The Agriculture Appeals Office disallowed an appeal by a farmer as a well used for the extraction of water was not registered ...

CAP water, for instance, costs users of the water about $120 per acre-foot. But he said the extra water would exponentially increase the cost to cities and other users. "You'll notice it.

Its 7,000 acres of pecan groves used 25,600 acre-feet of groundwater last year. That wasn't the company's plan back in the 1980s when it was in line to tap into the then-unbuilt CAP.