Sacramento City Council
May 31, 2022

State of California
State Water Resources Control Board

DIVISION OF WATER RIGHTS
P.O. Box 2000, Sacramento, CA 95812-2000
Tel: (916) 341-5300 Fax: (916) 341-5400
http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights

ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION FOR PETITIONS

This form is required for all petitions.

Before the State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) can approve a petition, the State Water Board must consider the information contained in an environmental document prepared in compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). This form is not a CEQA document. If a CEQA document has not yet been prepared, a determination must be made of who is responsible for its preparation. As the petitioner, you are responsible for all costs associated with the environmental evaluation and preparation of the required CEQA documents. Please answer the following questions to the best of your ability and submit any studies that have been conducted regarding the environmental evaluation of your project. If you need more space to completely answer the questions, please number and attach additional sheets.

DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSED CHANGES OR WORK REMAINING TO BE COMPLETED For a petition for change, provide a description of the proposed changes to your project including, but not limited to, type of construction activity, structures existing or to be built, area to be graded or excavated, increase in water diversion and use (up to the amount authorized by the permit), changes in land use, and project operational changes, including changes in how the water will be used. For a petition for extension of time, provide a description of what work has been completed and what remains to be done. Include in your description any of the above elements that will occur during the requested extension period.

Insert the attachment number here, if applicable:

Coordination with Regional Water Quality Control Board

For change petitions only, you must request consultation with the Regional Date of Request Water Quality Control Board regarding the potential effects of your proposed change on water quality and other instream beneficial uses. (Cal. Code Regs., tit. 23, § 794.) In order to determine the appropriate office for consultation, see:
http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterboards_map.shtml. Provide the date you submitted your request for consultation here, then provide the following information.

Will your project, during construction or operation, (1) generate waste or wastewater containing such things as sewage, industrial chemicals, metals, Yes No or agricultural chemicals, or (2) cause erosion, turbidity or sedimentation?

Will a waste discharge permit be required for the project? Yes No

If necessary, provide additional information below:

Insert the attachment number here, if applicable:

Local Permits

For temporary transfers only, you must contact the board of supervisors for the Date of Contact county(ies) both for where you currently store or use water and where you propose to transfer the water. (Wat. Code § 1726.) Provide the date you submitted your request for consultation here.

For change petitions only, you should contact your local planning or public works department and provide the information below.

Person Contacted: Date of Contact:

Department: Phone Number:

County Zoning Designation:

Are any county permits required for your project? If yes, indicate type below. Yes No

Grading Permit Use Permit Watercourse Obstruction Permit

Change of Zoning General Plan Change Other (explain below)

If applicable, have you obtained any of the permits listed above? If yes, provide copies. Yes No

If necessary, provide additional information below:

Insert the attachment number here, if applicable:

Federal and State Permits

Check any additional agencies that may require permits or other approvals for your project:

Regional Water Quality Control Board Department of Fish and Game

Dept of Water Resources, Division of Safety of Dams California Coastal Commission

State Reclamation Board U.S. Army Corps of Engineers U.S. Forest Service

Bureau of Land Management Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Natural Resources Conservation Service

Have you obtained any of the permits listed above? If yes, provide copies. Yes No

For each agency from which a permit is required, provide the following information:

Agency Permit Type Person(s) Contacted Contact Date Phone Number

If necessary, provide additional information below:

Insert the attachment number here, if applicable:

Construction or Grading Activity

Does the project involve any construction or grading-related activity that has significantly Yes No altered or would significantly alter the bed, bank or riparian habitat of any stream or lake?

If necessary, provide additional information below:

Insert the attachment number here, if applicable:

Archeology

Has an archeological report been prepared for this project? If yes, provide a copy. Yes No

Will another public agency be preparing an archeological report? Yes No

Do you know of any archeological or historic sites in the area? If yes, explain below. Yes No

If necessary, provide additional information below:

Insert the attachment number here, if applicable:

Photographs

For all petitions other than time extensions, attach complete sets of color photographs, clearly dated and labeled, showing the vegetation that exists at the following three locations:

Along the stream channel immediately downstream from each point of diversion

Along the stream channel immediately upstream from each point of diversion

At the place where water subject to this water right will be used

Maps

For all petitions other than time extensions, attach maps labeled in accordance with the regulations showing all applicable features, both present and proposed, including but not limited to: point of diversion, point of rediversion, distribution of storage reservoirs, point of discharge of treated wastewater, place of use, and location of instream flow dedication reach. (Cal. Code Regs., tit. 23, §§ 715 et seq., 794.)

Pursuant to California Code of Regulations, title 23, section 794, petitions for change submitted without maps may not be accepted.

All Water Right Holders Must Sign This Form:

I (we) hereby certify that the statements I (we) have furnished above and in the attachments are complete to the best of my (our) ability and that the facts, statements, and information presented are true and correct to the best of my (our) knowledge. Dated at .

__________________________________________ __________________________________________ Water Right Holder or Authorized Agent Signature Water Right Holder or Authorized Agent Signature

NOTE:
 Petitions for Change may not be accepted unless you include proof that a copy of the petition was served on the Department of Fish and Game. (Cal. Code Regs., tit. 23, § 794.)  Petitions for Temporary Transfer may not be accepted unless you include proof that a copy of the petition was served on the Department of Fish and Game and the board of supervisors for the county(ies) where you currently store or use water and the county(ies) where you propose to transfer the water. (Wat. Code § 1726.)

Attachment 1
Environmental Information for Petition for Change Involving Transfer City of Sacramento – Permit 11359
Description of Proposed Changes
Petitioner City of Sacramento (“Sacramento”) proposes to transfer by groundwater substitution (“Transfer”) up to 10,366 acre-feet (“AF”) of surface water normally diverted by Sacramento under Permit 11359 and 11360 at its diversion facilities and delivered to its wholesale and retail customers. The groundwater pumped to support this transfer will be pumped by Sacramento, Sacramento Suburban Water District (“SSWD”), and Sacramento County Water Agency (“SCWA”). SSWD will forego receiving up to 3,214 AF of its contractual surface water supplies, SCWA will forego receiving 2,800 AF of its contractual surface water supplies, and Sacramento will forego 3,990 AF of its surface water supplies for the Transfer. Sacramento will leave that foregone surface water supply in the Lower American River for transfer to the following entities: Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, Kern County Water Agency, Alameda County Water District, Napa County Flood Control & Water Conservation District, Kings County Water District, Palmdale Water District, Dudley Ridge Water District, Zone 7 Water Agency, Central Coast Water Authority, and Antelope Valley-East Kern Water Agency. Collectively, SCVWD and SWCs are the “Buyers”.

Sacramento, SSWD and SCWA are part of group of Sellers that use surface supplies from the American River and groundwater from the North American Groundwater Subbasin and South American Groundwater Subbasin to meet their demands. The Sellers are collectively seeking to temporarily add points of diversion, a point of rediversion, places of use, and purposes of use to their water rights to enable transfer of approximately 16,101 acre-feet of surface water to the Buyers through groundwater substitution. The estimated availability of transferrable surface water will equal an amount negotiated between the California Department of Water Resources and the Sellers but will not exceed 16,101 acre-feet. The groundwater pumpers will extract up to 16,101 acre-feet of groundwater in the region to meet local demands otherwise served by the transferred surface supplies. This extraction is in accordance with the Groundwater Sustainability Plans (GSP) of both Sacramento Groundwater Authority and Sacramento Central Groundwater Authority. A consistency determination with both SGA’s GSP and SCGA’s GSAp has been provided as required by the Water Transfer Whitepaper.

The water supplies that Sacramento proposes to transfer to the Buyers will be within the portion of the SWP service area that comprises the Buyers’ individual service areas. To make the “Transfer Water” available to the Buyers, SSWD, SCWA, and Sacramento will pump groundwater to serve their customers’ demands that otherwise would have been served with surface water diverted and treated by Sacramento for delivery to serve those demands. In addition, SSWD and SCWA will pump groundwater to serve a portion of Sacramento’s customers’ demands that otherwise would have been met with treated surface water diverted by Sacramento. The portion of groundwater supplied by SSWD to Sacramento will be delivered through the Enterprise intertie into the jointly owned Howe Avenue Transmission Main. The portion of groundwater supplied by SCWA to Sacramento will be delivered through the Franklin Intertie at 5119 Lake Pleasant Drive in Sacramento, California.

To accomplish this groundwater substitution transfer, Sacramento is requesting that the State Water Resources Control Board (“SWRCB”) approve the following temporary changes to the City’s Water Right Permit Nos. 11359 and 11360:

1. Authorize additional points of diversion for the Transfer Water at the SWP’s Harvey O. Banks Pumping Plant via Clifton Court Forebay and the Barker Slough Pumping Plant Intake, and a point of rediversion at San Luis Reservoir;

2. Authorize an additional place of use for the Transfer Water within the service areas of the Buyers, which are all contained within the existing authorized SWP service area; and

3. Authorize additional purposes of use for irrigation, municipal and industrial, and domestic where those purposes are not specified in the existing water rights.

The existing points of diversion and rediversion, place of use and purpose of use in the City’s Permits would continue to be valid and utilized.

Sacramento will forego diversion of the Transfer Water in the Lower American River and Sacramento River and allow each Buyer (as stipulated in a separate Conveyance Agreement between the Buyers, each Seller and DWR) to take control of the Transfer Water at Sacramento’s point of diversion furthest downstream on the American River. The Transfer Water will then flow down the Sacramento River and across the Delta to the proposed additional temporary points of diversion. DWR then will divert the Transfer Water at the Banks Pumping Plant and Barker Slough Pumping Plant Intake. After diversion, the Transfer Water will either be conveyed for use in the Buyers’ service areas or potentially rediverted and stored in San Luis Reservoir or other facilities for later use by the Buyers. Conveyance of the Transfer Water will be scheduled in cooperation with DWR such that it will use available surplus release, pumping and transmission capacity and will not disrupt normal SWP operations. The proposed Transfer would be carried out in compliance with all existing laws and regulatory constraints on diversions from the Delta.

Only existing facilities will be utilized to accomplish the Transfer. The Transfer does not involve construction or modification of any facilities. Because the proposed Transfer would be conducted to replace existing water demands that otherwise would be unsatisfied in 2022 because of cutbacks in the Buyers’ SWP contractual entitlements, land uses within Sacramento’s service area and affected portions of the SWP service areas will not change as a result of this Transfer. This Transfer is needed to provide supplemental water supplies to the Buyers, which have been affected by reduced 2022 water supply allocations due to the dry hydrology. Because its purpose is to make up for unavailable water supplies normally used by the Buyers, the proposed Transfer will not result in any land use changes.

CEQA is not required for this proposed transfer because temporary water transfers (one year or less) under Water Code sections 1725 through 1732 are statutorily exempt from CEQA. (Water Code, § 1729; CEQA Guidelines, § 15282(u).) Sacramento will file a notice of exemption for this transfer upon the SWRCB’s approval of the Petition.

The proposed transfer will be conducted in compliance with the guidelines issued in the Draft Technical Information for Preparing Water Transfer Proposals as published by the California Department of Water Resources (“DWR”) and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Sacramento and the other American River sellers will enter into a conveyance agreement with DWR that will stipulate specific and applicable implementation measures for the transfer to assure the transfer complies with subdivision (d) of Water Code section 1810.

The amount of potential changes in streamflow, water quality, timing of diversion or use, return flows, and effects on legal users of water will be insignificant or non-existent and therefore will not cause adverse economic, physical, or environmental effects. The transfer of up to 16,101 AF from the lower American River is a small increment of the water that will be bypassed from direct diversion along the American River during the transfer period of July 1 through November

30. Cumulatively, the bypass of direct diversion of the water rights held by the City of Sacramento, CWD, and San Juan Water District would equate to no more than approximately 70 cfs daily of additional flow in the lower American River between July 1 and September 30 and no more than approximately 40 cfs in October and November. The Transfer water will be released over several months on the same pattern it would have been diverted and used by the Sellers. The Transfer water left in the Lower American River will comprise an increasingly small increment of water as it flows downstream when compared to the flows in the lower American River, Sacramento River and the Delta.

As explained below, the Transfer involves a small quantity of water compared to the volumes of water moving through these river systems. Table 1 presents the average daily Delta outflow, river flows, and SWP and CVP pumping rates as average flow rates during the period July through November, which includes the proposed transfer period. The data presented in Table 1 averages flows from 2015 through 2021. This information provides context for the approximate average flow of 70 cfs in July through September from the transfer and 40 cfs for October through November for SWRCB consideration as required by Water Code §1727(b)(1).

Table 1 – Representative Average Monthly Flow Conditions for Various Locations along the Proposed Transfer Pathway (all values in cfs) 1

Because of the minimal changes to existing conditions, the environment will not be adversely affected by the proposed Transfer. The only effects of the Transfer on the environment will be a very slight increase in river flows from the current points of diversion along the Lower American River to the proposed points of diversion and rediversion at the SWP Facilities. It should be noted that any increases in flows resulting from the Transfer will be well within historical average flows in the affected streams.

When the Transfer water is diverted by the SWP Facilities, DWR will divert all water in compliance with all existing state and federal regulations, including the salmon and smelt biological opinions, Decision 1641, and existing regulatory requirements. Given the negligible flow rate compared to existing and historic operations, the Transfer will not unreasonably affect fish, wildlife or other instream beneficial uses.

(For additional details, please see accompanying Petition) Coordination with Regional Water Quality Control Board
This Transfer will not require any construction and its operation will not generate waste or wastewater containing sewage or chemicals of any kind. As explained in Attachment No.1 to the

1 Lower American Flow Data from – USGS Station - http://cdec.water.ca.gov/dynamicapp/staMeta?station_id=AFO and Central Valley Operations Reports - https://www.usbr.gov/mp/cvo/pmdoc.html

Location July August September October November
Lower
American
River
1,145 939 641 687 614
Sacramento
River at
Freeport
7,200 7,303 7,447 12,035 8,370
Delta Inflow 8,899 8,635 8,217 13,434 10,041
Combined

SWP/ CVP
Pumping
1,040 1,296 2,588 3,351 5,209
Delta
Outflow 3,328 3,545 1,542 13,127 2,816

Petition, the amount of water that Sacramento proposes to transfer will only slightly increase anticipated 2022 baseline water flows in the Lower American and Sacramento Rivers and in the Delta and will be within the range of historical flows. This negligible increase in estimated 2022 flows resulting from the proposed transfer is not expected to cause erosion, turbidity, or sedimentation.

Photographs
The present and proposed points of diversion include existing facilities that are well known to and documented with the SWRCB’s Division of Water Rights (“Division”). In addition, the present and proposed places of use also are well known to and documented with the Division.

Providing photographs of the present and proposed points of diversion and places of use would be redundant and, therefore, none are included with this Environmental Information form.

Maps
Sacramento’s existing point of diversion on the American River at the Fairbairn Water Treatment Plant, and existing place of use are shown on the map filed with the Division for Permit 11359 and 11360. Sacramento’s existing place of use encompasses its retail service area, which is where the surface water proposed to be transferred would otherwise be used. The proposed temporary points of diversion for the SWP Banks Pumping Plant and Barker Slough Pumping Plant Intake, and the temporary point of rediversion at San Luis Reservoir are shown on maps filed with the Division for DWR’s Application 5630. The proposed additional place of use is a portion of the SWP service area, as shown on Map 1878 – 2 and – 3 on file with the Division under Application 5630.

May 4, 2022

Mr. Erik Ekdahl, Deputy Director
Division of Water Rights
State Water Resources Control Board
P.O. Box 2000
Sacramento, CA 95812-2000

Transmitted via Email and US Mail

Subject: City of Sacramento Petition for Change Involving Water Transfer Under Permits 11359, and 11360.

Dear Mr. Ekdahl:

On behalf of the City of Sacramento (City), enclosed are the following documents supporting a request by the City for a Petition for Change Involving Water Transfer (Petition) under the City’s Permits 11359 and 11360 (Permits).

1. Petition for Change Involving Water Transfers Form for each of the two Permits with Attachment. (one original and one copy).

2. Environmental Information Form with Attachment for each Permit describing how the permits will work together for the cumulative transfer (one original and one copy).

3. Two checks for a combined amount of $9,173 based on a total quantity proposed to be made available for transfer, up to 10,366 acre feet.
a. $4,586.50 to support a proposed transfer of 5,183 acre-feet under permit 11359 b. $4,586.50 to support a proposed transfer of 5,183 acre-feet under permit 11360

4. Two checks in the amount of $850/each to cover the fee for the Department of Fish and Wildlife.

The City is petitioning to temporarily add a point of diversion, point of rediversion, place of use, and purposes of use to its Permits 11359 and 11360 as part of a multi-agency groundwater substitution transfer from the American River region. The City is one of three sellers that rely on the American River for their surface water supplies and seek to transfer up to 16,101 acre-feet of water to participating State Water Contractor (SWC) Agencies through groundwater substitution. Two of the three sellers are petitioning the State Water Board to temporarily add points of diversion, points of rediversion, places of use and purposes of use to their water rights to enable the temporary transfer.

This petition is largely similar to the approved groundwater substitution transfer under permit 11360 in 2020. The addition of Permit 11359 is to better align with annual diversion reports to SWRCB and to better align with the City’s anticipated plan to rely upon rediversion of previously stored water in the summer and fall of 2022 as expressly provided for under those permits. While the City normally diverts water under the four permits through a single coordinated operating agreement with USBR, we recognize review of a proposed groundwater substitution transfer this year may be best facilitated by focusing on only two of the four permits that have rights dedicated to the City of

Sacramento by SWRCB from the Upper American River Project (UARP) storage facilities operated by Sacramento Municipal Utilities District (SMUD) and upstream of Folsom Reservoir. The interactions of agreements between SMUD, United States Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) and the City, are described under SWRCB Decision 893 to provide the City reliable access to previously stored water.

The City acknowledges that further storage under these permits was curtailed in short periods 2021, however access to diversion of the previously stored water was expressly provided by SWRCB rulemaking in 2021 given the prior storage actions. The City has identified that adequate storage in the UARP already exists to support the City’s necessary diversions for this year. The use groundwater in lieu of surface water as proposed within this Petition will allow this released flow to continue downstream to other beneficial uses rather than being diverted through the City’s points of diversion.

We recognize the urgent nature of transfers – involving agreements with buyers, petitions, review and approvals processes, and ultimately delivery to the buyers. We appreciate your attention to these petitions and ask that you contact us immediately if you have questions or require additional information.

Sincerely,

Brett Ewart
Supervising Engineer
Department of Utilities

cc: Bill Busath, Director of Utilities
Samuel Boland-Brien, SWRCB
Andy Chu, DWR, ([email protected])
Anna Fock, DWR ([email protected])
Michelle Snapp, CVRWQCB ([email protected]) Lauren Mulloy, CDFW Region 2 ([email protected]) Wes Miliband, City of Sacramento Special Counsel, ([email protected]) Bradley Hubbard, Reclamation
Clerk to the Board for the following counties:

Alameda County,
Kern County,
Kings County,and
Los Angeles County via electronic mail.

MAIL FORM AND ATTACHMENTS TO:

State Water Resources Control Board

DIVISION OF WATER RIGHTS
P.O. Box 2000, Sacramento, CA 95812-2000
Tel: (916) 341-5300 Fax: (916) 341-5400
http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights

PETITION FOR CHANGE INVOLVING WATER TRANSFERS

Separate petitions are required for each water right. Mark all areas that apply to your proposed change(s). Incomplete forms may not be accepted. Location and area information must be provided on maps in accordance with established requirements. (Cal. Code Regs., tit. 23, § 715 et seq.) Provide attachments if necessary.

Point of Diversion Point of Rediversion Place of Use Purpose of Use Wat. Code, § 1701 Wat. Code, § 1701 Wat. Code, § 1701 Wat. Code, § 1701

Temporary Urgency Temporary Change Long-term Transfer Instream Flow Dedication Wat. Code, § 1435 Wat. Code, § 1725 Wat. Code, §§ 382, 1735 Wat. Code, § 1707

Application Permit License Statement

I (we) hereby petition for change(s) noted above and described as follows:

Point of Diversion or Rediversion ± Provide source name and identify points using both Public Land Survey System descriptions to ¼-¼ level and California Coordinate System (NAD 83).

Present:

Proposed:

Place of Use ± Identify area using Public Land Survey System descriptions to ¼-¼ level; for irrigation, list number of acres irrigated.

Present:

Proposed:

Purpose of Use

Present:

Proposed:

Instream Flow Dedication ± Provide source name and identify points using both Public Land Survey System descriptions to ¼- ¼ level and California Coordinate System (NAD 83).

Upstream Location:

Downstream Location:

List the quantities dedicated to instream flow in either: cubic feet per second or gallons per day:

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

Will the dedicated flow be diverted for consumptive use at a downstream location? Yes No If yes, provide the source name, location coordinates, and the quantities of flow that will be diverted from the stream.

Proposed New User(s)
Provide the names, addresses, and phone numbers for all proposed new user(s) of the water right.

Please indicate County where
your project is located here:

Amount of Water to be Transferred

acre-feet will be transferred. If the basis of right is direct diversion, the average rate of diversion for the maximum 30-day period of use is cubic feet per second or million gallons per day.

General Information ± Provide the following information, if applicable to your proposed change(s).

Have you attached an analysis which documents that the amount of water to be Yes No transferred or exchanged would have been consumptively used or stored in the absence of the proposed temporary change or long-term transfer?

Have you attached an analysis of any changes to streamflow, water quality, timing of Yes No diversion or use, return flows, or effects on legal users from the proposed temporary change or long-term transfer?

Have you attached an analysis that shows the proposed temporary change or long- Yes No term transfer will not unreasonably affect fish, wildlife, or other instream beneficial uses?

I (we) have access to the proposed point of diversion or control the proposed place of use by virtue of:
ownership lease verbal agreement written agreement

If by lease or agreement, state name and address of person(s) from whom access has been obtained.

Give name and address of any person(s) taking water from the stream between the present point of diversion or rediversion and the proposed point of diversion or rediversion, as well as any other person(s) known to you who may be affected by the proposed change.

All Right Holders Must Sign Below: I (we) declare under penalty of perjury that this involves only the amount of water which would have been consumptively used or stored in the absence of the proposed temporary change, and that the above is true and correct to the best of my (our) knowledge and belief.

Dated at .

__________________________________________ __________________________________________ Right Holder or Authorized Agent Signature Right Holder or Authorized Agent Signature

NOTE: All petitions must be accompanied by:
(1) the form Environmental Information for Petitions, available at:
http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/publications_forms/forms/docs/pet_info.pdf (2) Division of Water Rights fee, per the Water Rights Fee Schedule, available at:
http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/water_issues/programs/fees/ (3) Department of Fish and Wildlife fee of $850 (Pub. Resources Code, § 10005)

1 Attachment 1
Petition for Change Involving Transfer
2022 American River Region
Temporary Groundwater Substitution Transfer Program

City of Sacramento – Permit 11360
Introduction
Several American River water purveyors (“Sellers”) have joined together to transfer up to 16,101 acre-feet of surface water during July, August, September, October, and November 2022 to Santa Clara Valley Water District (“SCVWD”) and a consortium of State Water Contractors (“SWC”) through the Dry Year Transfer Program. The SWC’s participants include: Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, Kern County Water Agency, Alameda County Water District, Napa County Flood Control & Water Conservation District, Kings County Water District, Palmdale Water District, Dudley Ridge Water District, Zone 7 Water Agency, Central Coast Water Authority, and Antelope Valley-East Kern Water Agency. Collectively, SCVWD and SWCs are the “Buyers”.

Sellers will forego using the surface supplies that they would otherwise divert from the American River in 2022 to serve their water demands and instead pump groundwater to serve their demands. The surface water supplies that will be transferred by Sellers are diverted under three post-1914 appropriative rights – License 1387 and Permits 11359 and 11360 – and one pre-1914 appropriative water right Statement of Diversion and Use (“SODU”) S000656. Each post-1914 appropriative water right requires the filing of a separate Petition for Change Involving Water Transfers (“Petition”) under Water Code sections 1725 through 1732 in order to request a temporary change to the point of diversion and rediversion, place of use, and purpose of use from the State Water Resources Control Board (“State Water Board”). And the transfer under S000656 requires United States Bureau of Reclamation concurrence and an analysis under the California Environmental Quality Act.

The City of Sacramento (“Sacramento”), one of the Sellers, is seeking to transfer up to 10,366 acre-feet under its two water right permits – Permit 11359 and 11360. Under this Petition for Change Involving Transfer (“Petition”) Sacramento seeks to transfer up to 5,183 acre-feet under Permit 11360. The total transfer under this Petition would contribute to the American River Region’s total transfer volume of up to 16,101 acre- feet. This document describes the proposed temporary regional American River groundwater substitution transfer (“Transfer”), the agencies participating in the Transfer, and the subcomponents that are specific to Sacramento’s Transfer under this Petition.

Temporary Groundwater Substitution Transfer
While this petition is focused exclusively on the City of Sacramento and its partnerships with Sacramento Suburban Water District and Sacramento County Water Agency to make City surface water available, the overall 2022 American River Region Temporary

2 Groundwater Substitution Transfer Program will include seven agencies that use surface water diverted from the American River watershed and groundwater pumped from two groundwater subbasins on the north and south sides of the American River: the North American Groundwater Subbasin (Basin I.D. 5-021.64)1 and the South American Groundwater Subbasin (5-021.65)2 (see Appendix A for Basin Descriptions). This Transfer reflects the regional cooperation among the participating public agencies to conjunctively manage their water supplies and integrate system operations.

The following water purveyors are participating in this regional Transfer either by providing surface water for delivery to the Buyers and pumping groundwater in lieu of surface water use in their own service areas or pumping and delivering groundwater to Sellers to satisfy area demands in lieu of the transferred surface water:
• City of Sacramento – Seller and groundwater pumper
• Carmichael Water District – Seller and groundwater pumper • Sacramento Suburban Water District – groundwater pumper • Sacramento County Water Agency – groundwater pumper
• San Juan Water District – Seller
• Citrus Heights Water District – groundwater pumper
• Fair Oaks Water District – groundwater pumper
Collectively, the participants will provide up to 16,101 acre-feet of surface water to Buyers and meet local demands with pumped groundwater that otherwise would have been served with the transferred surface water. The amount of surface water received by the Buyers at the point of delivery on the American River is subject to the ongoing discussions with the California Department of Water Resources related to streamflow depletion calculations.

The American River water purveyors have a comprehensive conjunctive management approach that accurately accounts for all extraction and recharge in the groundwater basins.

This program is described in more detail later in this Petition.

The Sellers are entering into two separate agreements with the Buyers that set forth the terms for the temporary groundwater substitution transfer. The Agreement with SCVWD is titled “Water Transfer Agreement Between Carmichael Water District, San Juan Water District, City of Sacramento, and Santa Clara Valley Water District” and the Agreement with DWR DYTP is titled the “Purchase Agreement for Water Transfer Between Buyer and Seller.” The groundwater pumpers will provide the groundwater that will be used in lieu of the transferred surface water supplies through existing regional management activities.

The Buyers will take delivery of the Sellers’ surface water and the California Department of Water Resources (“DWR”) will convey each Seller’s surface water supply pursuant to a separate “Conveyance Agreement.” The Conveyance Agreement will also allow DWR

1 California Department of Water Resources, Bulletin 118, https://water.ca.gov/Programs/Groundwater- Management/Bulletin-118.
2 California Department of Water Resources, Bulletin 118, https://water.ca.gov/Programs/Groundwater- Management/Bulletin-118.

3 to deliver the separate SCVWD surface water supply to the South Bay Aqueduct for eventual delivery to SCVWD’s service area as well as deliver water to the SWC participants. The requested temporary changes to Permit 11360 include the following:

1. Proposed New Users: Santa Clara Valley Water District, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, Kern County Water Agency, Alameda County Water District, Napa County Flood Control & Water Conservation District, Kings County Water District, Palmdale Water District, Dudley Ridge Water District, Zone 7 Water Agency, Central Coast Water Authority, and Antelope Valley-East Kern Water Agency..

