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Kern’s final groundwater plan approved

February 6, 2020

• by Lois Henry

After months of fireworks over low-ball pumping numbers and concerns that some groundwater agencies wouldn’t get on board, Kern’s last Groundwater Sustainability Plan was approved Wednesday with barely a murmur. The Kern Groundwater Authority board of directors voted unanimously to adopt its final GSP with just two weeks to spare before the massive document is…

Salty water spat erupts over “no man’s land” of Mendota Pool

February 6, 2020

• by Lois Henry

The federal government has OKed a 20-year extension of a water exchange program for one Central Valley water district that another district says will illegally foul its water. The Bureau of Reclamation billed the exchange program as a way to “optimize water supplies and reduce pumping impacts” by allowing a group of Westlands Water District…

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SJV Water doin’ someSGMA talk on KGET Ch. 17

January 29, 2020

• by Lois Henry

KGET Ch. 17 Anchor Jim Scott in Bakersfield invited SJV Water back for more water talk this week. The show, Kern County In Depth, airs THIS Saturday (Feb. 1) at 6 p.m. on Channel 17. SJV Water Editor and CEO Lois Henry talks with Rosedale-Rio Bravo Water Storage District General Manager Eric Averett and Kern…

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Farmers looking for answers in groundwater plans

October 18, 2019

• by Lois Henry

Now that actual pumping amounts are coming out per the state’s new groundwater law, farmers, bankers, farm managers and others are getting a clearer picture of their post SGMA worlds. And they have questions. About 25 people attended a recent groundwater sustainability plan presentation in Shafter for landowners in the Shafter-Wasco Irrigation and North Kern…

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Kern’s final groundwater plan approved

Salty water spat erupts over “no man’s land” of Mendota Pool

SJV Water doin’ someSGMA talk on KGET Ch. 17

Farmers looking for answers in groundwater plans

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