The County shall prohibit new water wells in the Oxnard Plain Pressure Basin if they would increase seawater intrusion in the Oxnard or Mugu aquifers.
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AG-5.4 Alternative Irrigation Techniques
The County shall encourage farmers to continue and enhance the water-saving irrigation techniques designed to reduce water consumption.
WR-1.2 Watershed Planning
The County shall consider the location of a discretionary project within a watershed to determine whether or not it could negatively impact a water source. As part of discretionary project review, the County shall also consider local watershed management plans when considering land use development.
WR-1.11 Adequate Water for Discretionary Development
The County shall require all discretionary development to demonstrate an adequate long-term supply of water.
WR-1.12 Water Quality Protection for Discretionary Development
The County shall evaluate the potential for discretionary development to cause deposition and discharge of sediment, debris, waste and other pollutants into surface runoff, drainage systems, surface water bodies, and groundwater. The County shall require discretionary development to minimize potential deposition and discharge through point source controls, storm water treatment, runoff reduction measures, best management practices, and low impact development.
WR-1.14 Discretionary Development and Conditions of Approval – Golf Course Irrigation
The County shall require that discretionary development for new golf courses shall be subject to conditions of approval that prohibit landscape irrigation with water from groundwater basins or inland surface waters identified as Municipal and Domestic Supply or Agricultural Supply in the California Regional Water Quality Control Board’s Water Quality Control Plan unless:
1. The existing and planned water supplies for a Hydrologic Area, including interrelated Hydrologic Areas and Subareas, are shown to be adequate to meet the projected demands for existing uses as well as reasonably foreseeable probable future uses within the area; and
2. It is demonstrated that the total groundwater extraction/recharge for the golf course will be equal to or less than the historic groundwater extraction/recharge for the site as defined in the County Initial Study Assessment Guidelines.
Further, where feasible, reclaimed water shall be utilized for new golf courses.