The state Water Resources Control Board is hosting two online-only workshops on how to use its groundwater extraction annual reporting system, or GEARS, ahead of the May 1 deadline for Tule and Tulare Lake subbasin pumpers to report extractions and pay fees.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The first workshop is for groundwater sustainability agency managers on March 24 from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Registration is required and can be found here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n The second workshop is for growers on March 26 from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Registration is required and can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Both workshops will demonstrate how to register for GEARS and offer time for questions from participants near the end of each event.<\/p>\n GEARS is already live and ready<\/a> for pumpers to begin reporting groundwater extractions. A user guide<\/a> is available online, which breaks down how to use the website.<\/p>\n These reporting requirements are the result of both subbasins being placed on probation in 2024 for lacking adequate groundwater plans.<\/p>\n Subsidence, or land sinking, is a major issue for both areas.\u00a0<\/p>\n In the Tulare Lake subbasin, such a large swath of land has sunk due to excessive pumping, it can be seen from space and has been nicknamed \u201cthe Corcoran bowl.\u201d<\/p>\n In the Tule subbasin, over pumping sank the ground beneath a 33-mile section of the Friant-Kern Canal, costing $300 million, so far, with another $200 million in federal funding recently secured for further repairs.<\/p>\n Under probation, farmers are required to meter and register wells at\u00a0 $300 each and pay $20 per acre foot of groundwater pumped.\u00a0<\/p>\n Failure to submit extractions by the May 1 deadline, will result in a 25% surcharge of the total monthly amount due on top of the fees.<\/p>\n If additional help is needed to navigate the GEARS program, pumpers can contact the Water Board at 961-322-6508, email at SGMA@waterboards.ca.gov<\/a> or visit its website at gears.waterboards.ca.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The state Water Resources Control Board is hosting two online-only workshops on how to use its groundwater extraction…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[17368,121,123,122,19004,8412,8609],"class_list":["post-226111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-probation","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-sgma","tag-tulare-county","tag-workshops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}