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Prescott Water Resource Manager Leslie Graser, far left, explains the status of the Big Chino Water Ranch to the 40 or so people who turned out at the Prescott Public Library for the Sept. 19 installment of the city’s WaterSmart: Drop by Drop series. As a part of the presentation, Graser displayed drill cutting samples, visible in the foreground, from a monitoring well that was recently drilled in the Big Chino Sub-Basin as a part of the ongoing analysis. (Cindy Barks/Courier)

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Big Chino Water Ranch: Science-gathering phase continues
Current analysis of the aquifer plans will not be done before 2020

Prescott has been eyeing the Paulden-area Big Chino Sub-Basin as a possible source of imported water since the 1970s; four decades later, officials are still in search of answers.

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