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ARIZONA / MARICOPA COUNTY

Rio Verde Foothills

Cut offRestored January 1, 2026
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Population (2023)
2,200
Water cut
January 1, 2023
Cause
allocation
Where
33.74°N, 111.75°W

What happened, and when

Every dated water event the register holds for Rio Verde Foothills, newest first, each with the sources that document it.

  1. Restored

    Restored

    EPCOR Water opened a permanent, regulator-approved standpipe filling station for the community, replacing the temporary 2023 to 2025 arrangement. Supply is still hauled, not piped.

  2. Cut offon the card

    Cut off: what happened

    Rio Verde Foothills is an unincorporated area of Maricopa County next to Scottsdale where roughly 500 homes without wells depended on water trucked from a City of Scottsdale fill station. Citing Colorado River shortage declarations and its drought management plan, Scottsdale stopped letting hauled water leave the city on January 1, 2023, after notices sent in 2021 and 2022. Haulers had to source water from much farther away at sharply higher cost, and an interim supply through a legislature-created standpipe district did not arrive until October 2023.

    • Maricopa County: Rio Verde Foothills Water Statement (September 6, 2022)
    • City of Scottsdale: Citizen petition to enter an agreement with EPCOR to provide water to Rio Verde Foothills: city response to Council (December 19, 2022)
    • Arizona's Family: City of Scottsdale cuts off Rio Verde Foothills residents from water supply (January 1, 2023)
    • NBC News: As water dries up in Arizona community, residents use rainwater to flush toilets (January 19, 2023)
    • EPCOR Water: EPCOR delivers water solution for Rio Verde Foothills, facility opens January 1, 2026 (December 30, 2025)