The Board voted to accept the Kings Subbasin Groundwater Allocation Framework, which establishes the total "bucket" of allocated groundwater for planning purposes for North Kings GSA at 445,600 acre-feet. This is broken into two categories: Native yield (~186,000 AF) — water from precipitation, mountain front runoff, river seepage, and deep percolation — and Surface Water in Ground (SWIG) (~259,000 AF) — water that returns to the aquifer from irrigation deliveries, canal seepage, M&I deep percolation, and intentional recharge. Critically, this does NOT implement allocations to individual member agencies or landowners. It commits the GSA to the overall number and methodology. How the 445,600 AF bucket gets divided among member agencies will be worked out in future GSA deliberations. The framework gives tools for demand-side management if sustainability triggers are hit, but no allocation schedule or individual limits were set at this time.
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