Up to Appropriators to Stay Within Safe Yield
By: Libi Uremovic | Original Article at patch.com
The Beaumont Basin Watermaster has voted to approve the Safe Yield of 6,700, but has no authority to regulate.
It will up to the Appropriators to regulate and stay within their individual allotment to maintain the Safe Yield.
The Basin’s Total Water and Storage is currently at 100,714 acre/feet allocated to the following Appropriators:
Yuciapa 13,500 acre/feet
Banning 46,924 acre/feet
BCVWD 32,860 acre/feet
So Mesa 7,430 acre/feet
The City of Beaumont currently uses approximately 15,000 acre feet per year, which means the City alone will deplete the BCVWD allotment in two (2) years.
Beaumont Basin Watermaster Meeting April 1, 2015 at 10:00 AM
VII Discussion Items:
Adoption of Resolution No. 2015-01 Adopting the Final 2013 Reevaluation of the Beaumont Basin Safe Yield Report and Redetermination of the Safe Yield of the Beaumont Basin [Memorandum no. 15-07, Page 10 of 15]
“WHEREAS, the Report recommended the redetermination Safe Yield of the Beaumont Basin to be 6,700 acre-feet/yr for the next 10 years.”
Current yield from the Beaumont Basin is 18,000.
http://documents.yvwd.dst.ca.us/bbwm/meetings/2015/150401meetingpacket.pdf