2. Proposed Additional Points of Diversion/Rediversion: No change in the City’s present points of diversion and rediversion are proposed. There are two additional points of diversion/rediversion to add: (i) The SWP’s Harvey O. Banks Pumping Plant (“Banks”) will be added as a point of rediversion and (ii) the Barker Slough Pumping Plant Intake (“North Bay Intake”) to allow the Department of Water Resources (“DWR”) to wheel the water to Buyers’ service areas. Both of these proposed additional points of rediversion are described in more detail below. The proposed additional points of rediversion is identified on maps filed with the Division of Water Rights under Application 5630 (SWP).

a. The first point of diversion is described as: Banks Pumping Plant via Clifton Court Forebay: N 2,126,440 ft., E 6,256,425 ft., California Coordinate System Zone 3, NAD 83, being within the NW 1/4 of SE 1/4 of Projected Section 20, T1S, R4E, MDB&M. This point of diversion is identified on the maps noted above.

b. The second point of diversion is described as: North Bay Aqueduct Intake via Barker Slough: North 216,350 fee and East 2,064,750 feet, California Coordinate System Zone 2, NW1/4 of SE ¼ of Projected Section 20 T5N, R2E, MDB&M. This point of diversion is identified on the maps noted above.

3. Proposed Point of Rediversion: The San Luis Reservoir (“SLR”) will be added as a point of rediversion from water diverted at Banks to allow DWR to wheel and remanage delivery of some of the Transfer water to the Buyers. SLR is identified on maps filed with the Division of Water Rights under Application 5630 (SWP).

Specifically, the point of rediversion for San Luis Reservoir is described as: N 1,845,103 ft., E 6,393,569 ft., California Coordinate System Zone 3, NAD 83, being within the NW 1/4 of SE 1/4 of Projected Section 20, T1S, R4E, MDB&M.

This point of rediversion is identified on maps filed with the Division of Water Rights under Application 5630 (SWP).

4. Proposed Additional Places of Use: The transferred water will be used within the Buyers’ specific service areas contained within the State Water Project’s (“SWP”) service area. The service areas are shown on the SWP service area map, Map

4 1878-1, 2, and 3 on file with the Division of Water Rights under Application 5630.

5. Proposed Additional Purposes of Use: Domestic, Municipal and Industrial, and Irrigation (for any such purposes not included as a purpose of use on each unique petitioner’s water rights).

The proposed Transfer involves surface water rights and groundwater production with established beneficial use histories and system interties that allow regional groundwater deliveries where necessary to facilitate the regional transfer approach. Table 1 summarizes the total transferable surface water supplies for each surface water right that results from the sustainable production well information for the participating groundwater pumpers. Sacramento will transfer surface water and Sacramento, Sacramento Suburban Water District (“SSWD”), and Sacramento County Water Agency (“SCWA”) will pump groundwater in lieu of using Sacramento surface water supplies. Carmichael Water District (“CWD”) will deliver surface water supplies and use CWD groundwater in lieu of the surface water supplies. San Juan Water District (“SJWD”) will transfer surface water supplies and Citrus Heights Water District (“CHWD”) and Fair Oaks Water District (“FOWD”) will use groundwater in lieu of the transferred surface water supplies.

Table 1 – Seller Groundwater Substitution and Surface Water Transfer Quantities

The Transfer Water depicted in Table 1 shows the maximum amount of transferrable surface water that the Sellers may transfer with sustainable groundwater pumping from its existing conjunctive use management actions. Sacramento will transfer 10,366 acre- feet of surface water and Sacramento, SSWD, and SCWA will pump 10,366 of groundwater (the sum of 3,214 AF, 2,800 AF, and 3990 AF) to serve their customers that would otherwise have received Sacramento’s surface water. Half of the proposed 10,366 transfer by the City of Sacramento is included within this specific petition. The remaining half is included in a companion petition.

Surface Water Transfer Quantity and Groundwater Substitution Quantity CWD SSWD Sac County City of Sac CHWD FOWD
Total
GW Sub
own serv. own serv
and City into City own serv. own serv. own serv.

Jul 345 914 500 770 502 453 3,484
Aug 389 836 500 800 496 446 3,468
Sep 447 575 500 870 460 507 3,359
Oct 323 447 650 810 364 470 3,064
Nov 292 441 650 740 305 298 2,726
Transfer Water 1,795 3,214 2,800 3,990 2,127 2,175 16,101 Surface and
Groundwater

5 Sacramento Transfer Proposal Under Permit 11360

This Petition is unique to the City of Sacramento’s Permit 11360. The information presented below follows the transfer rules under California Water Code sections 1725 through 1732 and California Code of Regulations section 794 et seq.

City of Sacramento
Sacramento seeks State Water Board approval for the Transfer under its post-1914 appropriative water right Permit 11360:

1. Current Points of Diversion and Rediversion: Sacramento’s points of diversion and rediversion under Permit 11360 include all of the following (precise details of the points of diversion and rediversion are provided in Permit 11360 documents and Decision 893): As noted in the City’s Application 012321 for P11360, up to 314,000 acre-feet per year is permitted for storage and eventual rediversion each year.3 This UARP water is stored and released under control and management of SMUD in the UARP for their own purposes and then dedicated to the City for consumptive use downstream.4 The water eventually makes its way downstream to be reimpounded and released from Folsom and Lake Natoma as operated by USBR for the City of Sacramento.5

a. Rubicon River
b. Rockbound Creek
c. Gerle Creek
i. Loon Lake Dam
ii. Gerle Dam
d. South Fork Rubicon River
i. Robbs Peak Dam
e. Silver Creek
i. Union Valley Dam
ii. Junction Dam
iii. Camino Dam
f. Brush Creek
g. South Fork American River
i. Slab Creek Dam
ii. Chili Bar Dam
h. American River
i. American River Water Treatment Plant (formerly called E.A.

Fairbairn Water Treatment Plant)
ii. Additional points of rediversion between Folsom Dam and Sacramento River
i. Sacramento River

3 Application A012622, section 2b
4 Application A012622, supplemental paragraph 15 and 19 5 Application A012622, supplemental paragraph 4 and 15

6 i. City of Sacramento Water Treatment Plant

2. Current Place of Use: City of Sacramento and vicinity, including additional portions of Sacramento County, as described in Permit 11360 and shown on maps applicable to Permit 11360.

3. Current Purpose of Use: Municipal, Domestic, Industrial and Recreational beneficial uses
Sacramento will forgo diverting 5,183 acre-feet of previously stored surface water under Permit 11360 and make that water available to Buyers. This water, less any component of the supply that is subject to recharge requirements imposed by the California Department of Water Resources in the Conveyance Agreement, would be delivered to Buyers for rediversion at Banks and the North Bay Intake for use in Buyer’s service areas. Upon State Water Board approval of the petition, the transfer will be exempt from CEQA review under Water Code section 1729. The remaining half of the overall proposed transfer (another 5,183 acre-feet) by the City will be under a companion petition for transfer for Permit 11359.

Sacramento has notified the United States Bureau of Reclamation (“Reclamation”) of its intent to transfer Sacramento’s water supply in accordance with the 1957 water rights operating agreement between the parties that was adopted by the State Water Board as part of Decision 893, with that agreement contractually obligating Reclamation to operate its American River storage facilities so as to make available in the American River sufficient water that originated from the various tributaries and points of storage in the Upper American River Project (UARP) for Sacramento’s diversions up to the amounts specified in the operating agreement. Because Permit 11360 and other agreements as recognized by SWRCB under D893 authorizes the City to divert water previously stored in Folsom Reservoir and various upstream reservoirs in SMUD’s UARP, the City’s ability to divert the previously stored water is excluded from curtailment under the State Water Board’s current curtailment methodology.

Streamflow Depletion Factor
The Sellers acknowledge that prior groundwater substitutions transfers have required a one-time streamflow depletion factor (SDF) between 8% and 13% to mitigate for losses of surface water over extended periods due to the Transfer. The Sellers also acknowledge the SWRCB’s concern that the 13% statewide SDF may not be adequately protective due to successive dry years barring a program to actively accelerate recharge. However, the Sellers have participated in an actively managed regional conjunctive use program for the past two decades. The results of this program can be seen in a statistical analysis of groundwater level trends6 completed by the California Department of Water Resources (DWR). The area of increasing groundwater levels (green) in Figure 1 below coincides with the service area of this Transfer. The DWR analysis was based on an annual

6 https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/b3886b33b49c4fa8adf2ae8bdd8f16c3

7 measured increments. As such, some areas of the basin have recovered by about 20 feet during the 20 year period. Note that nearly no other area in the state can demonstrate this trend over this period. Because groundwater levels have been increasing over this period, depletions from the lower American River have also declined. This further supports continuing use of the 13% SDF for this Transfer.

Figure 1. DWR Long-Term Groundwater Level Trend Analysis

A more recent example of prior conjunctive use activities can be seen following a Transfer completed in 2018, which saw an increase in groundwater pumping. When wet conditions emerged in 2019, the City of Sacramento returned surface water to its Transfer partners that pumped groundwater in 2018, resulting in substantial in-lieu recharge. This in turn resulted in spring 2020 groundwater elevations being higher than spring 2018 groundwater elevations, despite 2020 being a dry year. This mitigated the stream depletions associated with the 2018 Transfer. The City made this commitment to return the water under contract agreements. Figure 2 shows these increased groundwater elevations in two of the Transfer monitoring wells. As a reminder, the collective groundwater levels illustrated below are all improved from the period of record dating back to 1998 depicted in the DWR analysis shown above.

8 Figure 2. Groundwater Elevations in Two Transfer Monitoring Wells

Prior to this proposed 2022 Transfer, the City will again execute recharge agreements with partner agencies for return of the Transfer water during wet conditions when surface water is abundant. As an additional benefit, the City will enhance the return water by increasing amounts, up to an additional 25% of the Transfer volume depending on SWRCB evaluation of this petition. These agreements are designed to mitigate for SDF losses and ensure long-term groundwater sustainability; however, the City proposes to maintain a 13% SDF for the 2022 Transfer out of an abundance of caution in addition to the recharge agreements. The City will supply fully executed agreements to SWRCB upon approval by respective Boards or Councils.

9 Groundwater Pumper Information
The Transfer will include groundwater pumping by six participating public agencies that conjunctively use groundwater supplies pumped from the portion of the North American Groundwater Subbasin and South American Groundwater Subbasin within Sacramento County on both sides of the American River. The groundwater pumping will total up to 16,101 acre-feet of water in the months of July, August, September, October, and November as presented in Table 2. This groundwater substitution amount equals the surface water supplies proposed in the Transfer.

Table 2 –Groundwater Substitution Quantities

Figure 3 shows the location of the production wells that will be used for the entire Transfer associated with all of the Sellers.

Groundwater Substitution Quantity (acre-feet)
CWD SSWD Sac County City of Sac CHWD FOWD
Total
GW Sub
own serv. own serv
and City into City own serv. own serv. own serv.

Jul 345 914 500 770 502 453 3,484
Aug 389 836 500 800 496 446 3,468
Sep 447 575 500 870 460 507 3,359
Oct 323 447 650 810 364 470 3,064
Nov 292 441 650 740 305 298 2,726
1,795 3,214 2,800 3,990 2,127 2,175 16,101
pumping
above
baseline

10 Figure 3. Map of Groundwater Production Wells for Transfer

The groundwater pumping and use details of all groundwater pumpers related to this Transfer are described below. Only wells which have been approved by DWR and Reclamation will be used for the proposed Transfer, following the guidelines issued in the Draft Technical Information for Preparing Water Transfer Proposals, dated December 2019 (“White Paper”).7

In accordance with Water Code Section 1745.10, the groundwater pumping necessary to facilitate the Transfer is within historical pumping baselines for each participating agency and within the safe yield as determined by the Sacramento Groundwater Authority (“SGA”) and Sacramento Central Groundwater Authority (“SCGA”) under their respective Groundwater Sustainability Plans (“GSPs”). Moreover, the Transfer has obtained consistency determinations from both Groundwater Sustainability Agencies

7 California Department of Water Resources and United States Bureau of Reclamation, Draft Technical Information for Preparing Water Transfer Proposals, Information for Parties Preparing Proposals for Water Transfers Requiring Department of Water Resources or Bureau of Reclamation Approval, December 2019 (White Paper).

11 denoting that the Transfer comports with both GSPs as required by the White Paper.8 In addition, the agencies participating in the Transfer are actively participating in conjunctive use efforts in the region. Letters indicating consistency with the GSPs are attached as Appendix B to this Petition attachment. As a result, the pumping required for the Transfer will not result in undesireable affects to either the North American Subbasin or South American Subbasin.

Groundwater Pumpers Related to Permits 11359 and 11360
Only three of the groundwater pumpers participating in the Transfer will be using groundwater in lieu of surface water supplies that would have been provided to them under Permit 11359 and Permit 11360. The three groundwater pumpers are the City of Sacramento, Sacramento Suburban Water District, and Sacramento County Water Agency. The details of their groundwater pumping activities are described below.

City of Sacramento
Sacramento will pump a maximum of 3,990 acre-feet of groundwater in lieu of using surface water under Sacramento’s surface water supply Permits 11359 and 11360 that would otherwise have been used to meet customer demands in 2022. Sacramento will use the wells Sacramento identified in Table 3 below to pump the substitution water.

Sacramento’s proposed groundwater pumping is within its historical groundwater pumping and use, and the wells it will pump from to facilitate the Transfer have passed all certification requirements.

Sacramento Suburban Water District
SSWD will pump a maximum of 3,214 acre-feet of groundwater to replace surface water that would have otherwise been used under Sacramento’s Permits 11359 and 11360 to meet customer demands in 2022. Depending on internal demands, either all of this additional groundwater pumping will be used within SSWD’s service area in lieu of the Permit supply water historically used in SSWD under the 2004 Wholesale Agreement between the City and SSWD or, if remainder is available after satisfying SSWD internal demands, it will be delivered by SSWD to Sacramento through a metered intertie located on Enterprise Road and operated as part of SSWD’s Enterprise Pumping Plant and Storage Reservoir (“the Enterprise Intertie”). This substitution groundwater will be used in lieu of the City’s Permit surface water supplies that are normally used in the water rights place of use. SSWD will use the wells SSWD identified in Table 3 to pump the substitution water. The Enterprise Intertie allows Sacramento and SSWD to share water resources. Use of the facility during previous groundwater substitution transfers demonstrated that SSWD can deliver over 30 cubic feet per second (“cfs”) from SSWD operated groundwater wells to Sacramento while still meeting SSWD’s own customer needs. SSWD’s proposed groundwater pumping is within its historical groundwater pumping and use, and the wells it will pump from to facilitate the Transfer have passed all certification requirements. SSWD has been actively operating an in-lieu groundwater banking system since 1998, which has helped to recover groundwater levels in the North American Groundwater Subbasin in the area of Sacramento County north of the

8 White Paper at 27-28.

12 American River. SSWD files reports on its conjunctive use activities with the State Water Board and SGA

Sacramento County Water Agency
SCWA will pump and deliver a maximum of 2,800 acre-feet of groundwater to replace surface water used under Sacramento’s Permits 11359 and 11360 that would have otherwise been used by the City in 2022 to serve its customers. SCWA will use the wells SCWA identified in Table 3 to pump the substitution groundwater at approximately 500 acre-feet per month from July through September and 650 acre-feet per month in October and November. SCWA’s proposed groundwater pumping is within its historical groundwater pumping and use, and the wells it will pump from to facilitate the Transfer have passed all certification requirements. SCWA will deliver the pumped groundwater through the metered Franklin Intertie located at 5119 Lake Pleasant Drive in Sacramento.

SCWA has been actively operating an in-lieu groundwater banking system since the mid 2000’s which has helped to increase groundwater levels in the South American Groundwater Subbasin in the area of Sacramento County south of the American River.

SCWA files reports on its conjunctive use activities with the Sacramento Central Groundwater Authority.

13 Table 3 – Groundwater Production Wells for City, SSWD and SCWA

Agency Local Well Name Latitude [N] Longitude [W]
Sacramento Suburban Water District SSWD 2A 38.6069 -121.3982 Sacramento Suburban Water District SSWD 3A 38.5978 -121.3980 Sacramento Suburban Water District SSWD 4B 38.6175 -121.4116 Sacramento Suburban Water District SSWD 9 38.6110 -121.3634 Sacramento Suburban Water District SSWD 13 38.6198 -121.3961 Sacramento Suburban Water District SSWD 20A 38.5978 -121.3813 Sacramento Suburban Water District SSWD 26 38.6181 -121.3591 Sacramento Suburban Water District SSWD 30 38.6046 -121.4227 Sacramento Suburban Water District SSWD 32A 38.6145 -121.3504 Sacramento Suburban Water District SSWD 33A 38.6412 -121.3704 Sacramento Suburban Water District SSWD 35 38.6005 -121.3591 Sacramento Suburban Water District SSWD 40A 38.6305 -121.3978 Sacramento Suburban Water District SSWD 47 38.5945 -121.3519 Sacramento Suburban Water District SSWD 55A 38.5873 -121.3584 Sacramento Suburban Water District SSWD 60 38.6279 -121.3586 Sacramento Suburban Water District SSWD 65 38.6362 -121.3751 Sacramento Suburban Water District SSWD 66 38.6249 -121.3623 Sacramento Suburban Water District SSWD 70 38.5788 -121.4110 Sacramento Suburban Water District SSWD 71 38.5841 -121.3534 Sacramento Suburban Water District SSWD 73 38.5832 -121.3368 Sacramento Suburban Water District SSWD 74 38.5823 -121.3382 City of Sacramento SAC-091 38.6115 -121.4786
City of Sacramento SAC-093 38.6220 -121.4766
City of Sacramento SAC-120 38.6207 -121.4426
City of Sacramento SAC-122 38.6202 -121.4316
City of Sacramento SAC-129 38.6383 -121.4467
City of Sacramento SAC-131 38.6399 -121.4274
City of Sacramento SAC-133 38.6470 -121.4684
City of Sacramento SAC-137 38.6296 -121.4198
City of Sacramento SAC-138 38.6414 -121.4359
City of Sacramento SAC-139 38.5966 -121.4582
City of Sacramento SAC-143 38.6222 -121.4458
City of Sacramento SAC-153A 38.6543 -121.4468
City of Sacramento SAC-155 38.6343 -121.4115
City of Sacramento SAC-158 38.5963 -121.4269
City of Sacramento SAC-165 38.4533 -121.4142
Sacramento County Water Agency W-041 38.4192 -121.4186
Sacramento County Water Agency W-042 38.4197 -121.4437
Sacramento County Water Agency W-043 38.4187 -121.4377
Sacramento County Water Agency W-047 38.4254 -121.4299
Sacramento County Water Agency W-056 38.4054 -121.4761
Sacramento County Water Agency W-061 38.4657 -121.3700
Sacramento County Water Agency W-064 38.4601 -121.3562
Sacramento County Water Agency W-065 38.4383 -121.3873
Sacramento County Water Agency W-067 38.4563 -121.3533
Sacramento County Water Agency W-068 38.46 -121.3625
Sacramento County Water Agency W-069 38.4455 -121.3533
Sacramento County Water Agency W-070 38.4311 -121.4583
Sacramento County Water Agency W-075 38.4047 -121.4810
Sacramento County Water Agency W-078 38.3904 -121.4153
Sacramento County Water Agency W-109 38.3976 -121.4193
Sacramento County Water Agency W-110 38.3966 -121.4241
Sacramento County Water Agency W-126 38.4055 -121.4003
Sacramento County Water Agency W-129 38.4036 -121.4030
Sacramento County Water Agency W-130 38.4055 -121.4115
Citrus Heights Water District CHWD 08 38.6794 -121.2861 Citrus Heights Water District CHWD 11 38.6974 -121.2776 Citrus Heights Water District CHWD 13 38.6784 -121.2899 Citrus Heights Water District CHWD 15 38.6956 -121.2761 Fair Oaks Water District Heather 38.6504 -121.2910
Fair Oaks Water District Town 38.6433 -121.2697
Fair Oaks Water District Northridge 38.6596 -121.2555
Fair Oaks Water District Madison 38.6647 -121.2475
Carmichael Water District Willow Park 38.6049 -121.3427 Carmichael Water District Garfield Ave 38.6230 -121.3360 Carmichael Water District LaVista Drive 38.6194 -121.3326 Carmichael Water District Barrett School 38.6419 -121.3154 Carmichael Water District Winding Way 38.6451 -121.3066

14 Groundwater Monitoring, Reporting, and Mitigation Plan As a condition of participation in the proposed temporary transfer, the Sellers have developed a Groundwater Monitoring, Reporting, and Mitigation Plan (“Plan”) to ensure the proposed transfer does not result in any unreasonable and adverse impacts to the groundwater basin or third parties. This Plan allows the Regional Water Authority (“RWA”) to coordinate monitoring and mitigation between Sacramento Groundwater Authority (“SGA”) and Sacramento Central Groundwater Authority (“SCGA”). The Plan accesses an expansive groundwater monitoring well network in order to conduct groundwater pumping measurements, monitor groundwater levels, evaluate groundwater quality, assess land subsidence, and prepare appropriate documentation describing the data gathered. The Plan is attached to this Petition as Appendix C.

The key characteristics of the Plan are outlined below for ease of review. The Transfer proponets will:

• Monitor in real time, through active SCADA systems, instantaneous water level measurements to show groundwater levels on a weekly timestep. These monitoring actions are ongoing functions in the GSPs and will be calibrated against threshold water level elevations.

• Monitor groundwater pumping with calibrated instantaneous flow meters to show groundwater pumping on a weekly timestep.

• Continue to monitor water quality derived from each drinking water well that meets all Tittle 22 water quality requirements administered by the State Board’s Division of Drinking Water.

• Report groundwater measurement results to the California Department of Water Resources on a monthly basis as well as prepare a final report on the Transfer evaluating impacts, if any, resulting from the Transfer.

• Coordinate among designated points of contact for monitoring and reporting of Transfer-related data.

• Reduce future groundwater extractions, if necessary, to ensure full recharge of an impacts resulting from the Transfer. These actions will be addressed in the the final Transfer report.

15 Other Transfer Information
The following information describes the entire Transfer proposal between the Sellers and the Buyers, and is inclusive of Sacramento’s contribution of surface water to the Transfer water quantity. All of the information provided below applies similarly to each Change Petition considered as part of the 2022 American River Temporary Groundwater Substitution Transfer Program considered by the SWRCB.

The surface water that will be delivered under the Transfer would have been consumptively used but for the Transfer as required under the White Paper guidelines.

Specifically, each Seller has historically used its surface water supply to meet consumptive uses within the water asset place of use. In this instance, the Sellers will forego using the surface water and use groundwater in lieu of the surface water transferred. Thus, the only water transferred will be water that otherwise would have been consumptively used.

In addition, absent the Transfer, neither the Sellers nor groundwater pumpers would use the groundwater that will be pumped as part of this transaction as part of the participating agencies’ on-going conjunctive use efforts consistent with SGA’s and SCGA’s Groundwater Sustainability Plans. But for the Transfer, the Sellers and groundwater pumpers would have used the surface water supplies described in this document to meet their customers’ demands. As such, the groundwater that will be used in lieu of the transferred surface water will only be pumped because of the Transfer.

Analysis of Streamflow, Water Quality and Other Affects The amount of potential changes in streamflow, water quality, timing of diversion or use, return flows, and effects on legal users of water will be insignificant or non-existent and therefore will not cause adverse economic, physical, or environmental effects. The transfer of up to 16,101 AF from the lower American River is a small increment of the water that will be bypassed from direct diversion along the American River during the transfer period of July 1 through November 30. Cumulatively, the bypass of direct diversion or rediversion of the water rights held by the City of Sacramento, CWD and San Juan Water District would equate to no more than approximately 70 cfs daily of additional flow in the lower American River between July 1 and September 30 and no more than approximately 40 cfs in October and November.

Downstream of City of Sacramento’s Fairbairn Water Treatment Plant the Transfer will increase the flow in the lower reach of the lower American River and in the Sacramento River by up to 70 cfs. The Transfer water will be released over several months on the same pattern it would have been diverted and used by the Sellers. The Transfer water left in the Lower American River will comprise an increasingly small increment of water as it flows downstream when compared to the flows in the lower American River, Sacramento River and the Delta.

As explained below, the Transfer involves a small quantity of water compared to the volumes of water moving through these river systems. Table 4 presents the average daily Delta outflow, river flows, and SWP and CVP pumping rates as average flow rates during the period July through November, which includes the proposed transfer period.

16 The data presented in Table 4 averages flows from 2015 through 2021. This information provides context for the approximate average flow of 70 cfs in July through September from the transfer and 40 cfs for October through November for SWRCB consideration as required by Water Code §1727(b)(1).

Table 4 – Representative Average Monthly Flow Conditions for Various Locations along the Proposed Transfer Pathway (all values in cfs) 9

The 16,101 AF of water will not be transferred all at once, but will be left in the lower American River and conveyed across the Delta to Banks and the North Bay Intake at the rate of approximately 70 cfs (approx.140 acre-feet per day) over the three-month July through September 2021 period and approximately 40 cfs (80 acre-feet per day) in the October and November 2021 period. The transfer of up to an additional 16,101 AF during this period would increase flow volumes and flow rates by only a very small amount compared to the total in any of the water bodies listed. Thus, while the exact operations required to implement the proposed Transfer cannot be stated with precision at this time, the Transfer will not affect streamflow or water quality. And, given that the Transfer is consistent with the historic and documented diversion rates of the Sellers, the Transfer will not affect the timing of diversion or use. The use of groundwater in-lieu of the surface diversions will not change the patterns and use of water by Sellers’ customers.

Thus, to the extent they exist, any return flows to the American River would remain unchanged. This action is unrelated to any changed release or operating decisions made

9 Lower American Flow Data from – USGS Station -
http://cdec.water.ca.gov/dynamicapp/staMeta?station_id=AFO and Central Valley Operations Reports - https://www.usbr.gov/mp/cvo/pmdoc.html

Location July August September October November
Lower
American
River
1,145 939 641 687 614
Sacramento
River at
Freeport
7,200 7,303 7,447 12,035 8,370
Delta Inflow 8,899 8,635 8,217 13,434 10,041
Combined

SWP/ CVP
Pumping
1,040 1,296 2,588 3,351 5,209
Delta
Outflow 3,328 3,545 1,542 13,127 2,816

17 by USBR. This Transfer is in no way being proposed as a form of reservoir reoperation of federal facilities.

Because of the minimal changes to existing conditions, other legal users of water will not be adversely affected by the proposed Transfer. The only effects of the Transfer on other legal users of water will be a slight increase in river flows from the current points of diversion along the Lower American River to the proposed points of diversion and rediversion at the SWP Facilities. It should be noted that any increases in flows resulting from the Transfer will be well within historical average flows in the affected streams.

When the Transfer water is diverted by the SWP Facilities, DWR will divert all water in compliance with all existing state and federal regulations, including the salmon and smelt biological opinions, Decision 1641, and existing regulatory requirements. Given the negligible flow rate compared to existing and historic operations, the Transfer will not unreasonably affect fish, wildlife or other instream beneficial uses. A compliation of the downstream diversions between the existing points of diversion and the proposed points of diversion may be found on DWR’s eWRIMS database at the following link:
https://ciwqs.waterboards.ca.gov/ciwqs/ewrims/EWServlet?Redirect_Page=EWWaterRig htPublicSearch.jsp&Purpose=getEWAppSearchPage

18 Proposed New Users Information

Cindy Kao, Ph.D, P.E.

