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Acting as the Monterey County Groundwater Sustainability Agency:
Adopt a resolution approving the final draft Groundwater Sustainability Plan for the 180/400-Foot Aquifer Subbasin, for management of the MCGSA jurisdictional area known as CEMEX.
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Board of Supervisors, acting as the Monterey County Groundwater Sustainability Agency, adopt the Groundwater Sustainability Plan (GSP) for the 180/400 ft. Aquifer Subbasin, for management of the MCGSA jurisdictional area known as CEMEX.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) requires Groundwater Sustainability Plans (GSPs) be adopted for medium or high priority basins and subbasins in California (including the CEMEX portion of the 180/400ft Aquifer Subbasin). The plans must detail how basins will become sustainable over a 20-year timeframe and must be submitted to the California Department of Water Resources for approval. The deadline for submittal of plans to the State was January 31, 2020.
In March 2018, the Salinas Valley Basin Groundwater Sustainability Agency (SVBGSA), a Joint Powers Authority of which the County is a member, submitted initial notification to the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) to prepare a GSP for the Salinas Valley Ground Water Basin, which included the 180/400-foot Aquifer Subbasin. Over the subsequent years, SVBGSA undertook the process to prepare the GSP as required by SGMA.
On December 11, 2019, the Monterey County Board of Supervisors formed the Monterey County Groundwater Sustainability Agency (Monterey County GSA) to avoid State intervention as a result of overlapping GSA notices submitted by the SVBGSA and the City of Marina GSA. The Department of Water Resources (DWR) recognized the County as the exclusive GSA on December 18, 2019. In its resolution forming the Monterey County GSA, the County expressed its intent to adopt the GSP prepared by SVBGSA for the 180/400 Subbasin for m...
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