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Central Coast, growers and coalition leaders tell panel numeric nitrate limits are premature
Summary
Grower representatives and some coalition presenters urged the expert panel not to recommend enforceable numeric limits now, citing limited regional data, agronomic feasibility and potential economic harm; they asked the panel to treat A minus R as an educational target while data collection and outreach continue.
Representatives of Central Coast growers and coalition groups told the State Water Resources Control Board's expert panel that adopting enforceable numeric application or discharge limits now would be premature and likely to cause regional economic harm.
Abby Taylor, speaking for a group of Central Coast agricultural organizations, said the coast's irrigated acres and crop mix differ from the Central Valley and argued the data record is too short to support regulatory numeric limits. She said the Central Coast has only recently scaled up reporting and that many growers remain in transition; she described the region's reporting rollout as a multi-year learning process and urged time to refine agronomic…
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