McMullin Receives $214,000 Grant Funding

The McMullin Area Groundwater Sustainability Agency (GSA) was part of a successful grant application that will bring $1.5 million into the Kings Subbasin for the development of Groundwater Sustainability Plans (GSP). The McMullin Area GSA will receive $214,000 as their share of the grant award. The money will be used to offset some of the costs for the preparation of the McMullin Area GSP.

The grant was funded by Proposition 1 and awarded on a competitive basis. The full list of grant applications submitted is available on the Sustainable Groundwater Planning Grant Program webpage.The Department of Water Resources announced its recommended awards for grants on February 6 for groundwater sustainability projects that directly benefit severely disadvantaged communities and for local agency development of Groundwater Sustainability Plans (GSPs). DWR received 78 grant applications and is recommending that all receive awards, pending public comments and review of those comments.