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Where’s the water? Napa County launches study of aquifers from Angwin to American Canyon

Posted by: Maven on July 6, 2009 at 10:42 pm

From the Napa Valley Register:

Napa County wants to find out what it knows and what it doesn’t about its underground aquifers, and is drilling through the data to get a clear assessment of the water supply under the heart of the valley.

Napa County has hired an engineering firm, Luhdorff & Scalmanini of Woodland, to go through the groundwater data and try to paint as full a picture of the water supply as possible from what might be sketchy information. The project is expected to take between seven months and a year and cost around $230,000.

What the engineers find could result in policy changes. Maybe the county will have to drill monitoring wells or ask private landowners if they would volunteer information or allow their wells to be monitored.

Jim Lincoln, chair of the natural resources committee at the Napa County Farm Bureau and vineyard manager for Beckstoffer Vineyards, said people get really nervous when you start talking groundwater, even studying groundwater. “They believe the next logical step is groundwater regulations, and that frightens a lot of people,” he said.

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July 6, 2009 · Filed Under Northern California

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