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MEETING NOTES: Kern water managers concerned about new well permitting bill; “produced” water report and a new water/solar agreement

April 19, 2024

• by Sonia Lemus, freelance for SJV Water

Wheeler Ridge-Maricopa Water Storage District Date: April 10, 2024 Agenda and Packet: CLICK HERE Main topic: Concern over proposed new well permitting regulations Steve Torigiani, the district’s attorney, said Assembly Bill 2079, which would add new requirements to agricultural well permitting, could pose problems for the district. Torigiani expressed three main issues with the bill. …

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Paperwork delays blamed for flooding from overgrown rivers. Will the process work better this winter?

November 6, 2023

• by Jesse Vad, SJV Water

Entire towns flooded last winter because of permit delays, according to lawmakers and others. Debris from overgrown creeks and waterways up and down the state hadn’t been cleaned out in years for lack of proper permits. When water barreled down those channels, debris piled up, pushing water over levees and into hundreds of homes and…

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Kern County reverses course on ag well permitting

June 24, 2022

• by Lois Henry

In a complete turnaround from its stance earlier this week, Kern County late Thursday dropped its requirement that groundwater agencies make certain findings about proposed new agricultural wells before it would consider issuing permits for those wells. The situation had reached a boiling point in the local ag community as the Kern County Environmental Health…

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MEETING NOTES: Kern water managers concerned about new well permitting bill; “produced” water report and a new water/solar agreement

Paperwork delays blamed for flooding from overgrown rivers. Will the process work better this winter?

Kern County reverses course on ag well permitting

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