Imported Water Manager
Santa Clara Valley Water District
5750 Almaden Expressway
San Jose, CA 95118

Eric Chapman
Deputy General Manager
State Water Project Contractors
1121 L Street, Suite 1050
Sacramento, California 95814-3944

On behalf of the following agencies:

Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
Kern County Water Agency
Dudley Ridge Water District
Kings County Water District
Central Coast Water Authority
Alameda County Water District
Antelope Valley-East Kern Water Agency
Zone 7 Water Agency
Napa County Flood Control and Water Conservation District Palmdale Water District

5-021.64 SACRAMENTO VALLEY - NORTH

AMERICAN
Basin Boundaries
Summary
The North American groundwater subbasin lies in the eastern central part of the Sacramento Valley groundwater basin. The northern boundary of the subbasin is the Bear River and the Yuba/Placer County Line. The eastern boundary is the edge of the alluvial basin, where little or no groundwater flows into or out of the groundwater basin from the rock of the Sierra Nevada. The southern boundary is the American River and the western boundary is the Sacramento and Feather Rivers.The boundary is defined by 11 segments detailed in the descriptions below.

Segment Descriptions
Segment
Label
Segment
Type
Description Ref
1-2 I
Stream Begins from point (1) and follows the Bear River to point (2). {a} 2-3 I
County Continues from point (2) and follows the Placer/Yuba County line to point (3).
{b}
3-4 E
Alluvial Continues from point (3) and generally follows the contact of Quaternary alluvium and Tertiary nonmarine deposits with granitic and volcanic rocks of the Sierra Nevada to point (4).
{c}
4-5 E
Alluvial Continues from point (4) and generally follows the contact of Quaternary alluvium and Tertiary nonmarine deposits with granitic and volcanic rocks of the Sierra Nevada to point (5).
{d}
5-6 I
Stream Continues from point (5) and follows the American River to point (6). {a} 6-7 I
County Continues from point (6) and follows the Yolo County line to point (7). {b} 7-1 I
Stream Continues from point (7) and follows the Sacramento then Feather River to the end at point (1).
{a}
8-8 E
Non-Alluvial Starts from point (8) and generally follows the contact of Tertiary nonmarine deposits with granitic rocks and ends at point (8). {e}
9-9 E
Non-Alluvial Starts from point (9) and generally follows the contact of Tertiary nonmarine deposits with granitic rocks and ends at point (9). {e}
10-10 E
Non-Alluvial Starts from point (10) and generally follows the contact of Tertiary nonmarine deposits with granitic rocks and ends at point (10). {e}

Significant Coordinates
Point Latitude Longitude
1 38.939424473 -121.580819122
2 38.99645406 -121.414767149
3 39.037967572 -121.338380784
4 38.997738471 -121.320471903
5 38.681559392 -121.176915204
6 38.594075098 -121.507979595
7 38.782426125 -121.615152878
8 38.849882894 -121.25475384
9 38.839345704 -121.254907382
10 38.818610845 -121.251496297

Map
5-021.64 SACRAMENTO VALLEY - NORTH AMERICAN
https://sgma.water.ca.gov/webgis/?appid=160718113212&subbasinid=5-021.64 References
Ref Citation Pub
Date
Global
ID
{a} United States Geological Survey (USGS), National Hydrography Dataset, Flowline Dataset for California, note: Coordinated effort among the United States Department of Agriculture-Natural Resources Conservation Service (USDA-NRCS), the United States Geological Survey (USGS), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).URL: http://nhd.usgs.gov/data.html 2/1/2016 1
{b} California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire), California Counties and Paired Dataset (cnty15_1).URL:
http://frap.fire.ca.gov/data/frapgisdata-subset
2/14/15 2
{c} California Geological Survey (CGS), Geologic Atlas of California Map No. XX, Chico Sheet, 1:250,000.
1962 12
{d} California Geological Survey (CGS), Geologic Atlas of California Map No. XX, Sacramento Sheet, 1:250,000.
1965 19
{e} California Geological Survey (CGS), Regional Geologic Map No. 1A, Sacramento Quadrangle, 1:250,000, D.L. Wagner, C.W. Jennings, T.L. Bedrossian, and E.J.

Bortugno.URL:
http://www.quake.ca.gov/gmaps/RGM/sacramento/sacramento.html 1981 5

Footnotes
I: Internal
E: External

5-021.65 SACRAMENTO VALLEY - SOUTH

AMERICAN
Basin Boundaries
Summary
The South American Subbasin is a portion of the Sacramento Valley Groundwater Basin located in the Northern Region of California. The northern boundary is the American River, beginning at its confluence with the Sacramento River, and extending northeasterly, upstream to the City of Folsom where the boundary becomes the geologic contact between sediments and fractured bedrock for a short distance further northeast.

The eastern boundary is the geologic contact between sedimentary rock and fractured bedrock. The southern boundary extends southwesterly along the Cosumnes River to the confluence with the Mokelumne River and continues southwesterly to Dead Horse Cut (canal). The western boundary includes a short segment for Dead Horse Cut, Snodgrass Slough, and the Delta Cross Channel and then follows the Sacramento River to its confluence with the American River. The basin boundary is made up of seven (7) segments which are detailed in the descriptions below.

Segment Descriptions
Segment
Label
Segment
Type
Description Ref
1-2
I
Stream Begins from point (1) and follows the American River to point (2). {a} 2-3 E
Non-Alluvial Continues from point (2) and follows geologic contact between various sedimentary rocks and Jurassic bedrock to point (3).
{b}
3-4 I
Stream Continues from point (3) and follows the Cosumnes River to point (4). {a} 4-5 I
Stream Continues from point (4) and follows the Mokelumne River downstream to point (5).
{a}

5-6 I
Stream Continues from point (5) and follows Dead Horse Cut (canal), Snodgrass Slough, and the Delta Cross Canal to point (6).
{a}

6-7 I
Stream Continues from point (6) and follows the Sacramento River upstream to point (7).
{a}

7-1 I
County Continues from point (7) and follows the Yolo/Sacramento county line to end at point (1).
{c}

Significant Coordinates
Point Latitude Longitude
1 38.594075098 -121.507979595
2 38.681559392 -121.176915204
3 38.492463874 -121.090947389
4 38.255281302 -121.439398359
5 38.227786075 -121.493920588
6 38.247116808 -121.510885322
7 38.480810878 -121.547089168

Map
5-021.65 SACRAMENTO VALLEY - SOUTH AMERICAN
https://sgma.water.ca.gov/webgis/?appid=160718113212&subbasinid=5-021.65 References
Ref Citation Pub
Date
Global
ID
{a} United States Geological Survey (USGS), National Hydrography Dataset, Flowline Dataset for California, note: Coordinated effort among the United States Department of Agriculture-Natural Resources Conservation Service (USDA-NRCS), the United States Geological Survey (USGS), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).URL: http://nhd.usgs.gov/data.html 2/1/2016 1
{b} California Geological Survey (CGS), Regional Geologic Map No. 1A, Sacramento Quadrangle, 1:250,000, D.L. Wagner, C.W. Jennings, T.L. Bedrossian, and E.J.

Bortugno.URL:
http://www.quake.ca.gov/gmaps/RGM/sacramento/sacramento.html 1981 5
{c} California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire), California Counties and Paired Dataset (cnty15_1).URL:
http://frap.fire.ca.gov/data/frapgisdata-subset
2/14/15 2
Footnotes
I: Internal
E: External

April 21, 2022
Mr. Jim Peifer
Executive Director
Sacramento Groundwater Authority
5620 Birdcage Street, Ste 180
Citrus Heights, CA 95610
Transmitted via email.

RE: 2022 Water Transfer Notification

Dear Mr. Peifer,
The City of Sacramento (COS), Sacramento Suburban Water District (SSWD), Carmichael Water District (CWD), Citrus Heights Water District (CHWD), Fair Oaks Water District (FOWD) and San Juan Water District (SJWD) have identified an opportunity to participate in a regional groundwater substitution transfer (Transfer) over the period of July 1st, 2022 to November 30th, 2022. In preparing the transfer document, the regional partners are following the Department of Water Resources (DWR) draft 2019 guidebook. See link below:
https://water.ca.gov/-/media/DWR-Website/Web-Pages/Programs/State-Water- Project/Management/Water-
Transfers/Files/Draft_WTWhitePaper_20191203.pdf?la=en&hash=F0ACE02168387A77EDDDB844545E7 F7A4642A05F
We draw your attention to page 30, which identifies a required consultation with the appropriate GSA.

Excerpt below:

Pursuant to DWR’s latest draft guidebook for preparing water transfer proposals, this letter is intended to serve as a request for concurrence that the proposed transfer is consistent with the recently adopted Groundwater Sustainability Plan (GSP) for the North American Subbasin (NASb).

Participation will be achieved in the following fashion:

1) COS will preferentially utilize up to 3,400 acre-feet (ACFT) of additional groundwater over recent wet/non-transfer year extractions in the Transfer window, and 2) SSWD will preferentially utilize (or deliver to COS) up to an additional 3,200 ACFT rather than receive surface water from COS, and
3) CWD will reduce surface water diversions and rely instead on its own groundwater resources by an estimated additional 1,200 ACFT and relying on the equivalent groundwater supply from its own sources, and
4) SJWD will forgo up to 4,302 ACFT of surface water diversions, which will be replaced by combined groundwater extractions by CHWD and FOWD.

The additional dry year extractions from the collective agencies will be approximately 12,000 ACFT over recent wet/non-transfer year baseline conditions as defined by DWR in the 2019 White Paper.

The proposed extractions from the collective agencies are within historic extractions that have been reduced in recent years by a combination of reduced customer demand and/or reliance on surface water. They, and the proposed transfer volumes, are also understood to be consistent with the Sacramento Groundwater Authority (SGA) Water Accounting Framework (WAF).

COS, CWD, and SJWD will return to normal surface water diversions when hydrologic conditions are appropriate to maintain a positive balance in the WAF.

The collective agencies also understand the recently submitted GSP contemplates the increased reliance on groundwater during drier hydrologic conditions as proposed herein and thus understand the proposed Transfer to be consistent with the GSP.

We also believe this program is consistent with the commitments under the Water Forum to shift toward groundwater reliance during drier conditions and then rely more on surface water when hydrologic conditions are more favorable (I.e., practice conjunctive use). On April 11, 2022, the Water Forum issued its monthly runoff report. The Lower American River projected March through November runoff of currently 729 TAF, which is a “Wedge Year” as defined by the Water Forum.

Please note that other parties in the South American Subbasin, including COS and Sacramento County Water Agency are both considering participation in the Transfer. The Transfer volumes included in this notification letter, unless otherwise noted, would occur exclusively in the North American Subbasin In closing, COS, SSWD, CWD, CHWD, FOWD, and SJWD wish to highlight a key component of the planned Transfer, all additional groundwater extracted as part of the 2022 Water Transfer, will be returned in the form of in-lieu recharge through greater reliance on surface water during appropriate hydrologic conditions.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.

Sacramento Suburban Water District Carmichael Water District

By: _____________________________ By: _____________________________

Dan York Cathy Lee
General Manager General Manager

Citrus Heights Water District Fair Oaks Water District

By: _____________________________ By: _____________________________

Hilary Straus Tom Gray
General Manager General Manager

San Juan Water District City of Sacramento

By: _____________________________ By: _____________________________

Paul Helliker Brett Ewart
General Manager Supervising Engineer

Regional Water Authority
Building Alliances in Northern California
5620 Birdcage Street
Suite 180
Citrus Heights, CA 95610
Tel: (916) 967-7692
Fax: (916) 967-7322
www.rwah2o.org

Dan York, Chair
Tony Firenzi, Vice
Chair

Members

California American Water
Carmichael Water District
Citrus Heights Water District
Del Paso Manor Water
District
El Dorado Irrigation District
Elk Grove Water District
Fair Oaks Water District
Folsom, City of
Golden State Water
Company
Lincoln, City of
Orange Vale Water Company
Placer County Water Agency
Rancho Murieta Community
Services District
Roseville, City of
Sacramento, City of
Sacramento County Water
Agency
Sacramento Suburban Water
District
San Juan Water District
West Sacramento, City of
Yuba City, City of

Associates

County of Placer
El Dorado County Water
Agency
Sacramento Area Flood
Control Agency
Sacramento Municipal Utility
District
Sacramento Regional County
Sanitation District

April 28, 2022

Transmitted via e-mail

Dear Ms. Lee, Mr. Ewart, Mr. Gray, Mr. Helliker, Mr. Straus and Mr. York,

This is in response to your 2022 Water Transfer Notification dated April 21, 2022. Your letter indicates that your agencies intend to extract up to an additional 12,000 acre-feet of groundwater from the North American Subbasin between July 1, 2022 and November 30, 2022 to participate in a proposed groundwater substitution transfer.

The California Department of Water Resources 2019 Water Transfer White Paper (draft) requires consultation with the appropriate Groundwater Sustainability Agency (GSA) to determine consistency with the applicable Groundwater Sustainability Plan (GSP). The Sacramento Groundwater Authority (SGA) serves as the GSA for all of the area from which the pumping will occur, as well as serving as the administering agency for the North American Subbasin GSP.

After review of the proposed groundwater extractions, SGA finds that the actions are consistent with the GSP. The volumes of groundwater extraction and the potential for transfers as a part of a conjunctive use program for the subbasin were fully considered in GSP development and found to be consistent with the long-term sustainability of the groundwater resource. We also find that the proposed operations are consistent with the SGA Water Accounting Framework adopted by SGA in 2010.

Please feel free to contact Rob Swartz of my staff at [email protected] or 916-607- 9208, if you need any additional information.

Sincerely

James Peifer
Executive Director

April 19, 2022

Mr. John K Woodling
Executive Director
Sacramento Central Groundwater Authority
827 7th St., Rm 301 Sacramento, CA 95814

Transmitted via email.

RE: 2022 Water Transfer Notification

Dear Mr. Woodling,
The City of Sacramento (COS), and the Sacramento County Water Agency (SCWA) have identified an opportunity to participate in a regional groundwater substitution transfer over the period of July 1st, 2022 to November 30th, 2022 subject to approval by the COS Council and SCWA Board of Directors. In preparing the transfer document, the regional partners are following DWR’s draft 2019 Water Transfer White Paper. See the link below:
https://water.ca.gov/-/media/DWR-Website/Web-Pages/Programs/State-Water- Project/Management/Water-
Transfers/Files/Draft_WTWhitePaper_20191203.pdf?la=en&hash=F0ACE02168387A77EDDDB844545E7 F7A4642A05F
We draw your attention to page 30, which identifies a required consultation with the appropriate GSA.

