Yamamoto Farms July 16, 2018 Board of Directors Fox Canyon Groundwater Management Agency 800 South Victoria Avenue Ventura, Ca. 93009-1610 c/o Ms. Keely Rayas via email: [email protected] RECEIVED JUL 16 201 8 POX C ANYON GROUNDWAT ER MANA GEMENT AGENCY Re: Baseline Period Determination and OPV Allocation Workshop To the Board of Directors, The purpose of this letter is to express our objection to the June 20, 2018 Baseline Period Allocation System (the "BPAS") proposed for Oxnard and Pleasant Valley Basins (the "OPV Basin"). lo_particular, the BP,£1.S_ pt_oposal to create new allo_cations on existing wells will r_esult in our ranch essentially receiving zero water allocation. This re-allocation effectively removes all water rights from us in a manner that is both unfair and illegal. The Fox Canyon Groundwater Management Agency (the "FCGMA") should instead be focusing its efforts in the implementation of a land-based allocation system that fairly and legally allocates water to all agricultural water users in the OPV Basin. My family owns three parcels comprising 168 acres of farm land (located on Wood Road in the Oxnard plains) and has been farming in the area for more than half a century. We believe we have been good stewards of local farming resources and strong members of a very important community and industry. We have tried to be consistent in our approach and are proud ofthe contributions we have made to the local community. We currently lease our ranch to a local farming company. Irrigation water for our ranch is supplied mostly by the Pleasant Valley County Water District ("PVCWD"). Our tenant farms a rotat ion of vegetable crops continuously throughout the year - much like the farming that occurs on neighboring propert i es. However, the BPAS will treat our ranch very differently than our neighbors. While they will get a full allocation of water rights for all the water applied to their ranch (because if came from a well), the BPAS will allocate no water to our ranch because our ranch applied PVCWD water. In other words, the BPAS will result in two ranches with similar applied water rates ending up with completely opposite allocations - one would have a 100% allocation for applied water and the other would have a 0% allocation for applied water. Not only does thi s approach make no sense, it is patently unfair. 5884 Mulberry Ridge/ Camarillo/ California/ 93012 310.779.4678 Item 2-1 - Page 1 of 2