Central Valley Dairy Representative Monitoring Program Annual Meeting 1:30 p.m. March 11 via Zoom

The Central Valley Dairy Representative Monitoring Program (CVDRMP) will hold its annual member meeting on Monday, March 11 at 1:30 p.m. via Zoom teleconference. CVDRMP Directors and staff will provide updates about the organization’s activities, member fees for 2024, and the Central Valley Water Board’s Nitrate and Salt Control Programs. Login information is included on page two of CVDRMP’s newsletter, which was mailed to all CVDRMP dairy and cattle operator members. You can read the entire newsletter here and an excerpt below.
 
More Dairies and Feedlots will Join Nitrate Management Zones in 2024
If you’re one of the hundreds of dairy and feedlot operators who received certified letters from the Central Valley Water Board in late December 2023, you are now required to comply with the Nitrate Control Program by joining a Nitrate Management Zone.
 
For hundreds of CVDRMP members, Nitrate Management Zones aren’t new – beginning in 2021, CVDRMP enrolled many of its members in “Priority 1” Management Zone areas such as the Turlock, Modesto, Chowchilla, Kings, Kaweah, and Tule groundwater basins. Since 2021, dairies in those basins have paid extra dues to cover their share of Management Zone costs.
 
This process now begins in “Priority 2” areas (see map), which include parts of Kern County and the Tulare Lake, Madera, East San Joaquin, Yolo, Madera, Merced, and Delta-Mendota subbasins.