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State takes over groundwater plans in San Joaquin Valley

03/03/23 7:03 AM By Brad Hooker
KEYWORDS curtailing groundwater overpumping in the Central Valley implementing the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act protecting domestic wells from groundwater pumping reversing land subsidence and damage to infrastructure

California has entered a new phase for SGMA, in rejecting six plans and sending them to the water board to act as the regulatory backstop.

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Brad Hooker
Sacramento Bureau Chief, Agri-Pulse West

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