Support for groundwater conservation efforts isn’t the issue. What those efforts will look like is the question that continues to confront Groundwater Management District No. 1. While landowners and operators within the five-county GMD are overwhelming in support of establishing a Local Enhanced Management Area (LEMA), determining how to reduce water allocations will be the subject of hearings over the next year. A tentative timetable to put the LEMA into effect is January 2023.
Source: Scott County Record
