Jurisdiction

The Pinal AMA includes portions of Pinal, Maricopa and Pima Counties in Central Arizona. The Pinal AMA comprises over 4,000 square miles and consists of five groundwater areas, or sub-basins.  It includes 275,000 acres of farmland.  Water use is over 800,000 acre feet of water per year.  (An acre foot covers one acre of land one foot deep, about the size of a football field.  It is 325,851 gallons and can supply one or two urban households, both indoors and outdoors.)