake Mead, and fills our aquifers, and that's where our water comes from.

So as long as we don't stop anything coming from the north, Lake Mead won't affect this city.

I'm not saying other things couldn't, but the Colorado River will not be a comment.

Yeah, just just real quick.

Okay, real quick.

Uh, with the development that's going on up in Washington and St.

George, they have the same problem.

They they did construct a huge reservoir, and it is dry.

So again, they're gonna be looking for that water that we get.

Thank you.