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Farm Bureaus join forces to address water quality

Posted by: Maven on March 3, 2010 at 8:03 am

From the California Farm Bureau Federation:

“Concern has switched to action for farmers and ranchers on California’s Central Coast. Faced with what they see as an inflexible and flawed proposal from the regional water board related to renewing the area’s irrigated lands waste discharge management program, the agricultural community now is preparing alternative measures for the board to consider.

Seven county Farm Bureaus have joined forces to develop and present more workable measures. The joint Farm Bureau effort is aimed at highlighting methods that will help improve water quality in watersheds throughout the region while also supporting food and floral production in one of the state’s most productive agricultural regions.

California Farm Bureau Federation water policy and legal experts are supporting the effort to develop new, farm-led water quality improvement alternatives to present to the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board.

“We advised the regional water board that the current staff proposal is unworkable and that the agricultural community would develop their own proposal by April,” said Kevin Merrill, Santa Barbara County Farm Bureau president. … “

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March 3, 2010 · Filed Under Water Quality

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