Section 37950 Of Chapter 5. Groundwater Management From California Water Code >> Division 13. >> Part 8.2. >> Chapter 5.
37950
. If the board determines after a noticed public hearing, and
consideration of any relevant investigations, studies, and evidence,
that groundwater management activities are necessary in order to
improve or protect the quantity or quality of groundwater supplies
within a groundwater basin or aquifer, the board may, by ordinance,
exercise any of the following powers:
(a) Require conservation practices and measures within the
affected portion of its territory.
(b) Control groundwater extractions by regulating, limiting, or
suspending extractions from extraction facilities, the construction
of new extraction facilities, the enlarging of existing extraction
facilities, and the reactivation of abandoned extraction facilities.
(c) Commence and prosecute legal actions to enjoin unreasonable
uses or methods of use of water within the district or outside the
territory of the district to the extent those uses or methods of use
adversely affect the groundwater supply within the district.
(d) Impose spacing requirements on new extraction facility
construction to minimize well interference.
(e) Impose reasonable operating regulations on extraction
facilities to minimize well interference, including requiring pumpers
to operate on a rotation basis.
(f) Require extraction facilities to be registered with the
district within 30 days of notice being given to the operator of the
extraction facility.
(g) Require that the operator of a registered extraction facility
provide the district annually with the following information
regarding the extraction facility:
(1) The name and address of the operator of the extraction
facility.
(2) The name and address of the owner of the land upon which the
extraction facility is located.
(3) A description of the equipment associated with the extraction
facility.
(4) The location of the water extraction facility.
(h) Require extraction facilities to be equipped with waterflow
measuring devices installed and calibrated by the district or, at the
district's option, by the extraction facility operator.