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Did You Know? POSGCD is a member of 2 Groundwater Management Areas (GMA). GMAs work together to create DFC’s and work with the regional water planning groups.

GMA – Groundwater Management Areas were created “in order to provide for the conservation, preservation, protection, recharging, and prevention of waste of the groundwater, and of groundwater reservoirs or their subdivisions, and to control subsidence caused by withdrawal of water from those groundwater reservoirs or their subdivisions, consistent with the objectives of Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, groundwater management areas may be created…”

 

GMA 8 – POSGCD is a member of GMA 8. For GMA8imagemore information on GMA 8, check out the GMA 8 page on our website, or visit the Texas Water Development Board’s page here.

 

GMA 12 – POSGCD is also a member of GMA GMA12image12. For more information on GMA 12, checkout the GMA 12 page on our website, or visit the Texas Water Development Board’s page here.

 

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