Tagged SGMA Implementation

WESTERN GROUNDWATER CONGRESS: Developing groundwater allocations: Findings and recommendations

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October 13, 2020
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TESS DUNHAM: California’s Three-Legged Stool for Improving Groundwater Quality: Porter Cologne, SGMA and the Recycled Water Policy – How Do They Work Together?

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October 6, 2020
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GSA SUMMIT: Addressing environment, disadvantaged communities, and domestic wells in the 2022 Groundwater Sustainability Plans

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August 19, 2020
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NOTICE: DWR Sustainable Groundwater Management Office announces updates for translation services

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August 19, 2020
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GSA SUMMIT: Setting Sustainable Management Criteria: It’s easy, isn’t it?

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July 22, 2020
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GSA SUMMIT: Lessons learned from the 2020 GSPs: Perspectives from the critically overdrafted basins

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July 8, 2020
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WESTERN GROUNDWATER CONGRESS: Developing groundwater allocations: Findings and recommendations

October 13, 2020

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As groundwater sustainability agencies prepare their plans to meet the requirements of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), they will likely utilize a variety of tools to achieve sustainability. ... Read More...

TESS DUNHAM: California’s Three-Legged Stool for Improving Groundwater Quality: Porter Cologne, SGMA and the Recycled Water Policy – How Do They Work Together?

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October 6, 2020

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Every year, the Groundwater Resources Association of California selects two speakers for the David Keith Todd Lectureship, which named after David Keith Todd to pay tribute to his legacy as groundwater science ... Read More...

GSA SUMMIT: Addressing environment, disadvantaged communities, and domestic wells in the 2022 Groundwater Sustainability Plans

Maven

August 19, 2020

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The groundwater sustainability plans that were submitted to the Department of Water Resources in January of 2020 were the first of the groundwater sustainability plans to be completed. Public review of these plans has revealed some important lessons to be l... Read More...

NOTICE: DWR Sustainable Groundwater Management Office announces updates for translation services

Maven

August 19, 2020

From the Department of Water Resources Sustainable Groundwater Management Office: DWR’s Written Translation Service is available to help groundwater sustainability agencies (GSAs), or other groups assisting in... Read More...

GSA SUMMIT: Setting Sustainable Management Criteria: It’s easy, isn’t it?

Maven

July 22, 2020

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The details of how a groundwater sustainability plan will be implemented are defined by the setting of sustainable management criteria (or SMC). With several undesirable results to consider, a range of tech... Read More...

GSA SUMMIT: Lessons learned from the 2020 GSPs: Perspectives from the critically overdrafted basins

Maven

July 8, 2020

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The implementation phase of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act has now begun for the basins designated as critically-overdrafted. Getting to this point has been an unparalleled journey as communities, farmers, water suppliers, and others navigated thro... Read More...

GSA SUMMIT: Reflections on the 2020 GSP process

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July 7, 2020

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At the end of January of this year, the state’s critically overdrafted groundwater basins submitted their adopted groundwater sustainability plans (or GSPs), meeting an important deadline in the Sustainable Gro... Read More...

STATE WATER BOARD: Update on SGMA implementation

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June 10, 2020

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Presentation discusses the GSP review process and highlights tools, resources, and assistance for GSAs Since the legislature passed the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act was passed in 2014, the Department... Read More...

WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT: Developing a water budget

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May 13, 2020

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With water availability being an important concern, water managers often use water budgets to quantify and manage water resources. A water budget is an accounting of the rates of the inflows, outflows, and changes in water storage in a specific area; however,... Read More...

WESTERN GROUNDWATER CONGRESS: Water resources management in the Pajaro Valley Basin

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April 23, 2020

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The Pajaro Valley is home to a billion-dollar agricultural industry, it's rich, fertile soil providing fruits and vegetables for the nation and all grown with groundwater. Located on the Central Coast, the Paj... Read More...

