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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 12:36 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As firefighters work to contain a deadly wildfire in Northern California, another fire is rapidly expanding, threatening new communities and prompting fresh evacuations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mendocino Complex Fire is now the second-largest fire in state history. Tricia Austin, public information officer for the Mendocino Complex, tells NPR the previous second-largest fire was the Cedar Fire in 2003, which burned 273,246 acres. 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class=\"wp-caption-text\">A firefighter gathers water from a pool while battling the Ranch Fire near Clearlake Oaks, Calif., on Saturday. \u003ccite>(Noah Berger/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s called a “complex” because it consists of two fires being fought simultaneously, KQED’s Hutson explains — the River and the Ranch fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fires … are burning really close together in Mendocino and Lake counties, which are about 20 miles north of the Napa wine country,” she tells NPR’s \u003cem>Morning Edition\u003c/em>. “As a whole, they’re 33 percent contained. There’s over 9,000 structures threatened and 130 destroyed, so they are very destructive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1928738\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1928738\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/gettyimages-1011177650_custom-39c82f7bdf8f38c68eaf0b4e84075b56e9d3b0b5-2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Debbie Prior leads a horse to safety as the Ranch Fire tears down New Long Valley Road near Clearlake Oaks, Calif., on Saturday. The Ranch Fire is part of the Mendocino Complex.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The communities in the region are largely rural and low-income, which makes the fires even more devastating, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s really a lack of affordable housing in the area, so low-income people whose houses get burned down will usually go to where ever they have friends and family they can stay with in the immediate aftermath of the fire,” Hutson says. “And if that’s not in the area, they can miss out on a lot of help from nonprofits and the government in getting them back into housing in the area where they have lived for years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1928742\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1928742\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/gettyimages-1011177152_custom-0c8f2a32514d7a9f50828397cd2ec9361c0699df-s2300-c85-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/gettyimages-1011177152_custom-0c8f2a32514d7a9f50828397cd2ec9361c0699df-s2300-c85-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/gettyimages-1011177152_custom-0c8f2a32514d7a9f50828397cd2ec9361c0699df-s2300-c85-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/gettyimages-1011177152_custom-0c8f2a32514d7a9f50828397cd2ec9361c0699df-s2300-c85-1-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/gettyimages-1011177152_custom-0c8f2a32514d7a9f50828397cd2ec9361c0699df-s2300-c85-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/gettyimages-1011177152_custom-0c8f2a32514d7a9f50828397cd2ec9361c0699df-s2300-c85-1-1200x799.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/gettyimages-1011177152_custom-0c8f2a32514d7a9f50828397cd2ec9361c0699df-s2300-c85-1-1920x1278.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/gettyimages-1011177152_custom-0c8f2a32514d7a9f50828397cd2ec9361c0699df-s2300-c85-1-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/gettyimages-1011177152_custom-0c8f2a32514d7a9f50828397cd2ec9361c0699df-s2300-c85-1-960x639.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/gettyimages-1011177152_custom-0c8f2a32514d7a9f50828397cd2ec9361c0699df-s2300-c85-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/gettyimages-1011177152_custom-0c8f2a32514d7a9f50828397cd2ec9361c0699df-s2300-c85-1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/gettyimages-1011177152_custom-0c8f2a32514d7a9f50828397cd2ec9361c0699df-s2300-c85-1-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex Schenck carries a water bucket while fighting to save his home near Clearlake Oaks, Calif. on Saturday, as the Ranch Fire approached. \u003ccite>(Noah Berger/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Farther south, the Ferguson Fire — burning for three weeks now — has forced the indefinite closure of the most popular part of Yosemite National Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, fires are also burning in \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/4a65fcb6c8f5429d91a158692d1db9f6/Crews-battle-fires-in-Washington-state,-Idaho\">Idaho\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kxly.com/news/crews-still-trying-to-contain-angel-springs-fire-near-davenport/777809048\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oregon-wildfire-near-dufur-nearly-triples-in-size-overnight-2018-08-02/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oregon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The numerous simultaneous blazes have strained the nation’s firefighting resources. Thousands of firefighters are actively working on the ground, and crews from Australia and New Zealand have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/fires/article215880020.