‘Secondary aquifer fund’ created for CAMP

Sen. Steve Bair, R-Blackfoot, had a bill-introduction on the JFAC agenda this morning, to create a “secondary aquifer planning and management fund.” Bair said as part of the CAMP, or Comprehensive Aquifer Management Plan, process, the Idaho attorney general recommended creating a separate fund to take deposits of money collected from non-state entities, including water districts, surface water users, ground water users, municipalities, pumpers and more. “They need someplace to put those funds so that they can be used by the water board for management purposes to try and keep our aquifer healthy,” Bair said. The bill creates the fund; the joint committee approved it unanimously.