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What is Tribute?

“Tribute” is a master planned community of Castle and Cooke Arizona, Inc., located within the city limits of Sierra Vista.  At full build-out, this development will include up to 6,959 homes on 1,916 acres, and could house 17,000 residents.

The development will include commercial development, open spaces, public school sites and other public facilities.

Residential housing will consist of single and multi-family units and will include high, medium and low density housing areas on lots ranging from 3,150 to 20,000 square feet.  The development will feature a variety of open spaces and recreational areas for residents.

 

How will this development impact groundwater?

All development impacts groundwater, and all water use is of concern within our sub-watershed because of the potential to impact the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area (SPRNCA) and Fort Huachuca's Biological Opinion (BO) with the Fish and Wildlife Service.

However, planned development can significantly lower the impact on the aquifer and still meet public demand for housing.

At full build-out, the “Tribute” development is projected to use approximately 2,000 acre-feet of water per year as follows:

  • Residential – 1,500 af/yr
  • Commercial – 400 af/yr
  • Open Space – 100 af/yr

 

How will groundwater pumping be mitigated?

The following mitigation is projected at full-build out of this development and the construction of a package sewer treatment plant to provide effluent for irrigation. 

Figures based on acre-feet per year (af/yr)


Effluent Reuse (Public & Commercial Areas):

  • 400 – 600 af/yr

Effluent Reuse (Pueblo del Sol Golf Course):

  • 450 af/yr

Post Development Recharge in Washes:

  • 75 af/yr

Reduced Evaporation Losses at Environmental Operations Park (EOP):

  • 400 – 500 af/yr

Total Estimated Mitigation:

  • 1,325 – 1,625 af/yr - approximately 65-80% of projected water use for this development

 

What Else Is Being Done to Reduce the Impact?

The City of Sierra Vista has approved Castle and Cooke’s specific plan and entered into a development agreement with them intended to mitigate much of the future water used in this development, as follows:

The Specific Plan requires...

  • Water and energy-efficient appliances in all homes and businesses
  • Desert-adapted landscaping in all common areas, open spaces and parks, and very limited use of irrigated turf
  • Desert-adapted landscaping for all homes
  • Grey water plumbing for clothes washers, if requested by the homeowner
  • Reuse of harvested rainwater to irrigate neighborhood parks (included only if the package plant is not built by the city as currently planned)
  • Public education programs for water conservation to all residents
  • Construction of wash improvements in Lewis Springs Wash to enhance recharge to the aquifer, and keeping both Garden Canyon and Pueblo del Sol/Mountain Mesas Washes in their natural state
  • A regional detention basin to control post-development storm flows and promote aquifer recharge

The Development Agreement specifies...

The developer will have three years to convert the Pueblo del Sol golf course from groundwater irrigation to treated effluent once a special treatment facility is constructed by the City.  Treated wastewater from this facility will also be used for landscape irrigation of all public areas, rights of way, parks, school sites, and commercial areas within the development, subject to the conditions in the agreement.