I may have mentioned before...
Our really scary drop in groundwater level over the last 25-30 years
has been blamed on the (ever-decreasing number of) alfalfa farmers,
and the (few remaining) dairies, but is, in fact, the result of
uncontrolled growth in Victorville and Apple Valley, etc.
Major developers - before the recent 'bust' - were / are paying
dearly for the right to build all kinds of nasty sprawl, and the
cities and county agencies just ate it up.
Meantime, our community (Newberry Springs) - give-or-take 120 square
miles - has had folks potentially interested in buying / building
turned off by the fact that several years ago the water level was at
way less than 100' and now is down to 500' or more, and so - even
though the land is cheap enough, it is way offset by the price of
digging a new well.
Local water agency (based in Lawhontan - hundreds of miles away from
our desert - somewhere up near Lake Tahoe) made a big whoopteedoo
back in 2005 of installing a 'pipeline' which ended in a 5 acre
detention pond not 2 miles from my front door.
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