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LSGCD Recommendations Would Increase Groundwater Pumping, Ignore Subsidence - Reduce Flooding
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Source: Reduce Flooding Blog - Bob Rehak
Date: 08/12/2026 9:45pm
Article Summary:
**LSGCD Ratifies Groundwater Plan That Could Increase Pumping While Omitting Subsidence Safeguards, Raising Flooding Concerns**
The Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District voted to retain its proposed “desired future conditions,” allowing groundwater production of roughly 200,000 acre-feet annually while declining to adopt a subsidence metric. The article’s author argues the policy could permit significant localized drawdown and worsen flood risks in the interconnected San Jacinto watershed, and calls for detailed modeling of groundwater decline and land subsidence.
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Date: 08/12/2026 9:45pm
Article Summary:
**LSGCD Ratifies Groundwater Plan That Could Increase Pumping While Omitting Subsidence Safeguards, Raising Flooding Concerns**
The Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District voted to retain its proposed “desired future conditions,” allowing groundwater production of roughly 200,000 acre-feet annually while declining to adopt a subsidence metric. The article’s author argues the policy could permit significant localized drawdown and worsen flood risks in the interconnected San Jacinto watershed, and calls for detailed modeling of groundwater decline and land subsidence.
Read article here »