Excerpt below:

Pursuant to DWR’s latest draft guidelines for preparing water transfer proposals, this letter is designed to serve as a request for consultation that the proposed transfer is consistent with the recently submitted Groundwater Sustainability Plan (GSP) for the South American Subbasin (SASb). Participation in the Transfer will be achieved in the following fashion:

 Sacramento County Water Agency will deliver approximately 2800 acre-feet of groundwater to the City of Sacramento through the Franklin Intertie, thereby allowing the City to reduce surface water diversions from the Lower American River.
 The City will preferentially increase municipal pumping by up to 1700 acre-feet, further reducing surface water diversion.

Consistency with GSP
In evaluating the increased groundwater pumping against the SASb GSP, SCWA and COS provide SCGA with the total planned extractions for the SASb:

Total municipal extractions for the SCWA are planned to be less than 27TAF, which includes the 2800AF to COS (Exhibit 1). SCWA also encourages the reviewer to consider significant investments in the surface water diversion, treatment and delivery infrastructure that has resulted in increased volumes of surface water imported into the basin in-lieu of groundwater since 2012. This overall planned extraction for 2022 is lower than projected dry year extractions in the SCWA 2020 Urban Water Management Plan Multi-year drought forecasts (Exhibit 2) and is also lower than projected dry year extractions in the GSP (Exhibits 3 &4).

City municipal groundwater extractions in the SASb has typically ranged from 1000-2500 acre-feet in any given year. This year the maximum extraction for municipal needs is expected to not exceed 3000 acre-feet, which includes the proposed Transfer volume of up to 1700 AFY. The GSP exhibit for COS (Exhibit 5) is inclusive of north and south projections but is provided here for consistency.

Exhibit 6 is an excerpt from the water demand and supply tables for each entity in the SASb area that were used to support the modeling analysis in the GSP. This table provides detailed assumptions for the COS water use for the SASb area. Exhibit 7 is an excerpt from the recently completed Groundwater Master Plan for COS. Please note that page 4-6 in the GSP indicated the incorporation of the Groundwater Master Plan into the modeling which supported the GSP. In all cases, the planned extractions for the City’s proposed Transfer are lower than anticipated within the GSP. This is inclusive of non-potable irrigation pumping dispersed throughout COS (north and south of the American River) for parks and schools which are disconnected from the COS municipal system.

In summary, the planned extractions by the SCWA and COS are within the range of pumping volumes considered in the SASb GSP for each entity for both the Current and Projected conditions, which is indicative of no impacts on the SASb groundwater sustainability conditions based on the GSP.

We also believe this program is consistent with the commitments under the Water Forum to shift toward groundwater reliance during drier conditions i.e. “Conjunctive Use” and then rely more on surface water when hydrologic conditions are more favorable. On April 11, 2022, the Water Forum issued its monthly runoff report. The Lower American River projected March through November runoff of currently 729 TAF, which is a “Wedge Year” as defined by the Water Forum.

Return of Water
In 2020 SCWA and the City partnered on a similar transfer when SCWA sent the City 1,741AF of groundwater. During that Transfer, the COS committed to returning the water to the Basin. Exhibit 1 illustrates that COS completed that return within a year.

COS is committing to a similar return of water this year to allow recharge to occur. If deemed necessary by the Water Board to mitigate streamflow depletion concerns SCWA and COS are open to returning an increased percentage of the water proposed to be sent to COS.

Please note that other parties in the North American Subbasin, including COS, Sacramento Suburban Water District, Citrus Heights Water District, Fair Oaks Water District, San Juan Water District, and Carmichael Water District are all considering participation in the Regional Transfer. The transfer volumes included in this notification letter would occur exclusively in the South American Subbasin.

In closing, we wish to highlight a key component of the planned water transfer; All additional groundwater extracted as part of the 2022 Water Transfer is within past operational regimes and/or included within the SASb GSP. Through conjunctive use operations during appropriate hydrologic conditions recharge will be prioritized.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if questions arise.

City of Sacramento: Sacramento County Water Agency:

By: _____________________________ By: _____________________________ Brett Ewart Scott Hutcheson
Supervising Engineer Principal Engineer

Exhibit 1.

SCWA Production
SCWA (service areas within the South American Sub Basin)

Groundwater
Extractions
(AF)
Surface Water
(AF)
Transfer
Pumping To
City (AF)
Transfer
Pumping From
City (AF)
Total
Production/Ext
raction (AF)
2000 19,016 1,595 0 0 20,611
2001 18,210 3,044 0 0 21,254
2002 19,447 4,355 0 0 23,802
2003 20,570 4,040 0 0 24,610
2004 25,336 4,202 0 0 29,538
2005 27,860 5,040 0 0 32,900
2006 29,098 4,825 0 0 33,923
2007 31,217 5,403 0 0 36,620
2008 34,320 3,344 0 0 37,664
2009 34,327 1,409 0 0 35,736
2010 32,233 1,496 0 0 33,729
2011 29,866 3,677 0 0 33,543
2012 25,465 9,922 0 0 35,387
2013 23,005 13,969 0 0 36,974
2014 23,113 7,933 0 0 31,046
2015 20,709 6,415 663 0 27,786
2016 18,890 10,368 0 0 29,258
2017 17,203 17,897 0 -354 34,746
2018 16,835 17,421 0 0 34,256
2019 14,731 19,839 0 0 34,570
2020 22,575 18,146 1,741 -90 42,372
2021 22,132 14,336 402 -1,724 35,146
*2022 27,520 6,559 2,791 N/A 36,870
Average 24,073 8,054 243 -99 32,276

Exhibit 2
SCWA 2020 Urban Water Management Plan

Exhibit 3
SaSb Groundwater Sustainability Plan Excerpt (page 1291)

Exhibit 4
SaSb Groundwater Sustainability Plan Excerpt (page 1292)

Exhibit 5
SaSb Groundwater Sustainability Plan Excerpt (page 1286)

Exhibit 6
SaSb Groundwater Sustainability Plan Excerpt (technical background)

Exhibit 7
COS Groundwater Master Plan

827 7th St, Rm 301
Sacramento, CA 95814

Sacramento Central Groundwater Authority Tel: (916) 874-6851 Managing Groundwater Resources Fax: (916) 874-5698
in Central Sacramento County s cgah2 o. sacc ounty. net

John Woodling
Interim Executive Director

California-American
Water Company

City of Elk Grove
City of Folsom
City of Rancho Cordova
City of Sacramento
County of Sacramento
Florin Resource Conservation
District/Elk Grove Water
Service
Golden State Water Company
Omochumne-Hartnell
Water District

Rancho Murieta Community
Services District

Sacramento Regional
County Sanitation District

Agricultural Representative

Agricultural-Residential
Representative

Commercial/Industrial
Representative

Conservation Landowners

Public Agencies/Self-
Supplied Representative
April 26, 2022

Mr. Brett Ewart
City of Sacramento
Department of Utilities
1395 35th Avenue
Sacramento, CA 95822

Mr. Scott Hutcheson
Sacramento County Water Agency
827 7th Street
Sacramento, CA 95814

RE: 2022 Groundwater Substitution Water Transfer

Dear Mr. Ewart and Mr. Hutcheson:

On April 19, 2022, the Sacramento Central Groundwater Authority (SCGA) received a notification that the City of Sacramento and Sacramento County Water Agency were considering undertaking a groundwater substitution water transfer over the period July 1, 2022 to November 20, 2022. The transfer would include the pumping of 4500 acre-feet of additional groundwater from the South American Subbasin and the forbearance of a like amount of surface water that would be transferred to parties outside the subbasin.

The California Department of Water Resources 2019 Water Transfer White Paper (draft) requires consultation with the appropriate Groundwater Sustainability Agency (GSA) to determine consistency with the applicable Groundwater Sustainability Plan (GSP). The SCGA serves as the GSA for all of the area from which the pumping will occur, as well as serving as the administering agency for the South American Subbasin GSP.

After review of the proposed groundwater extractions, SCGA finds that the actions are consistent with the GSP. The volumes of groundwater extraction and the potential for transfers as a part of a conjunctive use program for the subbasin were fully considered in GSP development and found to be consistent with the long-term sustainability of the groundwater resource.

Please contact me at (916) 812-9118 or [email protected] if you have any questions regarding this finding of consistency.

Sincerely,
John Woodling
GSP Manager, South American Subbasin

DRAFT – SUBJECT TO ADDITIONAL REVIEW AND COMMENT BY DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES Monitoring and Mitigation Program
This is a regionally-coordinated groundwater substitution transfer from areas north and south of the American River in Sacramento County. The following entities are participating in the proposed transfer either by providing surface water for delivery to the Buyers and/or pumping and delivering groundwater in lieu of the foregone surface water to meet local demands that otherwise would have been served with the transferred surface water:
• Carmichael Water District (CWD) Seller and groundwater pumper • City of Sacramento (COS) Seller and groundwater pumper • Sacramento County Water Agency (SCWA) groundwater pumper • Sacramento Suburban Water District (SSWD) groundwater pumper • San Juan Water District (SJWD) Seller
• Citrus Heights Water District (CHWD) groundwater pumper • Fair Oaks Water District (FOWD) groundwater pumper

The proposed transfer is being coordinated by the Regional Water Authority (RWA), which is the designated Regional Water Management Group by the Department of Water Resources (DWR) under the Integrated Regional Water Management (IRWM) Program. RWA is coordinating this transfer because of its potential to incentivize expanded conjunctive use operations within its IRWM planning area as a means of ensuring future water resources sustainability. RWA is coordinating with the Sacramento Groundwater Authority (SGA) and Sacramento Groundwater Authority (SCGA), which act as the respective Groundwater Sustainability Agencies (GSAs) over the transfer area in the North American and South American subbasins. This coordination will ensure that the monitoring plan objectives for the transfer proposal and the groundwater sustainability objectives of the GSAs are met.

Monitoring Well Network
The locations of the transfer and monitoring wells for the participating agencies are shown in Figure 1. There are 68 transfer wells and 24 monitoring wells that will each be monitored for the transfer. Location and construction information for each well will be uploaded to the WTIMS system.

Groundwater Pumping Measurements
Each of the transfer wells in the transfer is equipped with a calibrated instantaneous and totalizing flow meter. Each respective seller will be responsible for taking flow meter readings prior to initiation of pumping and at least monthly and as close to the end of the month as practical for the duration of the transfer period.

DRAFT – SUBJECT TO ADDITIONAL REVIEW AND COMMENT BY DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES Groundwater Levels
Water levels at monitoring wells will be collected in compliance with the December 2019 Water Transfer White Paper (White Paper). Each well has a trigger elevation and an associated well within 2 miles that will be monitored for the transfer. If monitoring of groundwater levels indicates that triggers established in the Monitoring Plan for transfer or associated wells have been exceeded, Seller will reduce or suspend pumping until the levels recover to above triggers associated with a specific pumping well and associated monitoring well.

SSWD has identified one transfer well (Well 65) that cannot be accessed for water elevations during the transfer. Well 65 has Well 33A that will be monitored and is less than 0.5 miles away; the well has similar construction. If the associated well encounters a trigger level, pumping at Well 65 will be reduced or cease pumping until such time as the associated well is in compliance. Attachment 1 to this Monitoring Program document is a table of all pumping and monitoring wells, their coordinates, top and bottom screen depths, trigger depths to water, and associated monitoring wells.

Shallow Groundwater Levels
There are no concerns with deep rooted vegetation associated with potential groundwater- dependent ecosystems (GDEs) in the transfer area. To assess this, the DWR-provided coverage of Natural Communities Commonly Associated with Groundwater (NCCAG) dataset was evaluated. Each well was then assigned a 0.5-mile buffer to assess for nearby potential GDEs.

None of the wells evaluated fell within the criteria of supporting deep-rooted vegetation and having groundwater levels between 10 to 25 below ground surface.

Groundwater Quality
Each of the transfer wells is a municipal supply well that meets Title 22 water quality requirements as administered by the State Water Resources Control Board Division of Drinking Water. Each participating agency is prepared to submit a three-year summary of specific conductance and total dissolved solids upon request by DWR. Known contaminant plumes are shown in Figure 2. These are not anticipated to be affected by transfer pumping for the following reasons: 1) the proposed pumping is well within the bounds of past pumping practices by the participating agencies; and 2) detailed, site-specific contaminant capture modeling has been conducted at the Aerojet and McClellan contaminant plumes by the respective responsible parties – results indicate effective capture with planned municipal groundwater use.

DRAFT – SUBJECT TO ADDITIONAL REVIEW AND COMMENT BY DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES Land Subsidence
Land subsidence is not a concern in the groundwater substitution area. Agencies in the region participated with DWR in its 2017 GPS Survey of the Sacramento Valley Subsidence Network.

The report compared the elevations of the valley-wide network in 2017 to the benchmark elevations established in 2008. The results of the survey clearly demonstrate that subsidence is not an issue on the eastern side of the valley, particularly in the Sacramento municipal area.

Locations of the benchmarks and the elevation difference from 2008 to 2017 are shown in Figure 3.

In addition to the recent DWR work, SGA extensively analyzed available information with respect to subsidence during development of its 2014 Groundwater Management Plan (GMP) in the transfer area north of the American River. Subsidence is not considered a concern in the SGA area as only slightly more than 2.2 feet of total subsidence was estimated between 1947 and 1991 based on USGS measurements associated with about 90 feet of groundwater level decline (rate of 0.02 feet subsidence per foot of drawdown). There was no documented damage associated with this estimated subsidence. Additionally, the 1990s represented the lowest point of groundwater elevations in the area. Since that time, local agencies have committed to a conjunctive program through the historic Water Forum Agreement of 2000.

Over the past 20 years, water levels have increased in the basin relative to their historic lows.

