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Legislature to consider groundwater management as part of its water package, something Ventura County has already successfully implemented

Posted by: Maven on October 26, 2009 at 8:25 am

From the Ventura County Star:

“SACRAMENTO — When Gerhardt Hubner left Ventura County a few weeks back to attend a conference on groundwater in Sacramento, it must have felt in some way as if he had entered a time machine.

The buzz at the conference was about one of the pillars of the comprehensive water package the Legislature may be on the verge of passing, a provision to require water agencies statewide to monitor the elevation of underground basins and publicly report their findings.

In much of the state, it is a wildly controversial idea, and bills to require that sort of systematic monitoring have three times been vetoed in recent years by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

To Hubner, the deputy director of the Ventura County Watershed Protection District who also heads the operations of a special agency that oversees much of the county’s groundwater resources, the others might as well have been debating whether cigarette smoking should be allowed in office buildings.

In Ventura County, it’s an issue that was settled long ago. …”

Find out how Ventura County successfully manages it’s groundwater resources by clicking here.

October 26, 2009 · Filed Under Groundwater, Legislation - State & Federal

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