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Southern Douglas County residents flagged as at-risk in debate over satellite wellfields and groundwater use
Summary
Commissioner Trisha Bernhardt warned that draft language about satellite wellfields and moving groundwater to population centers could leave southern rural residents without water; the commission asked consultants to add explicit impact analysis and protections before public release.
During review of the interim draft, Commissioner Trisha Bernhardt raised sharp concerns that language suggesting satellite wellfields in less-populated parts of Douglas County be used to convey water to population centers would not serve — and could harm — residents in the county’s southern areas who rely on private wells and lack water districts.
Bernhardt told the commission: “If you take it all from us and move it to the north, we're all in trouble,” and asked where the sentence in…
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