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MEETING NOTES: Indian Wells Valley Groundwater Authority gets SGMA update as detractors question, chide board members

• by Sonia Lemus, freelance for SJV Water
Meeting: Indian WellsValley Groundwater Authority board of directors Date: October 9, 2024 Agenda and Packet: CLICK HERE Public Comments Members of the public told the Indian Wells Valley Groundwater Authority that the board lacked “face” for failing to represent it itself at community events and meetings and this was causing a negative perception of the…
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New UC Davis clinic hopes to give small valley farmers some legal fire power to defend their groundwater stake

• by Hannah Frances Johansson, freelance for SJV Water
Nicole Larson is afraid for small farmers. Before enrolling as a law student at University of California, Davis, she served a term on the Turlock City Council where she was appointed to a committee that would decide how to get local farmers to cut back on groundwater pumping. “Everyone agrees that something needs to change,”…
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Kern pistachio farmer ordered to pay $30 million in back fees to high desert groundwater agency

• by Lois Henry
An Orange County court on Friday approved an injunction mandating that Mojave Pistachios LLC pay $30 million in back fees owed to the Indian Wells Valley Groundwater Authority for pumping groundwater without an allocation in Kern County’s eastern desert. That $30 million is the accumulation of a $2,130-per-acre-foot fee for non-allocated pumping that was established…
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MEETING NOTES: Residents in Kern County desert groundwater basin need to represent their own water interests in ongoing court action

• by Sonia Lemus, freelance for SJV Water
Meeting: Indian Wells Valley Groundwater Authority board of directors Date: March 29, 2024 Agenda and Packet: CLICK HERE Background: The basin depends on 7,650 acre feet of natural inflow each year but users pump out nearly 28,000 acre feet annually, creating a severe overdraft. As the Authority has worked to comply with the Sustainable Groundwater…
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