By Tony Davis | Arizona Daily Star
Central Arizona Project officials and board members are giving conflicting accounts of how they will decide which applicant they will allow to tie into an existing CAP pipeline near Sahuarita.
CAP General Manager David Modeer and a top aide, Tom McCann, have been telling Tucson officials and two pipeline applicants that the water project must both let both applicants tie into the pipeline – or neither. They’ve said they’re acting on direction from their board – although not from a formal vote.
But three of four CAP board members who represent the Tucson area say they know nothing of such a policy and had not discussed giving the staff direction to proceed with it. Those members are board Vice Chairman Warren Tenney, Sharon Megdal and Patrick Jacobs.
