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BE AWARE OF ​GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS

4/12/2022

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​GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS are scheduled to be conducted in a groundwater basin within portions of Plumas and Sierra Counties over several days starting in late April 2022.
This survey is part of California Department of Water Resources’ (DWR) project to conduct airborne electromagnetic (AEM) geophysical surveys throughout the state. The surveys are being conducted to improve the understanding of groundwater resources and support the local and state goal of improved groundwater management and implementation of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA). The surveys are funded through voter-approved Proposition 68 and there is no additional cost to locals. DWR’s video provides more information about EM surveys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMSZdzzOrUE.
AEM data are collected fringe a large hoop towed beneath a helicopter. the method is safe and surveys have already successfully been conducted in several locations throughout California. Surveys will only be conducted during daylight hours and the helicopter will not fly over business, homes, other inhabitable structures or confined animal feeding operations. The helicopter operator follows all established Federal Aviation Administration rules and regulations, and their highest priority is public safety.
For more information about the surveys, visit DWR’s AEM project website, www.water.ca.gov/programs/SGMA/AEM.
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Luis Levy
4/25/2024 10:38:01 pm

I clicked on that link and it said video was unavailable. I am in Madera county and the farmers have been pulling the water out of the ground, placing it in vast holding reservoirs for it to be used on the nut trees daily or worst yet exposing it to the elements to evaporate, while every home out where I live has had to drill their wells deeper. I'd love to know the outcome to this geological survey and what the water stratas are looking like for us living out here for the future. It's bad enough that the county collects a tax from the farmers, but to make it problem of the people, and the people have to pay out of pocket because their well dries up....it's not the property owners fault that so much water is being used on these trees.

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