Greater Kaweah wants to buy the water leaking out of district canals and use it to retire the Tier 1/Tier 2 overdraft allocation — this week we hear how that concept is landing at Lakeside Irrigation District and Kaweah Delta WCD. A newly protected toad has stalled a FEMA-funded flood barrier as forecasters warn of a possible Super El Niño, McMullin Area GSA awards its $22.8 million flood-capture expansion, and four heavyweight commenters weigh in on the Delta-Mendota GSP with just a third of a foot of subsidence allowance left. In Trends: groundwater markets take their first exchange requests, collections and penalties tighten across the valley, roughly $740 million in Prop 4 grant programs comes into view, and DWR clears several basins while a new court ruling reshapes GSP litigation.

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