Since no golf course can afford these rates, a San Diego developer, Bill Berkley, has offered to buy a large palm tree farm, fallow it, and give the farm's well to the BWD after paying more than $250,000 to connect it to the BWD's pipelines.  Fallowing the palm tree farm would reduce the aquifer overdraft by over 500 acre feet per year (AFY).  Berkley will also reduce the golf course's historic water usage by an additional 500 AFY by making it a target course (less turf), closing it in the hot summer months (reducing water use), eliminating over seeding, using drought resistant grasses and a state of the art irrigation system. The combined 1,000+ AFY water savings would provide more than enough water to supply all the homes in Borrego.