Battle It Out. IT A growing pain. According to City of Tucson officials, that water will be delivered at half its actual cost and Tucson Water ratepayers will be forced to make up the difference.
Nobody seems to care.
And quite possibly nobody even would have noticed this project had not Pima County Supervisor Ed Moore bolted early from a February supervisors' meeting. Moore's premature departure caused him to miss a discussion about a permit Tucson Water had requested, a permit required before the utility could tear up the county's roads and inconvenience the 2,000 or so drivers who take that route daily with a three-mile detour then expected to last for three weeks. Then, several weeks ago, Moore was reportedly caught by surprise when detour signs sprouted near Thornydale and Tangerine roads, and his constituents began bitching. But Moore's latest outburst comes while he's been engaged in a lengthy war with Tucson Water. The city's response to Moore's rampage was to sue the county, based on the logic that Tucson Water has the right to do what it pleases in other jurisdictions.