Farm Bureau backs Paso Robles groundwater basin authority
Farm Bureau cites property rights, regulation in support
Farm Bureau cites property rights, regulation in support– The San Luis Obispo County Farm Bureau announced its support for the newly formed Joint Powers Authority (JPA) established to manage the Paso Robles Groundwater Basin under the California Sustainable Groundwater Management Act.
In a public statement, the Farm Bureau emphasized that the new JPA represents the most efficient and cost-effective means of complying with the groundwater management law while ensuring long-term water availability for all beneficial users of the basin.
The statement is as follows:
San Luis Obispo County Farm Bureau supports and defends sustainable production agriculture, from small vegetable farmers to cattle ranchers to large vineyards. Our underlying principles have always been: Protect private property rights; Reduce or limit taxes and fees; Reduce Regulatory burden; Maintain local control of our destiny; And create public awareness of the realities of food production in California. We believe in informed, constructive dialogue and participating in the regulatory and governing processes set forth in our local, state, federal laws, and Constitution.
In line with the above-stated principles, we support managing the Paso Robles Groundwater Basin under the California Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA). We believe the newly formed Joint Powers Authority is the most efficient and cost-effective structure to not only comply with SGMA but to ultimately ensure the basin will have sufficient water now and in the future for all beneficial water users.
San Luis Obispo County Farm Bureau remains committed to the following objectives: De minimis and livestock users will not pay fees towards the management of the basin nor towards projects whose aim is to increase the availability of groundwater in the basin; Basin management will operate efficiently to maintain the lowest rates possible to comply with SGMA; Projects whose aim is to increase water supply to the basin will be evaluated on an individual basis as to cost and benefit.
All fine and dandy but where is the opposition to water banking and sales of water from the basin?
Did the Joint Powers Authority members bring one more drop of water to the basin? Did they act as per the earlier Advisory Sub Committee on the Emergency Water Ordinance to recharge the Basin in all these years? Are they violating the legal president of the Quiet Title lawsuit to require owners of land to pay a tax to total millions of dollars over the next five years for a useless governing bureaucratic group to allow the overliers who own and purchased the land and the water rights to use the water of their private land – an unnecessary tax and in my opinion illegal tax… (but they will not allow smaller owners the right to vote on this when there is no guarantee in the future, some joint powers, authority entity will actually pay the taxes for them.). This is an unnecessary proposal, quite illegal and an insult to land owners’ rights. Instead do the right thing: form water cooperatives for those with shallow wells to provide adequate water and stop approving construction with shallow Wells.Recharge the Basin in the wet years! City of Paso: > use your Naci water instead of pumping the Basin. …..Cheers
All fine and dandy but where is the opposition to water banking and sales of water from the basin?
Did the Joint Powers Authority members bring one more drop of water to the basin? Did they act as per the earlier Advisory Sub Committee on the Emergency Water Ordinance to recharge the Basin in all these years? Are they violating the legal president of the Quiet Title lawsuit to require owners of land to pay a tax to total millions of dollars over the next five years for a useless governing bureaucratic group to allow the overliers who own and purchased the land and the water rights to use the water of their private land – an unnecessary tax and in my opinion illegal tax… (but they will not allow smaller owners the right to vote on this when there is no guarantee in the future, some joint powers, authority entity will actually pay the taxes for them.). This is an unnecessary proposal, quite illegal and an insult to land owners’ rights. Instead do the right thing: form water cooperatives for those with shallow wells to provide adequate water and stop approving construction with shallow Wells.Recharge the Basin in the wet years! City of Paso: > use your Naci water instead of pumping the Basin. …..Cheers