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IWVGA receives 2024 water‑year report showing continued overdraft; no minimum thresholds exceeded in 2024
Summary
Staff presented the groundwater authority’s 2024 annual report: water year 2024 recorded 3.41 inches of precipitation, an estimated loss of about 9,194 acre‑feet of groundwater storage for the year and a five‑year cumulative loss of 67,553 acre‑feet; estimated pumping was 20,840 acre‑feet, about 2.7 times the authority’s stated sustainable yield.
Heather (Stetson) presented the Indian Wells Valley Groundwater Authority’s water‑year 2024 annual report and noted the board received and filed the report without additional action.
Key figures presented from the annual report: total precipitation in water year 2024 was 3.41 inches, classifying the year as ‘‘normal’’ under the report’s classification. The report estimates a loss of groundwater in storage in 2024 of approximately 9,194 acre‑feet (estimated using the modified Hicks…
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