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3 days ago · Under probation, groundwater extractors in the Tulare Lake subbasin face annual fees of $300 per well and $20 per acre-foot pumped, plus a late reporting fee of 25%. SGMA also requires well owners to file annual groundwater extraction reports. Last week, Kings County landowners in the Tulare Lake Subbasin rejected groundwater fees proposed by ...
1 day ago · Last week, Kings County landowners in the Tulare Lake Subbasin rejected groundwater fees proposed by the Mid-Kings River Groundwater Sustainability Agency. The GSA, overseen by the city of Hanford, Kings County and the Kings County Water District, proposed a $25 per acre assessment and a $95 per acre-foot groundwater extraction fee to cover ...
It’s possible for sure but it requires wetland restoration and water retention methods in the hills and mountains like rock check dams and beaver dam analogs. The biggest thing that would help recharge the aquifer is to allow Tulare lake to live and sit in the Central Valley and soak into the ground and exist.
5 days ago · April 29, 2024 Modesto Bee. A tech giant is helping restore these Sacramento Valley rice fields to a floodplain. Here’s why. A thousand years ago, native fish and birds rested in a fertile floodplain at the intersection of the Sacramento and Feather rivers and Butte creek along their migratory routes.
1 day ago · Last month, the Tulare Lake Subbasin became the first subbasin in the state to be placed under probation. Other critically overdrafted subbasins with inadequate plans include the Tule, Kaweah, Kern County, Delta-Mendota and Chowchilla subbasins.
4 days ago · Watershed Restoration is the Cornerstone of Eagle Lake’s Fishy Business. Melissa Grim is the Sierra Nevada AmeriCorps Partnership (SNAP) River Assessment and Restoration Assistant for the California Headwaters team. Beneath the meandering channels that run across a Sierra Nevada meadow in spring, your eye may catch silver flashes dancing ...
4 days ago · A couple of weeks ago, the California Water Resources Control Board put five agricultural water agencies in Kings County on probation for failing to adequately manage underground water supplies in the Tulare Lake Basin that have been seriously depleted due to overpumping. It was the state’s first major enforcement action under the State ...
