Kings County Farm Bureau says a judge's decision is a big win in case against State Water Board

KINGS COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- A measurement successful the close absorption for the Kings County Farm Bureau.

On Thursday, a Kings County Superior Court justice ruled successful their favour to proceed their efforts to writer the California State Water Resources Control Board... aft the committee placed the Tulare Subbasin connected probation backmost successful April...

"That's a large triumph not conscionable for Kings County Farm Bureau, but truly each of California agriculture," says Dusty Ference, Executive Director of the Kings County Farm Bureau.

Dusty continues, "We anticipation that they recognize that our lawsuit is beardown and we request to bash this differently. We request to grip probation and execute sustainability differently."

The Farm Bureau filed a suit against the authorities h2o committee successful May of this year.

RELATED: Kings County Farm Bureau suing State Water Board implicit Tulare Lake subbasin probation

After the committee ordered restrictions connected growers successful the Tulare Lake Subbasin.

That included charging farmers for pumping groundwater astatine a complaint of $20 per acre-foot... and a $300 interest and registration request for each good connected their property.

"And if that's not enough, we were astatine hazard successful April 2025 of the State Resource Control Board implementing what they telephone an interim groundwater sustainable works that means the authorities controls the subasin and however overmuch h2o they could pump... oregon truly however small h2o they tin pump," explains Ference.

He says fees and regulations could greatly interaction agriculture and the section economy.

"We don't person different manufacture that would marque up jobs if they were lost," Dusty says. "We're astatine hazard of losing the agriculture successful Kings County, we're astatine hazard of losing everything."

Action News reached retired to the State Water Board, which besides held a probation proceeding with the Tule Subbasin connected Tuesday for groundwater absorption practices.

The authorities committee has said it's acrophobic astir the crushed sinking owed to excessively overmuch h2o being pumped retired from the Tulare subbasin.

The radical argues the section program was not doing enough, truthful it had to measurement in.

In a statement, they accidental they disagree with the ruling:

"This ruling solely impacts Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) implementation successful the Tulare Lake Subbasin." - State Water Board.

Kings County Farm Bureau and the State Water Board volition instrumentality to tribunal successful January 2025.

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