North County water district denied role in basin management
–On Tuesday, San Luis Obispo County supervisors declined a request from the Estrella-El Pomar-Creston Water District to manage areas of the Paso Robles Groundwater Basin currently under county jurisdiction.
The decision means that the district’s members will be barred from a multi-agency process of writing a groundwater sustainability plan for the 780-square-mile aquifer over the next two years, per the state’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act.
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