The Groundwater Management Board will send their new propsal to all districts to be approved.
AMARILLO -- In an effort to conserve water in the Ogallala Aquifer, the Groundwater Management Board has approved new changes.
The board approved one change, a ten percent decrease in storage over the next fifty years for Hemphill County.
In fifty years the change would allow hemphill to go from what the board originally had at a 90-percent volume in storage... to 80-percent.
the northwest corridor would stay at 40-percent.. and the central and east panhandle would be at a 50 percent.
the chairman says these new numbers account for variations in the aquifers uses.
"Well. Our goal, as a water district our challenge is to balance the needs or presence use with conservation in mind for water for future generations," said Daniel Krienke, the Chairman of GMA-1.
In a letter, Mesa water said the districts are not based on fair and equal treatment of landowners.
The board plans on sending these new adopted changes to all district boards for approval.
