Our guests were Susan Schrader and Emily McCabe. Emily is a Durham native. Emily grew up in Durham, studied Society and Environment at UC Berkeley, interned for environmental nonprofits in college, and is now a California Climate Action Corps fellow at the Butte Environmental Council. 

Susan is a local domestic well user and environmentalist who is monitoring activities in our region due to the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (including the newly formed Tuscan Water District). She has become engaged because she realizes that everything in our community relies on groundwater. 

They spoke with us about the nature of aquifers and the size of the Tuscan aquifer which serves our area. They they explained the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, which California has created to do what its title implies: protecting groundwater from overuse. Next, they explained the specifics of the Vina Sub-Basin GSE and advocated for greater input and power from small farmers and domestic well user. Click on the link below to listen to this excellent interview.

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