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CCID official urges Los Banos to amend groundwater sustainability plan, warns of 60,000-acre-foot overdraft
Summary
Benjamin Fenters, deputy general manager of CCID, told the City Council during public comment that the subbasin faces an estimated 60,000 acre-foot annual overdraft and urged amendments to the City of Los Banos's Groundwater Sustainability Plan to prevent increased overdraft from growth.
Benjamin Fenters, deputy general manager of CCID, told the Los Banos City Council during public comment that the groundwater subbasin that contains the city is overdrafted by roughly 60,000 acre-feet per year and urged the council to amend the city’s Groundwater Sustainability Plan before adoption.
“Everyone’s familiar with the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, or SGMA,” Fenters said. “The Groundwater Sustainability Plan is the governing plan for our water subbasin here and is what our GSAs have to abide by and implement to achieve sustainability.”
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