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">flown in to assist\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1928748\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1928748\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/gettyimages-1006841212_wide-74198b11b3fdbe0510db207e0754a4692160d996-s2300-c85-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/gettyimages-1006841212_wide-74198b11b3fdbe0510db207e0754a4692160d996-s2300-c85-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/gettyimages-1006841212_wide-74198b11b3fdbe0510db207e0754a4692160d996-s2300-c85-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/gettyimages-1006841212_wide-74198b11b3fdbe0510db207e0754a4692160d996-s2300-c85-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/gettyimages-1006841212_wide-74198b11b3fdbe0510db207e0754a4692160d996-s2300-c85-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/gettyimages-1006841212_wide-74198b11b3fdbe0510db207e0754a4692160d996-s2300-c85-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/gettyimages-1006841212_wide-74198b11b3fdbe0510db207e0754a4692160d996-s2300-c85-1920x1079.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/gettyimages-1006841212_wide-74198b11b3fdbe0510db207e0754a4692160d996-s2300-c85-1180x663.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/gettyimages-1006841212_wide-74198b11b3fdbe0510db207e0754a4692160d996-s2300-c85-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/gettyimages-1006841212_wide-74198b11b3fdbe0510db207e0754a4692160d996-s2300-c85-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/gettyimages-1006841212_wide-74198b11b3fdbe0510db207e0754a4692160d996-s2300-c85-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/gettyimages-1006841212_wide-74198b11b3fdbe0510db207e0754a4692160d996-s2300-c85-520x292.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A deer stands on a road covered with fire retardant near Redding, Calif., as the Carr Fire burned in the area on July 28. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The headline-grabbing Carr Fire, located in Northern California near the city of Redding, is now 45 percent contained, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. The immediate threat to people’s homes has been greatly reduced, Sonja Hutson of member station KQED \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/08/06/635907928/communities-in-california-continue-to-be-ravaged-by-wildfires\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1928752\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1928752\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/ap_18210096192917_custom-ee3e2a39336d0afe727b6675feead5bfad7885c0-s2300-c85-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/ap_18210096192917_custom-ee3e2a39336d0afe727b6675feead5bfad7885c0-s2300-c85-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/ap_18210096192917_custom-ee3e2a39336d0afe727b6675feead5bfad7885c0-s2300-c85-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/ap_18210096192917_custom-ee3e2a39336d0afe727b6675feead5bfad7885c0-s2300-c85-1-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/ap_18210096192917_custom-ee3e2a39336d0afe727b6675feead5bfad7885c0-s2300-c85-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/ap_18210096192917_custom-ee3e2a39336d0afe727b6675feead5bfad7885c0-s2300-c85-1-1200x799.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/ap_18210096192917_custom-ee3e2a39336d0afe727b6675feead5bfad7885c0-s2300-c85-1-1920x1278.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/ap_18210096192917_custom-ee3e2a39336d0afe727b6675feead5bfad7885c0-s2300-c85-1-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/ap_18210096192917_custom-ee3e2a39336d0afe727b6675feead5bfad7885c0-s2300-c85-1-960x639.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/ap_18210096192917_custom-ee3e2a39336d0afe727b6675feead5bfad7885c0-s2300-c85-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/ap_18210096192917_custom-ee3e2a39336d0afe727b6675feead5bfad7885c0-s2300-c85-1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/ap_18210096192917_custom-ee3e2a39336d0afe727b6675feead5bfad7885c0-s2300-c85-1-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A firefighter walks along a containment line while battling a wildfire in Redding, Calif., on July 28. \u003ccite>(Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/08/05/635789040/california-fires-spread-rapidly-killing-seventh-victim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">At least seven people have been killed\u003c/a> in that fire, which has burned more than 160,000 acres of land over the past two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late last week, state fire officials \u003ca href=\"http://calfire.ca.gov/communications/communications_StatewideFireSummary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced\u003c/a> that the Carr Fire had become the sixth most destructive fire in California history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1928737\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/gettyimages-1009260288_custom-54911234d7c6b8fd24d128838e3a0d25d15e0e47-2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, attention has shifted to the Mendocino Complex Fire, which now poses a threat to more than 9,000 structures northwest of Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1928751\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1928751\" 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class=\"wp-caption-text\">A firefighter gathers water from a pool while battling the Ranch Fire near Clearlake Oaks, Calif., on Saturday. \u003ccite>(Noah Berger/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s called a “complex” because it consists of two fires being fought simultaneously, KQED’s Hutson explains — the River and the Ranch fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fires … are burning really close together in Mendocino and Lake counties, which are about 20 miles north of the Napa wine country,” she tells NPR’s \u003cem>Morning Edition\u003c/em>. “As a whole, they’re 33 percent contained. There’s over 9,000 structures threatened and 130 destroyed, so they are very destructive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1928738\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1928738\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/gettyimages-1011177650_custom-39c82f7bdf8f38c68eaf0b4e84075b56e9d3b0b5-2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Debbie Prior leads a horse to safety as the Ranch Fire tears down New Long Valley Road near Clearlake Oaks, Calif., on Saturday. 