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Groundwater Management Area 8 (GMA 8) is a management area created to assist Groundwater Conservation Districts in future planning for groundwater. 

Groundwater Management Areas were created "in order to provide for the conservation, preservation, protection, recharging, and prevention of waste of the groundwater, and of groundwater reservoirs or their subdivisions, and to control subsidence caused by withdrawal of water from those groundwater reservoirs or their subdivisions, consistent with the objectives of Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, groundwater management areas may be created..." (Texas Water Code §35.001) Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 933, §2, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.

Map of GMA 8 Administrative and Major Aquifer Boundaries

Groundwater Management Area 8

Important News

• GMA 8 Meeting, Thursday, October 31, 2024, 10:00 a.m.., Prairielands Groundwater Conservation District Office located at 208 Kimberly Dr., Cleburne, Texas 76301.
• ​GMA 8 RFQ Professional Services Related to Development and Adoption of DFC Deadline Thursday, July 25, 2024 at 3 p.m.

2016  DFC Planning Cycle​ Documents

• GMA-8 DFC Submission Package to TWDB
• Appendices to Submission Package

2021  DFC Planning Cycle​ Documents

• GMA 8 Explanatory Report, 2021
  
• Appendices to Submission Package
  

Groundwater Management Area 8
PO Box 508
Gainesville, TX 76240
(855) 426-4433
gma8@gma8.org