Water District
About Us
"Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water."
The Pinyon Pines Water District was established in 1969 by the Pinyon Pines Property Association. It has been providing water services to the community for over 50 years.
Our Story
The Pinyon Pines Water District was started after World War Two around 1945. Art Nightingale, local entrepreneur, purchased about 600 acres going up the side of Santa Rosa Mountain. Included in that acreage was a spring called Pigeon Springs. This is where the current water supplying the community of Pinyon Pines comes from. It was started even earlier around 1928 when the highway 74 was being constructed where a tank was installed just north of the Pinyon Flats campground where the highway workers stayed. The tank location was moved 3 times before it ended up where it is now on Stone Crest Road, behind a blocked in cement reservoir that was also built and used. Water was brought into the community that was a development started and owned by Mr. Nightingale in the 1930s. He passed away in the late 1960s that is when the Water District was formed. A contract was signed with the Department of National Forestry stating that in exchange for the water rights and right-of-way that he would supply water to the Pinyon Flats Campground.
The Pinyon Pines Property Association was the party that applied for the formation of the District in 1969 through FASCO. In 2005 the boundaries of the water district were expanded to officially include two campgrounds and the fire station.