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"content": "\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://water.ca.gov/Programs/Groundwater-Management/SGMA-Groundwater-Management\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sustainable Groundwater Management Act\u003c/a> (SGMA), adopted in 2014, will change more than groundwater. The requirement to end overdraft will also transform land use, a massive side effect yet to be widely recognized.[contextly_sidebar id=”QOi46UTw5U1BAOGXmVwGXKGO4eIf3nYb”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parts of California will literally look different once the law takes full effect. It could put some farmers out of business. It could change how others farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some areas, farms will have to be fallowed to reduce groundwater demand. That idled farmland will have lots of important new uses. Some could become wildlife habitat or groundwater recharge basins. Others could be useful for solar energy development and other semi-industrial uses. Undoubtedly, some will become housing subdivisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City and county government leaders are starting to realize there’s a lot at stake. The landscape itself will change as groundwater extraction changes. Without careful planning, property tax revenues that fund a wide variety of essential government services could be compromised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t believe it is a groundwater law. I believe it’s a land use law,” said Lorelei Oviatt, director of planning and natural resources in Kern County, the southernmost county in California’s fertile San Joaquin Valley. “In my mind, SGMA has actually opened up doors for new technology – new ways of looking at how we use our land.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kern County was the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/news/business/agriculture/article174175846.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">most productive\u003c/a> farming county in the state last year in the nation’s most productive farming region. The total value of its agricultural production was $7.2 billion in 2017. Lots of that success was built on groundwater overdraft – which must soon end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kern County isn’t alone. Many other California counties are in the same situation. All but three of the 14 groundwater basins in the San Joaquin Valley are ranked as critically overdrafted. Ten others, mostly along the Central Coast, are also critically overdrafted. Several dozen more throughout the state are ranked as high or medium priority, which also face deadlines to bring their aquifers into balance, meaning extraction and replenishment are equalized.[contextly_sidebar id=”h4pBKE0Rb4uVuMszqwXymlJQ2CvTD7WJ”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many other aquifers in the state are already in balance, and now their managers must figure out how to keep them that way – which means land use will become an issue for all aquifers in the state, said Ellen Hanak, director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/water/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Water Policy Center\u003c/a> at the Public Policy Institute of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody everywhere who is implementing SGMA is going to be thinking about how to protect areas that are good for recharge,” said Hanak. “People didn’t think about that in the past, and now they’re going to have to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, groundwater managers, for the first time, will be paying attention to where new housing is built, and there may be more resistance to sprawl-type suburban development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best groundwater recharge areas have certain soil types that are good at absorbing water. These areas have already been mapped by, among others, the \u003ca href=\"https://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/sagbi/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">California \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/sagbi/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Soil Resource Lab\u003c/a> at the University of California, Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"extendsBeyondTextColumn\" src=\"https://newsdeeply.imgix.net/20180806000546/BeeFloodedFieldKasler1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stormwater floods the 5-acre almond orchard of farmer Nick Blom in an experiment in 2016 to restore the drought-depleted aquifer in Modesto, Calif. (Paul Kitagaki, The Sacramento Bee)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Protecting recharge zones from urbanization will become a new focus of growth management, but it can’t be the only focus. In areas like the San Joaquin Valley, there is not a lot of surface water available for recharge because most of it is diverted from Northern California and already in high demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That leaves storm runoff as the main recharge option, and many areas of the San Joaquin Valley are well suited to that: The valley was a giant floodplain, after all, before it was developed for farming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But storm runoff is not available in all years. In addition, as the PPIC notes in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/publication/replenishing-groundwater-in-the-san-joaquin-valley/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent report\u003c/a>, most available storm runoff occurs in the north part of the San Joaquin Valley, while the best recharge lands are in the south. Hence, new infrastructure will be needed to channel flood flows to basins where it can be recharged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At best, you can probably meet up to a quarter of the deficit with additional recharge,” Hanak said. “That means you’ve still got a big gap to fill. So there’s a growing recognition that this is going to mean some land coming out of production in the valley.