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State Water Board adopts resolution to return Kern County Subbasin to DWR oversight, sets verification caveats
Summary
The State Water Resources Control Board voted unanimously Sept. 17 to adopt a resolution that sends the Kern County Subbasin back to the Department of Water Resources for oversight, contingent on staff verification that three remaining priorities in the subbasin’s 2025 GSP have been adequately addressed.
The State Water Resources Control Board on Sept. 17 adopted a resolution forwarding the Kern County Subbasin’s 2025 Groundwater Sustainability Plan (GSP) back to the Department of Water Resources for continued oversight, after concluding that most state‑identified deficiencies had been addressed but that three remaining priority items must be confirmed in the final adopted plans.
Board staff told the panel earlier in the day that the GSP submissions and follow‑up revisions appear to resolve most deficiencies identified after DWR’s March 2023 inadequate determination. ‘‘The staff recommended returning the subbasin to DWR’s oversight pursuant to Water Code section 1073 3.4,’’ staff said in their presentation, while noting three conditions that must be confirmed in the final adopted GSPs.
Those conditions are: (1) an adequate mitigation program for drinking‑water wells impacted by any…
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