California Voice: Protect state's residents, wildlife from groundwater contamination – Marin Independent Journal
For over a decade, the state Water Resources Control Board has failed to take meaningful action.
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For over a decade, the state Water Resources Control Board has failed to take meaningful action.
For over a decade, the state Water Resources Control Board has failed to take meaningful action
For over a decade, the state Water Resources Control Board has failed to take meaningful action
The issue is extremely complicated but boils down to limits the state has placed on nitrate levels in drinking water. Environmental and social justice groups, as alleged in the Oct. 27 lawsuit, say growers apply far too much nitrogen-based fertilizers than is needed to grow healthy crops. It is the problem of some growers believing if some is good then more is better.
In 2021, the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board issued an order, after years of public hearings and review, calling for a limitation on runoff from agricultural fields.