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5 • WATER_PERMITSMiddle Pecos Groundwater Conservation District (Pecos County)

schedule Board meeting within 10 days to

Presented in: Middle Pecos GCD Board Meeting - 2024-10-15 on 2024-10-15
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5. schedule Board meeting within 10 days to discuss exercise of District’s emergency powers, including curtailment of production by permittees up to 50% rationale is that 7-foot threshold = 50% of acceptable DFC drawdown over 25 years, and is an objective benchmark “to ensure that the District is on track to comply with the DFC” premature to establish a bright-line threshold (A) prior to completion of ongoing research project and (B) without evidence of a need based on historical and real-time data from MPGCD’s extensive well-monitoring program… …as deliberated by Board in February, March and April 2024 (see minutes, especially March 18th Board meeting) policy decision based on best-available science and DFC factors; current best-available science reflects that District is on track to comply with DFC 7 of 7 PREPARED BY LLOYD GOSSELINK, P.C.