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From failed housing development to long-awaited groundwater bank, McAllister Ranch saga continues

April 19, 2024

• by Lois Henry

More than 13 years after buying half of the 2,100-acre McAllister Ranch – a poster child of the 2007 housing crash – out of foreclosure for use as a groundwater bank, Rosedale-Rio Bravo Water Storage District agreed earlier this month to sell its remaining share to Buena Vista Water Storage District. Buena Vista will buy…

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Native American sites to be protected under plan for the long-suffering McAllister Ranch groundwater project

February 15, 2022

• by Lois Henry

In the often hard-fought world of archeological preservation, Colin Rambo is counting the McAllister Ranch groundwater project plan as a “win, win, win.” Rambo, an archeologist with the Tejon Tribe, has been working closely with the City of Bakersfield and the two Kern County water districts behind the project to make sure the “significant” Native…

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From failed housing development to long-awaited groundwater bank, McAllister Ranch saga continues

Native American sites to be protected under plan for the long-suffering McAllister Ranch groundwater project

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