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Fox Canyon GMA warns nonreporting could block annual allocations; staff pushes tech fixes and enforcement
Summary
Agency staff reported uneven returns on semiannual groundwater extraction statements and said missing data prevents calculating carryover and overuse; staff plans notices of violation and is pursuing technical fixes including AMI integration, meter standards and data triangulation.
Agency staff told the Fox Canyon Groundwater Management Agency board on Nov. 3 that incomplete and missing semiannual groundwater extraction statements threaten the agency's ability to calculate annual carryover and levy overuse assessments.
"We cannot calculate carryover and use and overuse if we're missing information from any of these periods," said Dr. Farai Kasake, agency staff, summarizing reporting work done for the 2025-2 reporting period. Kasake said staff mailed 405 semiannual "com" code statements; as of Nov. 3 about 195 (roughly 48%) had been returned and 90 of those were processed as complete. He later said staff had processed a higher count (239) by a subsequent internal check.
The agency has been…
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