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| The west side of the San Joaquin Valley has very little water. I saw the former row crop manager for Blackwell Land Company this week. He is now working for a large carrot company. Blackwell abandoned 1400 acres of grapes (they had thousands of acres years ago) and are down to a few hundred ares of carrots. Water costs are $400 acre/ft now Here is a link to the water district. http://www.bmwd.org/history.html A paragraph from it says:
May 1997 - Sale of Permanent Water Entitlement from delinquent lands. Following twelve years of attempting to market a portion of the District’s SWP contract Water, a sale to Mojave Water Agency of 25,000 a.f. for $25 million was completed. In 1999 another sale was completed to Alameda County – Zone 7 on 7,000 acre-feet for $7 million. These two sales represented sales off of delinquent lands. The on going water costs associated with these delinquencies were being paid for by the District landowners making it virtually uneconomic to farm in Berrenda Mesa because of high water costs. | |
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California water alloactions - no good news
