The board approved a special assessment of $22.29 per acre with notices going out next week and payment due by mid-November. A three-year contract was approved for a Daily ET monitoring tool at 55 cents per acre to provide real-time evapotranspiration data to growers. Staff discovered a significant water accounting discrepancy of approximately 5,800 acre-feet that needs resolution with the agency board.
The district approved a new SGMA special assessment of $22.29 per acre to cover compliance costs and recover $1.5 million in reserves. State Board staff recommended the Kern County Subbasin be returned to state oversight rather than remaining under probationary status, citing positive progress on groundwater sustainability planning. Despite Zone 7 not delivering banked water this year, the district maintained its 1.7 acre-foot per acre water allocation through increased city water supplies...
