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LandFlex Program’s Guidelines

California Department of Water Resources (DWR) | December 8th, 2022


LandFlex is a program that will provide $25 million in block grants to local government agencies to grant to farmers who limit agricultural water use. Local government agencies will work directly with farmers in critically overdrafted (COD) basins to identify lands that would reduce pumping impacts to nearby drinking water wells. Through financial incentives to farmers LandFlex will provide multiple community benefits such as drinking water well relief, groundwater overdraft prevention, and climate resilience. 

Keywords

agriculture water use and efficiency, Groundwater Exchange, groundwater pumping impacts, Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA)