Tag: Rob Gailey
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Managing Domestic Well Impacts from Overdraft and Balancing Stakeholder Interests
by Robert M. Gailey and Jay R. Lund The historic drought in California from 2012 through 2016 brought unprecedented groundwater level declines and reports of dry domestic supply wells. This was particularly true in the Central Valley. New research on conditions in Tulare County during the drought provides insight regarding tradeoffs in interests between domestic…
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Keeping accounts for groundwater sustainability
Rob Gailey, Graham Fogg, Thomas Harter, Jay Lund, Helen Dahlke, Richard Frank, Tim Ginn, Richard Howitt, Mimi Jenkins, Bonnie Magnuson, Josué Medellín-Azuara, and Samuel Sandoval Solis The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act of 2014 creates an opportunity to establish standards for the way California accounts for its stores of groundwater, which provide up to 60 percent…