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

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, f... Read More...

GSA SUMMIT: Reflections on the 2020 GSP process

Maven

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 Groundwater Management Act; the remaining basins subj... Read More...

STATE WATER BOARD: Update on SGMA implementation

Maven

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

Maven

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 cha... Read More...

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

Maven

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 Pajaro Valley has no connection to the State Water Pr... Read More...

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

Maven

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

Maven

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 c... 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 been ignored in water-management considerations an... Read More...

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

Maven

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

Maven

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... Read More...

GUEST COMMENTARY: Significant progress being made in implementing the state’s groundwater law

Maven

March 18, 2020

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Guest commentary by Geoff Vanden Heuvel, Director of Regulatory and Economic Affairs, Milk Producers Council: I remember being surprised when attending a local Groundwater Sustainability Agency meeting and I first saw a schematic that visually depicted the va... Read More...

SGMA IMPLEMENTATION: Borrego Valley’s strategy for a negotiated resolution under SGMA

Maven

March 11, 2020

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Presentation at the California Irrigation Institute conference highlights this critically-overdrafted basin's creative approach to meeting the requirements of SGMA The Borrego Valley is a small valley in the n... Read More...

NEW DATA TOOLS: The GAMA program has updated and expanded its online data tools!

Maven

March 3, 2020

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From the State Water Resources Control Board: The GAMA program has updated and expanded its online data tools to enhance access to groundwater information. Since 2010, the GAMA Groundwater Information System ... Read More...

CA IRRIGATION INSTITUTE: Implementation strategies for SGMA

Maven

February 26, 2020

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Hydrologist Derik Williams discusses the different paths GSAs are taking to get to sustainability, plus the three things every GSP should include Derik Williams is a professional geologist and certified hydrologist with more than 30 years of experience managi... Read More...

The Delta Landscapes project: Creating a spatial framework to inform restoration planning

BROWN BAG SEMINAR: Understanding the human dimensions of social agro-ecological systems: What motivates farmer decision-making and policy change?

BROWN BAG SEMINAR: Building Socioecological Resilience by Confronting Environmental Injustice: A Participatory Approach

BROWN BAG SEMINAR: Engaging Diverse Communities around Water, Climate, and the Environment

DELTA SCIENCE NEEDS, PART 2: What do managers need to know to effectively make decisions in the future Delta?

BROWN BAG SEMINAR: Franks Tract Futures: Using map based public surveys to inform a participatory multi-benefit design project

BROWN BAG SEMINAR: From Measurements, Models and Maps to Management

Groundwater Problems and Prospects, part 1: An overview of groundwater

TIM QUINN: Forty Years of California Water Policy: What Worked, What Didn’t, and Lessons for the Future

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

FEATURE: The state of California’s environment

GROUNDWATER 101: The basics

CA WATER COMMISSION: Preparing California’s Water System for Climate Extremes

FEATURE: Water rights 101

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

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

GUEST COMMENTARY: Significant progress being made in implementing the state’s groundwater law

SGMA IMPLEMENTATION: Borrego Valley’s strategy for a negotiated resolution under SGMA

NEW DATA TOOLS: The GAMA program has updated and expanded its online data tools!

CA IRRIGATION INSTITUTE: Implementation strategies for SGMA

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