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The Advocate
The report serves as both a warning to the groundwater panel sometimes criticized as too beholden to the users it regulates and also an encouragement of its latest efforts to develop a long-term plan with help from the Water Institute of the Gulf.
"In the agency’s view, this means funding to completion of the current management plan effort with the Water Institute of the Gulf," the report says.
Environmental groups, some commissioners and others have highlighted for several years the gradual movement of salt water across the Baton Rouge fault into the lower fringes of the sweeping Southern Hills Aquifer, where, in Baton Rouge, key drinking water wells and industrial supply wells are located.
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