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She estimates 10–12 percent of farmland in the San Joaquin Valley will have to be fallowed as a conservation measure to reduce demand on groundwater. That doesn’t sound like a lot. But it amounts to about 600,000 acres – roughly equal to seven cities the size of Fresno.[contextly_sidebar id=”HwgmZfMBhjUHq1pYaaNOEQxCVtqOSm7g”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How all that land gets reused is a huge issue for the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of good farmland is also suitable for groundwater recharge, and the two are not incompatible. University of California research found that 3.6 million acres of crops in the state may be \u003ca href=\"http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=18393\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suitable for recharge\u003c/a>. At the right time and in the right quantities, shallow flooding works on crops as diverse as alfalfa, wine grapes and almonds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kara Heckert, state director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.farmland.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">American Farmland Trust\u003c/a>, said it is important to make sure the most productive farmland is spared from fallowing. The nonprofit recently published a report that found 323,000 acres of farmland in the San Joaquin Valley could be lost to development by 2050 as suburban sprawl creeps out from cities like Lodi, Manteca, Hanford and Bakersfield. About half of that acreage is considered high-value farmland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The message is that cities, counties, farmers and groundwater sustainability agencies (GSAs) need to work together in new ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Land quality across the San Joaquin Valley should be a consideration used by [GSAs] when they are determining groundwater allocations within their districts,” said Heckert. “Ensuring the best agricultural land continues to receive adequate groundwater supply will help maintain California’s agricultural production and natural heritage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanak said governments could offer a variety of incentives to derive the most benefit from farmland retirement. Grants and tax breaks, for instance, could encourage fallowing in certain areas to create new wildlife refuge areas or to expand existing refuges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less productive farmland near utility corridors could be rezoned for alternative energy development. This would encourage crop fallowing to cut groundwater use while also boosting property taxes collected on these lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If farmland is simply fallowed and left bare, Oviatt said, local property taxes will suffer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"extendsBeyondTextColumn\" src=\"https://newsdeeply.imgix.net/20180806000510/900_08_us_ca_81_2031.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A new water well being drilled in an almond orchard in Tulare County, Calif., in 2014. (Citizens of the Planet/Education Images/UIG via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It can’t just all become open space,” she said. “Open space doesn’t pay enough property taxes to keep our sheriff and our parks and libraries alive. As a land use planner, I believe it’s my responsibility to make sure this works for everyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oviatt noted that local governments face a conflict in planning their growth. State laws encourage them to both conserve water and build more homes to address the housing affordability crisis in California. Those goals are in conflict, especially in a region like the San Joaquin Valley, where many local communities rely on groundwater, and SGMA will make that groundwater harder to come by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not having a big enough dialogue about how the new water rules fit in with this whole idea of building more houses,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One strategy, she said, would be to require all new homes to include on-site gray-water recycling. Another is a water trading scheme for residential development. Kern County already does this in the Tehachapi area, a mountainous community east of Bakersfield that relies on sparse groundwater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A developer who wants to build a 50-home subdivision in Tehachapi can buy the water he needs from other unbuilt lots in the region, if he can find willing sellers. The process concentrates both the water use and the housing development. Something similar could work throughout the San Joaquin Valley to control where development occurs and where groundwater gets pumped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need more tools in this new water world we’re in,” Oviatt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SGMA has been criticized for its distant deadlines, because hundreds of new wells are being drilled in the meantime, putting additional strain on groundwater. But it may turn out to be a good thing that this law creeps along like a wagon train. It will take years to manage all the land use changes that will accompany changes in groundwater use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think anybody is under the illusion that it’s all going to work perfectly,” said Hanak. “The good thing about this is, it’s not an overnight thing that’s going to happen. 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Several dozen more throughout the state are ranked as high or medium priority, which also face deadlines to bring their aquifers into balance, meaning extraction and replenishment are equalized.