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LSGCD Hearing Public Comments 2 PM Monday on Desired Future Conditions, Subsidence

The time for sitting on the sidelines of the subsidence debate is over. Groundwater Management Area 14 (GMA-14) has finalized its proposed desired future conditions (DFCs). Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District (LSGCD) is fighting them. It wants to exclude any mention of subsidence. So if you disagree with that point of view, speak up now […]

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GMA-14 Adopts Desired Future Conditions, But Not Without a Fight from LSGCD

On Friday, April 9, 2021, Texas Groundwater Management Area-14 (GMA-14), which comprises 21 counties in Southeast Texas, finally adopted metrics for Desired Future Conditions (DFCs). These define how much groundwater each conservation district can pump from aquifers and how much subsidence they will tolerate until 2080. However, Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District (LSGCD) continued to […]

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