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Mid Kings River GSA reviews draft sustainable management criteria and tradeoffs for subsidence, quality and storage
Summary
Consultants presented draft sustainable management criteria (SMCs) including thresholds for undesirable results, an estimate of cumulative groundwater storage reduction (~3.5 million acre‑feet to 2040 under the draft method), and tradeoffs between allowable water‑level declines and mitigation costs.
Consultants walked the Mid Kings River GSA board through draft sustainable management criteria (SMCs) on Dec. 16, highlighting how proposed minimum thresholds and undesirable results would be measured and mitigated.
Key elements included water‑level thresholds by zone, an approach for handling fallowed land in ET‑based accounting,…
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