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Cuyama Valley residents and service providers tell Senate SGMA has not yet cut basin pumping; small users bear uncertainty
Summary
Lynn Carlisle of the Cuyama Valley Family Resource Center told the Senate committee that the basin’s GSP requires about a 60 percent pumping reduction but that no mandatory cuts have occurred to date.
At a Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee hearing, Lynn Carlisle, executive director of the Cuyama Valley Family Resource Center, told legislators that after a decade of SGMA implementation the Cuyama Valley still has not begun the required pumping reductions in its central management area.
Carlisle described the basin as isolated and economically disadvantaged, with a population she estimated at about 1,800 people. She said the GSP’s five‑year update estimates basin pumping at roughly 42,400 acre‑feet per year, with a sustainable yield of about 16,800 acre‑feet—meaning the plan’s authors…
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