tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6309635188081717685.post1676295390930395213..comments2024-02-10T03:25:27.955-06:00Comments on Wisdom in Water, please...: God Forbid California Should Look Elsewhere for DirectionKatherine Wilkins-Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01513487171907332182noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6309635188081717685.post-61134082513382310772009-11-08T21:27:46.754-06:002009-11-08T21:27:46.754-06:00John:
The answer is "yes" and "no&...John:<br /><br />The answer is "yes" and "no". All our folks had water rights which they were fairly comfortable with - meaning their rights should be sufficient to irrigate what they were watering. However, not being metered, they really didn't know exactly how much they were pumping. Many felt that the meters might show they were over-pumping a bit and they'd have to cut back to their water right limits - a result they were not thrilled with. No one was really concerned about losing their right to irrigate or having to stop irrigation.<br /><br />As it turned out, the meters showed the vast majority were pumping considerably less than their water rights, and less than they had been estimating.<br /><br />As I said in the original post, once this initial trepidation was past, the majority of users got down to the business of using the meters as irrigation management tools and stopped looking at them as regulatory hammers.<br /><br />It's not an easy program to run, but it is absolutely critical to any future decisions regarding allocations, conservation, new development, modeling, or whatever is needed.<br /><br />Thanks for the question. Keep up the interesting posts from Albuquerque!Katherine Wilkins-Wellshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01513487171907332182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6309635188081717685.post-63712430157136153122009-11-08T19:48:46.435-06:002009-11-08T19:48:46.435-06:00Wayne -
Were their people who objected because (a...Wayne -<br /><br />Were their people who objected because (as is the case in California) they feared that accurate measurement would lead to curtailment of pumping? If so, how did their fears play out?John Fleckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01945772782727225745noreply@blogger.com