RWA will collect water level measurements from the participating agencies and compare them to the trigger values at these wells. RWA will report these results to DWR on a regular basis. If monitoring of groundwater levels indicates that triggers established in the Monitoring Plan for transfer or associated wells have been exceeded, Seller will reduce or suspend pumping until the levels recover to above triggers associated with a specific pumping well and associated monitoring well. If any groundwater elevations exceed these thresholds, additional monitoring and mitigation measures will occur. For monitoring, nearby wells will be checked to see if there is a regional extent to the drawdown or if it is very localized to the well. If the drawdown is regionally extensive, additional monitoring will occur. DWR’s Sacramento-valley wide land subsidence monitoring network for potential land surface elevation monitoring (see Figure 3) is available. A measurement by a licensed land surveyor will be collected at the soonest practical time following identification of an exceedance in a threshold groundwater elevation at the benchmark nearest the monitoring well with the exceedance. An additional measurement will be taken one month later. Based on those results, RWA will consult with DWR on additional potential subsidence monitoring or mitigation measures, including possible reduction or cessation of pumping.

Coordination Plan
Each of the seller agencies has designated a point of contact (POC) that has been identified in their respective transfer proposals submitted through WTIMS. The POC will be responsible for DRAFT – SUBJECT TO ADDITIONAL REVIEW AND COMMENT BY DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES communication with the well operators and other decision makers, and for the monitoring and reporting of transfer-related data. The POCs are:

CWD
Cathy Lee
(916) 483-2452
[email protected]

COS
Brett Ewart
(916) 808-1725
[email protected]

SJWD
Paul Helliker
(916) 205-8316
[email protected]

Also, each of the participating agencies is closely coordinating with the RWA as the regional IRWM manager. RWA will coordinate and prepare necessary groundwater and subsidence monitoring, and mitigation plan requirements, as stipulated in the DWR conveyance agreements. RWA’s point of contact is:

RWA
Rob Swartz
(916) 967-7692
[email protected]
Evaluation and Reporting
Each of the participating agencies will collect data, evaluate the data, and provide summary tables of data to the Project Agencies through the WTIMS site during and after the transfer.

Additionally, the data will be provided to RWA for evaluation of potential impacts at the regional level. Water level data will be provided to RWA for the purposes of developing contour maps of pre-transfer, end of transfer, and recovered groundwater elevations in March following the transfer. Each of the participating agencies will coordinate with RWA in the preparation of a final report to identify any potential transfer related impacts.

Mitigation Process
If monitoring of groundwater levels indicates that triggers established in the Monitoring Program for the transfer or associated monitoring wells have been exceeded, the applicable Seller will reduce or suspend pumping until the levels recover to above triggers associated with a specific pumping well and associated monitoring well.

DRAFT – SUBJECT TO ADDITIONAL REVIEW AND COMMENT BY DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES Seller shall be the contact for third-parties claiming impacts to their groundwater pumping operations purportedly caused by Seller’s groundwater pumping pursuant to this Agreement.

Seller shall forward any third-party impact report and Seller’s proposed response to DWR within ten business days of Seller’s receipt of the report. This reporting will trigger the following actions:

1. Seller will meet, within two business days or as soon thereafter as the claimant is available, with the claimant to develop a full understanding of the basis for the reported impact.

2. Seller will contact DWR to report the claimed impact and the basis for the claim, within 5 business days.

3. Seller, the claimant, and, if necessary, a representative of DWR, will investigate the reported impact to determine the extent of the impact and the linkage between the operation of the wells participating in the transfer and the impact. This investigation will include analysis of groundwater level, groundwater quality, and groundwater production data and any other relevant information.

4. Based on the results of the investigation, Seller will determine whether mitigation measures are necessary. The mitigation measures may include cessation of pumping, reduction in hours of pumping, lowering pump bowls of affected well(s), providing a temporary alternative water supply, or other measures determined to be appropriate during the course of discussion and investigation. Seller shall develop the mitigation measures through consultation with the claimant. Seller shall provide a copy of the mitigation measures to DWR. Seller will strive to develop the agreed upon mitigation measures within 10 business days of meeting with claimant.

5. Seller shall implement the agreed upon mitigation measures and monitor the results of its implementation to confirm that its mitigation efforts have succeeded in substantially reducing or eliminating third-party impacts. Seller maintains adequate financial resources to cover impact assessment studies and other reasonably anticipated mitigation needs.

Because mitigation measures center on reduction or cessation of pumping, the financial requirements for implementing these measures is nominal.

If, after investigation, Seller agrees that an adverse impact occurred during its water transfer, Seller shall take measures to avoid the same impact during Seller’s future water transfers. Note that the same wells participated in the 2018 and 2020 transfers, with no documented impacts from transfer pumping.

DRAFT – SUBJECT TO ADDITIONAL REVIEW AND COMMENT BY DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES

Figure 1. Location map of transfer production and monitoring wells

DRAFT – SUBJECT TO ADDITIONAL REVIEW AND COMMENT BY DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES

Figure 2. Extents of known regional contaminant plumes

DRAFT – SUBJECT TO ADDITIONAL REVIEW AND COMMENT BY DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES

Figure 3. DWR Sacramento-valley-wide land subsidence monitoring network benchmark in transfer area

DRAFT – SUBJECT TO ADDITIONAL REVIEW AND COMMENT BY DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES

Attachment 1
Table of Transfer Extraction and Monitoring Wells

DRAFT – SUBJECT TO ADDITIONAL REVIEW AND COMMENT BY DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES Local Well
Designation
Well
Purpose
Latitude
[N]
Longitude
[W]
Total
Well
Depth
Screen
Interval
Top
Screen
Interval
Bottom
Threshold
(depth to
water)
Associated Monitoring Well
SSWD 2A Production 38.6069 -121.3982 420 170 415 123 MW-11M (258-268); MW-11D (332-365) SSWD 3A Production 38.5978 -121.3980 430 220 425 120 MW-11M (258-268); MW-11D (332-365) SSWD 4B Production 38.6175 -121.4116 580 200 570 210 MW-05 (345-424) SSWD 9 Production 38.6110 -121.3634 270 170 225 125 MW-11M (258-268) SSWD 13 Production 38.6198 -121.3961 374 350 368 123 MW-05 (345-424); MW-10; 2A; 4B; 40A SSWD 20A Production 38.5978 -121.3813 475 194 400 138 MW-11M (258-268) SSWD 26 Production 38.6181 -121.3591 360 194 283 149 MW 10 (210-262) SSWD 30 Production 38.6046 -121.4227 460 370 410 211 MW-05 (345-424) SSWD 32A Production 38.6145 -121.3504 355 254 355 145 MW-Churchill M (230-270) SSWD 33A Production 38.6412 -121.3704 320 198 318 131 MW 10 (210-262) SSWD 35 Production 38.6005 -121.3591 316 152 312 155 MW-11M (258-268) SSWD 40A Production 38.6305 -121.3978 780 270 742 200 MW-05 (345-424) SSWD 47 Production 38.5945 -121.3519 350 145 346 154 MW-11M (258-268); MW-11D (332-365) SSWD 55A Production 38.5873 -121.3584 368 182 358 153 MW-11M (258-268); MW-11D (332-365) SSWD 60 Production 38.6279 -121.3586 435 165 430 146 MW 10 (210-262) SSWD 65 Production 38.6362 -121.3751 347 187 342 141 MW 10 (210-262); SSWD 33A SSWD 66 Production 38.6249 -121.3623 398 170 393 169 MW 10 (210-262) SSWD 70 Production 38.5788 -121.4110 285 160 280 140 MW 12A (200-280); MW-4 (55-65) SSWD 71 Production 38.5841 -121.3534 425 165 415 114 SSWD 72 (320-875); MW-6 (62-72) SSWD 73 Production 38.5832 -121.3368 640 315 630 151 SSWD 72 (320-875) SSWD 74 Production 38.5823 -121.3382 645 195 635 151 SSWD 72 (320-875) MW-4 Monitoring 38.5841 -121.4185 65 55 65 47 N/A
MW-05 Monitoring 38.6113 -121.4100 424 345 424 99 N/A
MW-6 Monitoring 38.5828 -121.3385 72 62 72 50 N/A
MW-10 Monitoring 38.6310 -121.3864 265 210 262 114 N/A
MW-11M Monitoring 38.6038 -121.3882 278 258 268 94 N/A
MW-11D Monitoring 38.6038 -121.3882 375 332 365 94 N/A
MW-12A Monitoring 38.5947 -121.3985 285 200 280 68 N/A
SSWD 72 Monitoring 38.5849 -121.3385 885 320 875 106 N/A SAC-091 Production 38.6115 -121.4786 344 170 324 76 SAC-092 (116-308) DRAFT – SUBJECT TO ADDITIONAL REVIEW AND COMMENT BY DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES SAC-093 Production 38.6220 -121.4766 328 146 292 54 SAC-092 (116-308) SAC-120 Production 38.6207 -121.4426 440 233 420 103 SAC-092 (116-308) SAC-122 Production 38.6202 -121.4316 422 230 400 108 SAC-127 (161-401) SAC-129 Production 38.6383 -121.4467 401 136 295 108 SAC-127 (161-401) SAC-131 Production 38.6399 -121.4274 280 150 270 128 SAC-127 (161-401) SAC-133 Production 38.6470 -121.4684 514 235 510 108 SAC-164 (222-625) SAC-137 Production 38.6296 -121.4198 410 80 245 127 SAC-127 (161-401) SAC-138 Production 38.6414 -121.4359 375 113 370 121 SAC-127 (161-401) SAC-139 Production 38.5966 -121.4582 255 90 250 74 SAC-157 (132-372) SAC-143 Production 38.6222 -121.4458 330 140 330 127 SAC-092 (116-308) SAC-153A Production 38.6543 -121.4468 626 260 616 130 SAC-164 (222-625) SAC-155 Production 38.6343 -121.4115 427 175 427 148 SAC-127 (161-401) SAC-158 Production 38.5963 -121.4269 328 113 313 96 SAC-157 (132-372) SAC-165 Production 38.4533 -121.4142 1193 1063 1183 TBD SAC-165a (1080-1180) SAC-092 Monitoring 38.6176 -121.4972 435 116 308 38 N/A SAC-127 Monitoring 38.6267 -121.4295 401 161 401 90 N/A SAC-157 Monitoring 38.5944 -121.4451 377 132 372 55 N/A SAC-164 Monitoring 38.6580 -121.4646 635 222 625 73 N/A SAC-165a Monitoring 38.4531 -121.4149 1201 1080 1180 73 N/A W-041 Production 38.4192 -121.4186 256 176 236 198 W-51 (200-249) W-042 Production 38.4197 -121.4437 245 173 245 132 W-51 (200-249) W-043 Production 38.4187 -121.4377 252 122 232 130 W-51 (200-249) W-047 Production 38.4254 -121.4299 250 108 218 110 W-51 (200-249) W-056 Production 38.4054 -121.4761 265 168 243 31 W-072 (152 - 192) Alt: W107 (150 - 214) W-061 Production 38.4657 -121.3700 914 744 896 288 W-060 (110 - 190); W-068 (842-906) W-064 Production 38.4601 -121.3562 920 780 920 280 W-060 (110 - 190); W-068 (842-906) W-065 Production 38.4383 -121.3873 250 150 220 131 W-060 (110 - 190) W-067 Production 38.4563 -121.3533 1087 918 1072 210 W-060 (110 - 190); W-068 (842-906) W-068 Production 38.46 -121.3625 921 842.00 906.00 136 W-060 (110 - 190) W-069 Production 38.4455 -121.3533 880 559 870 295 W-060 (110 - 190); W-068 (842-906) W-070 Production 38.4311 -121.4583 740 252 730 65 W-072 (152 - 192) Alt: W107 (150 - 214) W-075 Production 38.4047 -121.4810 270 162 248 31 W-072 (152 - 192) Alt: W107 (150 - 214) W-078 Production 38.3904 -121.4153 1337 855 1300 275 W-116 (1117 - 1314) DRAFT – SUBJECT TO ADDITIONAL REVIEW AND COMMENT BY DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES W-109 Production 38.3976 -121.4193 1368 1092 1329 260 W-116 (1117 - 1314) W-110 Production 38.3966 -121.4241 1350 1167 1298 231 W-116 (1117 - 1314) W-126 Production 38.4055 -121.4003 1440 995 1430 220 W-116 (1117 - 1314) W-129 Production 38.4036 -121.4030 1430 1074 1420 220 W-116 (1117 - 1314) W-130 Production 38.4055 -121.4115 1493 1050 1465 110 W-116 (1117 - 1314) W-051 Monitoring 38.4203 -121.4057 265 200.00 249.00 96.5 N/A W-060 Monitoring 38.4657 -121.37 220 110 190 66.5 N/A
W-072 Monitoring 38.4227 -121.4568 350 125.00 325.00 58 N/A W-107 Monitoring 38.4092 -121.4799 310 150.00 214.00 58 N/A W-116 Monitoring 38.3916 -121.4195 1342 1117 1314 80 N/A CHWD 08 Production 38.6794 -121.2861 479 294 400 TBD CHWD 01A (256-450) CHWD 11 Production 38.6974 -121.2776 335 210 325 TBD CHWD 10 (200-326) CHWD 13 Production 38.6784 -121.2899 380 230 370 TBD CHWD 01A (256-450) CHWD 15 Production 38.6956 -121.2761 420 220 410 TBD CHWD 10 (200-326) FOWD Heather Production 38.6504 -121.2910 630 275 610 220 Winding Way (170-595) FOWD Town Production 38.6433 -121.2697 605 250 585 230 Winding Way (170-595) FOWD Northridge Production 38.6596 -121.2555 475 308 470 323 FO-1596 (333-343) FOWD Madison Production 38.6647 -121.2475 566 326 556 310 FO-1596 (333-343) CHWD 01A Monitoring 38.6613 -121.2930 455 256 450 TBD N/A CHWD 10 Monitoring 38.6986 -121.2697 331 200 326 TBD N/A FO-1596 Monitoring 38.6481 -121.2531 343 333 343 182 N/A CAR-Willow Park Production 38.6049 -121.3427 271 221 269 159 MW-Churchill M (230-270) CAR-Garfield Ave Production 38.6230 -121.3360 637 130 637 164 MW - Churchill S (130-150); MW-Churchill D (490- 510)
CAR-LaVista Drive Production 38.6194 -121.3326 500 230 495 164 MW-Churchill M (230-270) CAR-Barrett School Production 38.6419 -121.3154 488 356 482 203 MW-Churchill D (490-510) Winding Way Production 38.6451 -121.3066 600 170 595 175 MW-Churchill M (230-270); MW-Churchill (490-510) MW-Churchill S Monitoring 38.6280 -121.3493 170 130 150 120 N/A MW-Churchill M Monitoring 38.6280 -121.3493 290 230 270 121 N/A MW-Churchill D Monitoring 38.6280 -121.3493 530 490 510 122 N/A

State of California
State Water Resources Control Board

DIVISION OF WATER RIGHTS
P.O. Box 2000, Sacramento, CA 95812-2000
Tel: (916) 341-5300 Fax: (916) 341-5400
http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights

ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION FOR PETITIONS

This form is required for all petitions.

