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Fox Canyon board backs one‑year extension of Las Posas operating yield while modeling is completed
Summary
The board authorized staff to recommend to the court extending the Las Posas Valley Basin initial operating yield of 40,000 acre‑feet through water year 2025, contingent on consultant analysis showing no adverse effect to achieving sustainability by 2040; modeling and timing remain points of discussion.
The Fox Canyon Groundwater Management Agency on Jan. 22, 2025 authorized staff and outside counsel to ask the court to extend the Las Posas Valley Basin’s initial operating yield of 40,000 acre‑feet through water year 2025, provided pending technical analysis shows the extension will not impede achieving sustainability by 2040.
Jason, assistant agency counsel, described the operating yield as “the amount of water in the basin that can be used by water right holders,” and explained that the basin optimization yield study required under the Las Posas adjudication cannot be completed until December 2025 at the earliest. The study must set operating yields year‑by‑year through…
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