Assembly Bill 1044, introduced by Assembly Member Alexandra Macedo (R-Tulare) Feb. 20, would create a new agency to be administered through Tulare County and that would cover half of Eastern Tule’s original acreage. The bill was written at the county’s request after Eastern Tule lost all of its irrigation district members. … The new groundwater entity will include the Hope and Ducor water districts, neither of which have surface water contracts. … But under recent Proposition 218 elections, the districts were able to levy land assessments to fund a study to look at connecting to the Friant-Kern Canal. 

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