The Division has been working on the groundwater management plan for many years. A copy of the proposed groundwater management plan can be viewed by clicking here. The plan notes that safe groundwater yield in the area is 22,000 acre-feet, but current groundwater withdrawals/depletions are nearly 33,000 acre-feet -- which is unsustainable. In order to bring the system back in harmony, water rights are going to be permanently "phased out" over the next several decades, starting in 2043. By the year 2080, all water rights with priority dates later than December 5, 1951 will be gone and the system will (hopefully) be brought into balance.
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