Cheaper water could come to Club West Golf Course by the middle of next year – but it may be too late to immediately remedy its deteriorating condition and it may not come at all unless someone comes up with as much as $1.2 million to pay for a new pipeline.
Both the short- and long-term future today remains clouded for a golf course that is the heart of a community of about 2,400 homes.
While the course looked like a golfer’s paradise less than three months ago after Richard Breuninger became the new owner, the greens are rapidly browning and the small lake is drying up after the city shut off the water three weeks ago for nonpayment of a bill reportedly totaling more than $200,000.
Mike Hinz, vice president of the Foothills Club West Community Association board, said he met with Breuninger twice in the past 10 days and that he appeared to have reached a short-term solution to the water problem.
“I think they’re very, very close to coming to an arrangement,” said Hinz of Breuninger and the Phoenix Water Services Department. “He’s got a temporary solution, and I think there’s something they can work out.”
Stressing that the HOA is powerless to do much, Hinz declined to discuss specifics of that possible arrangement, deferring to Breuninger
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