Common Landowner Transfer of up to 3,000 AF of TLBWSD State Water Project Carryover Water to Kern...
Common Landowner Transfer of up to 3,000 AF of TLBWSD State Water Project Carryover Water to Kern County Water Agency
Summary
SCH Number
2017018387
Lead Agency
Tulare Lake Basin Water Storage District
Document Title
Common Landowner Transfer of up to 3,000 AF of TLBWSD State Water Project Carryover Water to Kern County Water Agency
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
1/27/2017
Document Description
The Tulare Lake Basin Water Storage District (District) will transfer up to 3,000 AF of its State Water Project Carryover Water to Kern County Water Agency for Sandridge Partners Inc. who farms in boh districts. The transfer will be completed in 2017. This proposed transfer is designed to enable Sandridge Partners Inc. to better manage its respective water supplies. No lands will be fallowed as a result of the transfer and no additional groundwater will be pumped. The lands have been actively farmed in the past.
The District has determined that there are no foreseeable environmental impacts, because both lands have been actively farmed, no new land has been developed, no additional groundwater will be pumped, and there is no physical change associated with this project.
