State Water Board panel reviews irrigated-lands program, summarizes expert recommendations and reporting framework
Aug 19, 2025
A State Water Resources Control Board expert panel meeting reviewed earlier expert-panel findings and the board's 2023 order, emphasizing coalitions, per-field reporting, three-year baselines and combined irrigation-nitrogen management; staff asked the panel to use scientific recommendations to refine the program.
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The State Water Resources Control Board convened an expert-panel session on irrigated lands and nitrate management that reviewed prior expert recommendations, summarized the board's 2023 San Joaquin petition order and described how reporting and coalition-based implementation are intended to work.
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