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B-1 Receive Update on Sustainable Groundwater Management Act and Eastern San Joaquin Groundwater Authority (PW)
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AGENDA – Shirtsleeve Session
Date: June 21, 2022
Time: 7:00 a.m.
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AGENDA ITEM B-01
COUNCIL COMMUNICATION
APPR
OVED: _________________________________________
Stephen Schwabauer, City Manager
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EETING DATE: June 21, 2022 (Shirtsleeve)
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COMMENDED ACTION: Receive update on Sustainable Groundwater Management Act and Eastern San Joaquin Groundwater Authority.
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ACKGROUND INFORMATION: On August 29, 2014, the California Legislature passed comprehensive groundwater legislation enacting the “Sustainable Groundwater Management Act” (SGMA). Governor Brown signed the legislation on September 16, 2014 and it became effective on January 1, 2015.
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GMA requires the formation of groundwater sustainability agencies (GSA’s) and the development and implementation of one or more groundwater sustainability plans (GSP’s) for each groundwater basin categorized by the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) as high- or medium-priority.
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he Eastern San Joaquin Groundwater Authority (Authority) is a collaboration of agencies (including Lodi) within the county working to prepare a GSP in accordance with the SGMA legislation. The Authority submitted a GSP in January of 2020 to DWR, and has since received feedback which requires an update to the GSP.
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taff will provide an update on the DWR comments that were received on the submitted GSP, which will be addressed in the amended GSP. The amended GSP will be brought to Council for adoption in July of 2022.
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ISCAL IMPACT: Not applicable.
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Charles E. Swimley, Jr.
Public Works Director
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Sustainable Groundwater Management Act &
Eastern San Joaquin Groundwater Authority
Update
June 21, 2022
The City of Lodi
Public Works
Outline
• Background
• Past Council Actions
• Goal of SGMA
• GSP Chapters
• Updated Timeline
• Deficiencies and Responses
• Next Steps
Background
• The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA)
became effective on January 1, 2015.
• SGMA requires the establishment of Groundwater
Sustainability Agencies (GSA) and the development and
implementation of one or more Groundwater
Sustainability Plans (GSP).
• Basins must demonstrate groundwater sustainability by 2040.
• Failure of local agencies to comply with SGMA would
result in State intervention and adjudication.
Past Council Actions
• September 22, 2015 SGMA Introduction (SS)
• October 20, 2015 Follow Up Information (SS)
• August 17, 2016 MOU between City and
NSJWCD – GSA Boundary
Modification (RM)
• October 11, 2016 Information on Draft JPA (SS)
• April 5, 2017 Resolution Executing JPA (RM)
• February 7, 2018 Resolution Approving Cost
Allocations (RM)
• April 23, 2019 SGMA Update / GSP Intro (SS)
• July 16, 2019 SGMA Update / GSP Results(SS)
• November 20, 2019 Groundwater Sustainability Plan
(GSP) Adoption
Goal of SGMA
The goal of SGMA is to create a sustainable groundwater basin by identifying and addressing a number of sustainability indicators:
– Chronic lowering of groundwater levels indicating a significant and unreasonable depletion of supply
– Significant and unreasonable reduction in groundwater storage – Significant and unreasonable land subsidence
– Depletions of interconnected surface water that have significant and unreasonable adverse impacts on beneficial uses of the surface water
– Significant and unreasonable degraded water quality
– Significant and unreasonable seawater intrusion
GSP Chapters
• Administrative Information
– General information, description of plan area, communications • Basin Setting
– Hydrologic Conceptual Model, groundwater conditions, water budget, management areas
• Sustainable Management Criteria
– Sustainability goal, undesirable results, minimum thresholds, measurable objectives
• Monitoring Networks
– Monitoring network, assessment and improvement of network, reporting and monitoring data
GSP Chapters
• Projects and management actions
– List of projects to achieve sustainability goal
• Department Evaluation and Assessment
– Department review, evaluation criteria
• Annual Reports and Periodic Evaluations by Agency
– 5-year evaluations by agency or when amended
• Interagency Agreements
– Interagency agreements, interbasin agreements, coordination agreements
Updated Timeline
• The GSP was submitted in January 2020 to the
Department of Water Resources (DWR).
• On November 18th, 2021, the Eastern San Joaquin
Subbasin received a letter from DWR stating that there
were deficiencies in the submitted plan which required
attention.
• The response to these DWR comments has been
prepared via committee and Woodard-Curran, the
consultant retained by the Subbasin for technical
assistance throughout the GSP development process.
Potential Deficiencies and Responses
• Potential Deficiency 1: “The GSP lacks sufficient justification for identifying that undesirable results for chronic lowering of groundwater levels, subsidence, and depletion of
interconnected surface waters can only occur in consecutive non-dry water year types. The GSP also lacks sufficient explanation for its chronic lowering of groundwater levels minimum thresholds and undesirable results.”
• Response to comment: The GSP will be amended to remove the water year type from the minimum threshold. Additionally, technical hydrogeologic data has been provided to support the minimum threshold definitions used in the GSP.
Potential Deficiencies and Responses
• Potential Deficiency 2: “The GSP does not provide enough information to support the use of the chronic lowering of groundwater level sustainable management criteria and
representative monitoring network as a proxy for land
subsidence.”
• Response to comment: The GSP will be amended to include subsidence data from publicly available monitoring sources, and this data will be updated and reviewed in the preparation of each annual report. A technical memorandum was prepared to more thoroughly document the correlation between chronic lowering of groundwater levels and subsidence. Additionally, this memorandum outlined the types of critical infrastructure which would be most impacted by subsidence, as requested.
Next Steps
In July, we will bring an amended groundwater sustainability plan to council for adoption. The amended plan will reflect the changes made based on the feedback from the Department of Water Resources.
Questions?