New(ish) Kern groundwater authority gets underway
A somewhat new groundwater authority held its first meeting Monday with a mandate to represent Kern County lands not covered by existing water districts. The so-called “non-districted lands” within the Kern subbasin (the San Joaquin Valley portion of Kern) had sort of been previously represented by the Kern Groundwater Authority KGA. But the KGA has been disintegrating over the past two years as member water districts left to form their own groundwater sustainability agencies. The KGA held its final meeting on May 22 and has since morphed into the Kern Non-Districted Lands Authority (KNDLA).
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