Some farmers in southern Tulare County – where excessive groundwater pumping has already caused hundreds of millions in damage to the Friant-Kern Canal – are back to pumping like crazy while there’s a gap in oversight. It hasn’t gone unnoticed. “They have got to be serious about stopping the pumping,” said Jeevan Muhar, general manager of Arvin-Edison Water Storage District Groundwater Sustainability Agency. “It needs to stop for the canal to f…
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