California Water Code

§ 60318

WAT § 60318 Effective Jan 1, 2001Div. 18 · Part 6 · Ch. 3

Statute text

(a)If the board determines, by resolution, that there is a problem of groundwater contamination that a proposed program will remedy or ameliorate, an operator may make extractions of groundwater to remedy or ameliorate that problem exempt from any replenishment assessment if the water is not applied to beneficial surface use, its extractions are made in compliance with all the terms and conditions of the board resolution, and the board has determined in the resolution either of the following:

(1)The groundwater to be extracted is unusable and cannot be economically blended for use with other water.

(2)The proposed program involves extraction of usable water in the same quantity as will be returned to the underground without degradation of quality.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2000, Ch. 727, Sec. 7. Effective January 1, 2001.