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Residents debate out-of-county sales of well water

One claims neighbor’s ‘aggressive watering’ reduced his water flow


Karl Knight of Bootjack told the county's planning commission that his own well slowed down when a neighbor began a campaign of “aggressive watering” several years ago. “What one person does with their well does affect others,” he said. “I've experienced it.”Like other drought-ravaged counties, Mariposa needs to regulate sales of underground water to conserve the precious resource, several residents said at last Friday’s planning commission meeting.
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