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Even Kings County districts that don’t pump may have to pay for groundwater management

The directors of a Kings County water district didn’t like it, but they agreed to support a land assessment fee to pay for regulations to minimize the impacts of excessive groundwater pumping even though the district, itself, doesn’t actually contribute to the problem. Directors of the Lakeside Irrigation Water District agreed on Sept. 2 to […]

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