OPINION — With a deep nod to Rusty Childress’ recent spot-on warnings about unsustainable Western regional water consumption, let’s focus attention on a critical local industry: Golf. By any metric, four 18-hole courses in a town of 25,000 or so residents is not par for the course. But for this town, it’s a great score.
Three courses are centerpieces of mature, master planned communities, SunRidge Canyon, Eagle Mountain and Firerock. Housing in these developments and our town as a whole produces significant waste. Those drains must lead … somewhere. And that somewhere is our Fountain Hills Sanitary District that treats “every drop” into top-rated A+ recycled wastewater.
That valuable reclaimed water is then paid for and redistributed to irrigate those golf courses as well as town parks and of course our iconic Fountain Lake. Our non-potable water demand and supply are largely in balance. In a word, sustainable.
