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Flowing Wells Irrigation District
3901 North Fairview Avenue
Tucson, AZ 85705
Phone: 520-887-4192
Fax: 520-293-6532
FWID Service Area
FWID Board of Directors
From left to right, Manuel Valenzuela, President; Mack Dickerson, Secretary/Treasurer, and Eric Anderson, member.
Our Work, Our History
The Flowing Wells Irrigation District (FWID) service area is roughly bounded on the southwest by I-10, on the south by Miracle Mile, on the east by Fairview, and on the north by the Rillito River. The District’s drinking water is groundwater from the Tucson Basin aquifer. Our nine active wells pump water from 205 feet to 400 feet below the earth’s surface. Water from these wells is placed in storage tanks or reservoirs. The water is then pressurized to move underground through pipes to reach homes and businesses.
FWID is responsible for water quality throughout its system, ensuring that the water delivered is clean, safe and meets all local, state and federal drinking water health standards. The Safe Drinking Water Act requires public water systems to comply with EPA and ADEQ drinking water regulations and, at established monitoring frequencies, District staff collects water samples from wells, storage tanks, sample stands and at entry points to the distribution system. Those samples are then taken to a state-licensed laboratory for analysis and test results are reported to the District and the Water Quality Division of the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality. Read our current Water Quality Report for more information.
We have an elected Board of Directors who meet once a month, but the day to day oversight of operations is managed by the District’s Superintendent, David Crockett, and a support staff of ten, including business office and field personnel. The District is not regulated by the Arizona Corporation Commission, but as a political subdivision of the State of Arizona, is governed by the rules and regulations defined in Title 48, Arizona Revised Statutes.
Regularly scheduled board meetings are held on the first Tuesday of each month at 4:00 p.m. in the conference room of the District’s business office at 3901 N. Fairview Avenue.
Awards
For the design and construction of the arsenic treatment portion of the District´s Wells 70 and 75 Water Treatment Facility, Flowing Wells Irrigation District received the EPA´s 2006 Aquarius Award for innovative use of state revolving funds for sustainable health protection. The District was the only water provider in Arizona to receive this award. The District used a $996,600.00 WIFA drinking water state revolving loan to build an arsenic treatment plant and met the lower arsenic level before the rule went into effect in January 2006. Arsenic occurs naturally in soil and groundwater in Arizona.
From Left to Right:
Alexis Strauss, Water Quality Director at the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)
Steve Owens, WIFA chairman (Water Infrastructure Finance Authority of Arizona) and Director of ADEQ (Arizona Department of Environmental Quality)
David Crockett, Superintendent, Flowing Wells Irrigation District
Eric P. Anderson, Flowing Wells Irrigation District Board Member
For More Information
Read Flowing Wells by local authors Kevin and Marie Daily, a history of our community in words and images. Visit Amazon for more information.
Download “A Thousand Years of Irrigation in Tucson,” a history of the FWID area published by the Center for Desert Archaeology (PDF)
Our History
FWID has served its customers on the north side of Tucson since 1922 — a time, as its name implies, when the District served predominately agricultural water users along with some municipal users. After World War II, as Tucson changed, so did the District — with former agricultural use lands being turned into platted home subdivisions, manufactured housing parks, apartment and townhouse complexes, several Flowing Wells Unified School District schools, along with a wide range of commercial and industrial businesses
