The Board reached consensus to take no action to curtail out-of-district replenishment water deliveries, meaning surface water will continue flowing to lands outside TID but within the Turlock sub-basin for the remainder of the season. Staff estimated the total impact to TID growers at approximately 1 inch on-farm if deliveries continue through October, or 0.6 inches on-farm for the July–October period alone (~0.4 inches if deliveries only continue through end of June). The Board acknowledged this is a small risk to in-district growers but pointed to water savings from canal modernization projects (including the Total Channel Control pilot and upcoming Lateral 5½ reservoir) as offsetting or exceeding that impact. The Board also charged staff to develop new evaluation criteria to replace the current 795-foot October 7th Don Pedro elevation benchmark before year-end, recognizing it has been effectively set aside two years running.
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