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many other aquifers in the state are already in balance, and now their managers must figure out how to keep them that way – which means land use will become an issue for all aquifers in the state, said Ellen Hanak, director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/water/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Water Policy Center\u003c/a> at the Public Policy Institute of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody everywhere who is implementing SGMA is going to be thinking about how to protect areas that are good for recharge,” said Hanak. “People didn’t think about that in the past, and now they’re going to have to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, groundwater managers, for the first time, will be paying attention to where new housing is built, and there may be more resistance to sprawl-type suburban development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best groundwater recharge areas have certain soil types that are good at absorbing water. 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(Paul Kitagaki, The Sacramento Bee)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Protecting recharge zones from urbanization will become a new focus of growth management, but it can’t be the only focus. In areas like the San Joaquin Valley, there is not a lot of surface water available for recharge because most of it is diverted from Northern California and already in high demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That leaves storm runoff as the main recharge option, and many areas of the San Joaquin Valley are well suited to that: The valley was a giant floodplain, after all, before it was developed for farming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But storm runoff is not available in all years. In addition, as the PPIC notes in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/publication/replenishing-groundwater-in-the-san-joaquin-valley/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent report\u003c/a>, most available storm runoff occurs in the north part of the San Joaquin Valley, while the best recharge lands are in the south. Hence, new infrastructure will be needed to channel flood flows to basins where it can be recharged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At best, you can probably meet up to a quarter of the deficit with additional recharge,” Hanak said. “That means you’ve still got a big gap to fill. So there’s a growing recognition that this is going to mean some land coming out of production in the valley.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She estimates 10–12 percent of farmland in the San Joaquin Valley will have to be fallowed as a conservation measure to reduce demand on groundwater. That doesn’t sound like a lot. 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The nonprofit recently published a report that found 323,000 acres of farmland in the San Joaquin Valley could be lost to development by 2050 as suburban sprawl creeps out from cities like Lodi, Manteca, Hanford and Bakersfield. About half of that acreage is considered high-value farmland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The message is that cities, counties, farmers and groundwater sustainability agencies (GSAs) need to work together in new ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Land quality across the San Joaquin Valley should be a consideration used by [GSAs] when they are determining groundwater allocations within their districts,” said Heckert. “Ensuring the best agricultural land continues to receive adequate groundwater supply will help maintain California’s agricultural production and natural heritage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanak said governments could offer a variety of incentives to derive the most benefit from farmland retirement. 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Those goals are in conflict, especially in a region like the San Joaquin Valley, where many local communities rely on groundwater, and SGMA will make that groundwater harder to come by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not having a big enough dialogue about how the new water rules fit in with this whole idea of building more houses,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One strategy, she said, would be to require all new homes to include on-site gray-water recycling. Another is a water trading scheme for residential development. Kern County already does this in the Tehachapi area, a mountainous community east of Bakersfield that relies on sparse groundwater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A developer who wants to build a 50-home subdivision in Tehachapi can buy the water he needs from other unbuilt lots in the region, if he can find willing sellers. The process concentrates both the water use and the housing development. Something similar could work throughout the San Joaquin Valley to control where development occurs and where groundwater gets pumped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need more tools in this new water world we’re in,” Oviatt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SGMA has been criticized for its distant deadlines, because hundreds of new wells are being drilled in the meantime, putting additional strain on groundwater. But it may turn out to be a good thing that this law creeps along like a wagon train. It will take years to manage all the land use changes that will accompany changes in groundwater use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think anybody is under the illusion that it’s all going to work perfectly,” said Hanak. “The good thing about this is, it’s not an overnight thing that’s going to happen. It’s something that people will have some time to plan for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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