2025 Allocation (Landowner Water Budgets Program) Contract Water: 163.72 af per contract holder (83,700 AF total at 54% SWP reliability) Supplemental SWSD Supplies: 163.43 af per GPSC payer (70,140 AFY average) Native Groundwater Yield: 0.15 af/ac - no pricing Precipitation: 0.59 af/ac - no pricing Temporary Consumptive Use Allowance (TCA): Variable declining to 0 by 2040 - current interim penalty $500/af for overuse Additional late penalty: $1,000 plus $100/day if unpaid after 45 days Total Water Budget Example: 338.73 af/ac in 2020 declining to 249.13 af/ac by 2040 Landowner Water Budgets began in 2022 with individual allocations based on land class and contractual participation in SWP or GPSC assessments, using remote sensing evapotranspiration data measured monthly by LandIQ to track actual consumption against budgets with no carryover credits allowed. The current enforcement uses interim SGMA penalties of $500/af for budget overages, while the proposed tiered pricing structure with rates from $5/af to $1,678/af awaits Proposition 218 approval anticipated in 2025, and water budgets are updated annually based on actual supplemental water acquisitions and changing SWP reliability estimates from DWR.