WESTERN GROUNDWATER CONGRESS: Utilizing excess winter stormwater flows for groundwater recharge

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April 16, 2020

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Kristin Sicke is the Assistant General Manager for Yolo County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, which manages water supplies for 200,000 acres in western Yolo County, which encompasses Woodland, D... Read More...

ERIC AVERETT: Water allocation strategies in the context of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act

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April 9, 2020

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Eric Averett is General Manager with the Rosedale-Rio Bravo Water Storage District, which is one of several water districts within Kern County. Kern County is the largest basin in the state, is designated as critically overdrafted, and is arguably one of the ... Read More...

WESTERN GROUNDWATER CONGRESS: Quantifying surface water depletion from groundwater pumping

Maven

April 2, 2020

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Understanding and conveying groundwater’s role in a changing world Surface water commonly is hydraulically connected to ground water, but the interactions are difficult to observe and measure and have largely ... Read More...

WESTERN GROUNDWATER CONGRESS: Depletion of interconnected surface waters: Not that simple

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March 26, 2020

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Sierra Ryan is a water resources planner with the County of Santa Cruz. In this presentation from the Groundwater Resources Association's 2019 Western Groundwater Congress, Ms. Ryan tells the story of how the ... Read More...

SGMA IMPLEMENTATION: David Orth gives his observations on how sustainable groundwater management is playing out in the San Joaquin Valley

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March 19, 2020

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David Orth is the principal of New Current Water and Land, which offers strategic planning, program implementation, and water resource development services. At the California Irrigation Institute's 2020 Annual Conference, he gave his observations on how imple... Read More...

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GSA SUMMIT: Addressing environment, disadvantaged communities, and domestic wells in the 2022 Groundwater Sustainability Plans

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GSA SUMMIT: Setting Sustainable Management Criteria: It’s easy, isn’t it?

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WESTERN GROUNDWATER CONGRESS: Developing groundwater allocations: Findings and recommendations

TESS DUNHAM: California’s Three-Legged Stool for Improving Groundwater Quality: Porter Cologne, SGMA and the Recycled Water Policy – How Do They Work Together?

GSA SUMMIT: Addressing environment, disadvantaged communities, and domestic wells in the 2022 Groundwater Sustainability Plans

NOTICE: DWR Sustainable Groundwater Management Office announces updates for translation services

GSA SUMMIT: Setting Sustainable Management Criteria: It’s easy, isn’t it?

GSA SUMMIT: Lessons learned from the 2020 GSPs: Perspectives from the critically overdrafted basins

WESTERN GROUNDWATER CONGRESS: Developing groundwater allocations: Findings and recommendations

TESS DUNHAM: California’s Three-Legged Stool for Improving Groundwater Quality: Porter Cologne, SGMA and the Recycled Water Policy – How Do They Work Together?

GSA SUMMIT: Addressing environment, disadvantaged communities, and domestic wells in the 2022 Groundwater Sustainability Plans

NOTICE: DWR Sustainable Groundwater Management Office announces updates for translation services

GSA SUMMIT: Setting Sustainable Management Criteria: It’s easy, isn’t it?

GSA SUMMIT: Lessons learned from the 2020 GSPs: Perspectives from the critically overdrafted basins

GSA SUMMIT: Reflections on the 2020 GSP process

STATE WATER BOARD: Update on SGMA implementation

WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT: Developing a water budget

WESTERN GROUNDWATER CONGRESS: Water resources management in the Pajaro Valley Basin

WESTERN GROUNDWATER CONGRESS: Utilizing excess winter stormwater flows for groundwater recharge

ERIC AVERETT: Water allocation strategies in the context of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act

WESTERN GROUNDWATER CONGRESS: Quantifying surface water depletion from groundwater pumping

WESTERN GROUNDWATER CONGRESS: Depletion of interconnected surface waters: Not that simple

SGMA IMPLEMENTATION: David Orth gives his observations on how sustainable groundwater management is playing out in the San Joaquin Valley