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Public and staff press for clearer fallowing and shallow-well mitigation plans; Mojave Pistachios transfer noted
Summary
Public comment urged the authority to develop a clearer transient fallowing program and staff said they will follow up; staff also reported a Mojave Pistachios purchase of a 3,622-acre-foot transient pool allocation and that the shallow-well mitigation program currently has no pending applications.
At the Oct. 8 meeting, the Indian Wells Valley Groundwater Authority received public comment urging staff to define a transient fallowing program included in the authority’s Groundwater Sustainability Plan, and staff said they will follow up with the caller and prepare a memo for the board.
Judy Decker, president of the Eastern Kern County Resource Conservation District, said the groundwater sustainability plan years earlier had offered a transient fallowing option for farmers but that the authority has not developed program details or implementation steps. “There is nothing in your document that talks about fallowing, how you’re going to go about doing it, or choices you’re going to offer,” Decker said.
Board members responded that…
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