{"id":21539,"date":"2016-07-28T13:48:40","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T13:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.youngwooldridge.com\/?p=7921"},"modified":"2016-07-28T13:48:40","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T13:48:40","slug":"future-california-groundwater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themediabeast.com\/resources\/future-california-groundwater\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Future With California Groundwater"},"content":{"rendered":"

Your Future With California Groundwater<\/strong><\/h2>\n

California Groundwater\u00a0| \u00a0<\/span>The days of unrestricted use of groundwater may be ending. In much of the State, farmers, ranchers, and municipalities will ultimately have to choose either to develop a Groundwater Sustainability Plan which has sufficient support to be politically acceptable and can be legally defended, or allow the courts to determine pumpers rights through an adjudication, which will be very time consuming, expensive, and create no new water supplies. Behind this movement is California\u2019s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act of 2014. The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) is a comprehensive package that charts a path for \u201csustainable management of groundwater supplies\u201d by local authorities, with the state having a \u201chammer\u201d to compel compliance if necessary.\u00a0 Success will be seen through preservation of local control at as many levels as possible.\u00a0\u00a0Farmers and Ranchers<\/a>, big and small, can and should take action now to work together in developing an agency in their areas with water districts, municipalities, and counties to sustain and protect the agricultural lifeblood of the State.<\/p>\n

The SGMA is probably the most significant change in\u00a0groundwater law<\/a>\u00a0and management in over 100 years.\u00a0 The SGMA mandates the creation of local Groundwater Sustainability Agencies (GSAs) that must evaluate conditions in their local basins and eventually adopt Groundwater Sustainability Plans (GSPs).\u00a0 The GSAs must be formed and identify themselves to the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) by June 30, 2017.\u00a0 Boundaries for GSAs will be based on DWRs Bulletin 118, unless a process is pursued to change boundaries through DWR.\u00a0 Along with the GSA\u2019s present duties, DWR has several tasks under the act such as designating basins as high, medium, low or very low priority by Jan. 31, 2015 and adopting regulations for basin boundary adjustments by Jan. 1, 2016.<\/p>\n

The act does provide substantial time \u2013 20 years \u2013 for GSAs to implement plans and achieve long-term groundwater sustainability. \u00a0It protects existing surface water and groundwater rights and does not impact current drought response measures.\u00a0 Basins that are identified as critically overdrafted must develop and file a GSP by January 31, 2020 and the Plan must provide for achieving the \u201csustainability goal\u201d within 20 years.<\/p>\n

The State Water Resources Control Board may intervene if a GSA is not formed or it fails to adopt or implement compliant plans by certain dates.\u00a0 DWR is tasked with reviewing GSPs for adequacy after they are adopted at the local level.\u00a0 If DWR determines in its review that a GSP is not adequate, the State Board may designate the basin as \u201cprobationary.\u201d If the local agency does not respond, the State Board is authorized to create an interim plan that will remain in place until a local GSA is able to reassume responsibility with a compliant plan. As with any new law, there are many unanswered questions\u00a0of exactly how it will be implemented and interpreted.\u00a0 DWR is tasked to develop regulations for evaluating GSPs.\u00a0 However, many local authorities are currently at work evaluating the SGMA and developing GSAs that will succeed at the local level and are working jointly with DWR to map out a fruitful future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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