[env-trinity] Almond acreage up 6% in 2015, 180, 000 AF/year for 25 years

[Paul Catanese]

Funny from the standpoint that pot is grown all over trinity county sucking up all our water and people are concerned about almonds while sipping on their Napa valley wine and smoking pot from trinity and Humbolt county. Sounds two faced to me

Paul J. Catanese, Partner

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On May 3, 2016, at 12:48 PM, Tom Stokely <tstokely at att.net<mailto:tstokely at att.net>> wrote:

https://onthepublicrecord.org/2016/04/27/various-almond-acreage-leasing-a-water-right-ap-exam/
Various: almond acreage, leasing a water right, AP exam,<https://onthepublicrecord.org/2016/04/27/various-almond-acreage-leasing-a-water-right-ap-exam/>
The 2015 California Almond Acreage Report<https://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/California/Publications/Fruits_and_Nuts/201605almac.pdf> is out.  Last year, while you were carrying your warm-up water out to the rose bushes, growers planted another sixty thousand acres of almonds.
California's 2015 almond acreage is estimated at 1,110,000 acres, up 6 percent from the 2014 revised acreage of 1,050,000.
This acreage, planted in Drought Year Four, commits about 180,000 AF/year to those trees, a constant burden on groundwater basins and our political system for every one of the next twenty-five years.  Had the Brown administration banned new permanent crops in basins with declining groundwater levels, that demand might be in annual crops, flexible in times of high climate variability.


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