Before the State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) can approve a petition, the State Water Board must consider the information contained in an environmental document prepared in compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). This form is not a CEQA document. If a CEQA document has not yet been prepared, a determination must be made of who is responsible for its preparation. As the petitioner, you are responsible for all costs associated with the environmental evaluation and preparation of the required CEQA documents. Please answer the following questions to the best of your ability and submit any studies that have been conducted regarding the environmental evaluation of your project. If you need more space to completely answer the questions, please number and attach additional sheets.

DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSED CHANGES OR WORK REMAINING TO BE COMPLETED For a petition for change, provide a description of the proposed changes to your project including, but not limited to, type of construction activity, structures existing or to be built, area to be graded or excavated, increase in water diversion and use (up to the amount authorized by the permit), changes in land use, and project operational changes, including changes in how the water will be used. For a petition for extension of time, provide a description of what work has been completed and what remains to be done. Include in your description any of the above elements that will occur during the requested extension period.

Insert the attachment number here, if applicable:

Coordination with Regional Water Quality Control Board

For change petitions only, you must request consultation with the Regional Date of Request Water Quality Control Board regarding the potential effects of your proposed change on water quality and other instream beneficial uses. (Cal. Code Regs., tit. 23, § 794.) In order to determine the appropriate office for consultation, see:
http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterboards_map.shtml. Provide the date you submitted your request for consultation here, then provide the following information.

Will your project, during construction or operation, (1) generate waste or wastewater containing such things as sewage, industrial chemicals, metals, Yes No or agricultural chemicals, or (2) cause erosion, turbidity or sedimentation?

Will a waste discharge permit be required for the project? Yes No

If necessary, provide additional information below:

Insert the attachment number here, if applicable:

Local Permits

For temporary transfers only, you must contact the board of supervisors for the Date of Contact county(ies) both for where you currently store or use water and where you propose to transfer the water. (Wat. Code § 1726.) Provide the date you submitted your request for consultation here.

For change petitions only, you should contact your local planning or public works department and provide the information below.

Person Contacted: Date of Contact:

Department: Phone Number:

County Zoning Designation:

Are any county permits required for your project? If yes, indicate type below. Yes No

Grading Permit Use Permit Watercourse Obstruction Permit

Change of Zoning General Plan Change Other (explain below)

If applicable, have you obtained any of the permits listed above? If yes, provide copies. Yes No

If necessary, provide additional information below:

Insert the attachment number here, if applicable:

Federal and State Permits

Check any additional agencies that may require permits or other approvals for your project:

Regional Water Quality Control Board Department of Fish and Game

Dept of Water Resources, Division of Safety of Dams California Coastal Commission

State Reclamation Board U.S. Army Corps of Engineers U.S. Forest Service

Bureau of Land Management Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Natural Resources Conservation Service

Have you obtained any of the permits listed above? If yes, provide copies. Yes No

For each agency from which a permit is required, provide the following information:

Agency Permit Type Person(s) Contacted Contact Date Phone Number

If necessary, provide additional information below:

Insert the attachment number here, if applicable:

Construction or Grading Activity

Does the project involve any construction or grading-related activity that has significantly Yes No altered or would significantly alter the bed, bank or riparian habitat of any stream or lake?

If necessary, provide additional information below:

Insert the attachment number here, if applicable:

Archeology

Has an archeological report been prepared for this project? If yes, provide a copy. Yes No

Will another public agency be preparing an archeological report? Yes No

Do you know of any archeological or historic sites in the area? If yes, explain below. Yes No

If necessary, provide additional information below:

Insert the attachment number here, if applicable:

Photographs

For all petitions other than time extensions, attach complete sets of color photographs, clearly dated and labeled, showing the vegetation that exists at the following three locations:

Along the stream channel immediately downstream from each point of diversion

Along the stream channel immediately upstream from each point of diversion

At the place where water subject to this water right will be used

Maps

For all petitions other than time extensions, attach maps labeled in accordance with the regulations showing all applicable features, both present and proposed, including but not limited to: point of diversion, point of rediversion, distribution of storage reservoirs, point of discharge of treated wastewater, place of use, and location of instream flow dedication reach. (Cal. Code Regs., tit. 23, §§ 715 et seq., 794.)

Pursuant to California Code of Regulations, title 23, section 794, petitions for change submitted without maps may not be accepted.

All Water Right Holders Must Sign This Form:

I (we) hereby certify that the statements I (we) have furnished above and in the attachments are complete to the best of my (our) ability and that the facts, statements, and information presented are true and correct to the best of my (our) knowledge. Dated at .

__________________________________________ __________________________________________ Water Right Holder or Authorized Agent Signature Water Right Holder or Authorized Agent Signature

NOTE:
 Petitions for Change may not be accepted unless you include proof that a copy of the petition was served on the Department of Fish and Game. (Cal. Code Regs., tit. 23, § 794.)  Petitions for Temporary Transfer may not be accepted unless you include proof that a copy of the petition was served on the Department of Fish and Game and the board of supervisors for the county(ies) where you currently store or use water and the county(ies) where you propose to transfer the water. (Wat. Code § 1726.)

Attachment 1
Environmental Information for Petition for Change Involving Transfer City of Sacramento – Permit 11360
Description of Proposed Changes
Petitioner City of Sacramento (“Sacramento”) proposes to transfer by groundwater substitution (“Transfer”) up to 10,366 acre-feet (“AF”) of surface water normally diverted by Sacramento under Permit 11359 and 11360 at its diversion facilities and delivered to its wholesale and retail customers. The groundwater pumped to support this transfer will be pumped by Sacramento, Sacramento Suburban Water District (“SSWD”), and Sacramento County Water Agency (“SCWA”). SSWD will forego receiving up to 3,214 AF of its contractual surface water supplies, SCWA will forego receiving 2,800 AF of its contractual surface water supplies, and Sacramento will forego 3,990 AF of its surface water supplies for the Transfer. Sacramento will leave that foregone surface water supply in the Lower American River for transfer to the following entities: Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, Kern County Water Agency, Alameda County Water District, Napa County Flood Control & Water Conservation District, Kings County Water District, Palmdale Water District, Dudley Ridge Water District, Zone 7 Water Agency, Central Coast Water Authority, and Antelope Valley-East Kern Water Agency. Collectively, SCVWD and SWCs are the “Buyers”.

Sacramento, SSWD and SCWA are part of group of Sellers that use surface supplies from the American River and groundwater from the North American Groundwater Subbasin and South American Groundwater Subbasin to meet their demands. The Sellers are collectively seeking to temporarily add points of diversion, a point of rediversion, places of use, and purposes of use to their water rights to enable transfer of approximately 16,101 acre-feet of surface water to the Buyers through groundwater substitution. The estimated availability of transferrable surface water will equal an amount negotiated between the California Department of Water Resources and the Sellers but will not exceed 16,101 acre-feet. The groundwater pumpers will extract up to 16,101 acre-feet of groundwater in the region to meet local demands otherwise served by the transferred surface supplies. This extraction is in accordance with the Groundwater Sustainability Plans (GSP) of both Sacramento Groundwater Authority and Sacramento Central Groundwater Authority. A consistency determination with both SGA’s GSP and SCGA’s GSP has been provided as required by the Water Transfer Whitepaper.

The water supplies that Sacramento proposes to transfer to the Buyers will be within the portion of the SWP service area that comprises the Buyers’ individual service areas. To make the “Transfer Water” available to the Buyers, SSWD, SCWA, and Sacramento will pump groundwater to serve their customers’ demands that otherwise would have been served with surface water diverted and treated by Sacramento for delivery to serve those demands. In addition, SSWD and SCWA will pump groundwater to serve a portion of Sacramento’s customers’ demands that otherwise would have been met with treated surface water diverted by Sacramento. The portion of groundwater supplied by SSWD to Sacramento will be delivered through the Enterprise intertie into the jointly owned Howe Avenue Transmission Main. The portion of groundwater supplied by SCWA to Sacramento will be delivered through the Franklin Intertie at 5119 Lake Pleasant Drive in Sacramento, California.

To accomplish this groundwater substitution transfer, Sacramento is requesting that the State Water Resources Control Board (“SWRCB”) approve the following temporary changes to the City’s Water Right Permit Nos. 11359 and 11360:

1. Authorize additional points of diversion for the Transfer Water at the SWP’s Harvey O. Banks Pumping Plant via Clifton Court Forebay and the Barker Slough Pumping Plant Intake, and a point of rediversion at San Luis Reservoir;

2. Authorize an additional place of use for the Transfer Water within the service areas of the Buyers, which are all contained within the existing authorized SWP service area; and

3. Authorize additional purposes of use for irrigation, municipal and industrial, and domestic where those purposes are not specified in the existing water rights.

The existing points of diversion and rediversion, place of use and purpose of use in the City’s Permits would continue to be valid and utilized.

Sacramento will forego diversion of the Transfer Water in the Lower American River and Sacramento River and allow each Buyer (as stipulated in a separate Conveyance Agreement between the Buyers, each Seller and DWR) to take control of the Transfer Water at Sacramento’s point of diversion furthest downstream on the American River. The Transfer Water will then flow down the Sacramento River and across the Delta to the proposed additional temporary points of diversion. DWR then will divert the Transfer Water at the Banks Pumping Plant and Barker Slough Pumping Plant Intake. After diversion, the Transfer Water will either be conveyed for use in the Buyers’ service areas or potentially rediverted and stored in San Luis Reservoir or other facilities for later use by the Buyers. Conveyance of the Transfer Water will be scheduled in cooperation with DWR such that it will use available surplus release, pumping and transmission capacity and will not disrupt normal SWP operations. The proposed Transfer would be carried out in compliance with all existing laws and regulatory constraints on diversions from the Delta.

Only existing facilities will be utilized to accomplish the Transfer. The Transfer does not involve construction or modification of any facilities. Because the proposed Transfer would be conducted to replace existing water demands that otherwise would be unsatisfied in 2022 because of cutbacks in the Buyers’ SWP contractual entitlements, land uses within Sacramento’s service area and affected portions of the SWP service areas will not change as a result of this Transfer. This Transfer is needed to provide supplemental water supplies to the Buyers, which have been affected by reduced 2022 water supply allocations due to the dry hydrology. Because its purpose is to make up for unavailable water supplies normally used by the Buyers, the proposed Transfer will not result in any land use changes.

CEQA is not required for this proposed transfer because temporary water transfers (one year or less) under Water Code sections 1725 through 1732 are statutorily exempt from CEQA. (Water Code, § 1729; CEQA Guidelines, § 15282(u).) Sacramento will file a notice of exemption for this transfer upon the SWRCB’s approval of the Petition.

The proposed transfer will be conducted in compliance with the guidelines issued in the Draft Technical Information for Preparing Water Transfer Proposals as published by the California Department of Water Resources (“DWR”) and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Sacramento and the other American River sellers will enter into a conveyance agreement with DWR that will stipulate specific and applicable implementation measures for the transfer to assure the transfer complies with subdivision (d) of Water Code section 1810.

The amount of potential changes in streamflow, water quality, timing of diversion or use, return flows, and effects on legal users of water will be insignificant or non-existent and therefore will not cause adverse economic, physical, or environmental effects. The transfer of up to 16,101 AF from the lower American River is a small increment of the water that will be bypassed from direct diversion along the American River during the transfer period of July 1 through November

30. Cumulatively, the bypass of direct diversion of the water rights held by the City of Sacramento, CWD, and San Juan Water District would equate to no more than approximately 70 cfs daily of additional flow in the lower American River between July 1 and September 30 and no more than approximately 40 cfs in October and November. The Transfer water will be released over several months on the same pattern it would have been diverted and used by the Sellers. The Transfer water left in the Lower American River will comprise an increasingly small increment of water as it flows downstream when compared to the flows in the lower American River, Sacramento River and the Delta.

As explained below, the Transfer involves a small quantity of water compared to the volumes of water moving through these river systems. Table 1 presents the average daily Delta outflow, river flows, and SWP and CVP pumping rates as average flow rates during the period July through November, which includes the proposed transfer period. The data presented in Table 1 averages flows from 2015 through 2021. This information provides context for the approximate average flow of 70 cfs in July through September from the transfer and 40 cfs for October through November for SWRCB consideration as required by Water Code §1727(b)(1).

Table 1 – Representative Average Monthly Flow Conditions for Various Locations along the Proposed Transfer Pathway (all values in cfs) 1

Because of the minimal changes to existing conditions, the environment will not be adversely affected by the proposed Transfer. The only effects of the Transfer on the environment will be a very slight increase in river flows from the current points of diversion along the Lower American River to the proposed points of diversion and rediversion at the SWP Facilities. It should be noted that any increases in flows resulting from the Transfer will be well within historical average flows in the affected streams.

When the Transfer water is diverted by the SWP Facilities, DWR will divert all water in compliance with all existing state and federal regulations, including the salmon and smelt biological opinions, Decision 1641, and existing regulatory requirements. Given the negligible flow rate compared to existing and historic operations, the Transfer will not unreasonably affect fish, wildlife or other instream beneficial uses.

(For additional details, please see accompanying Petition) Coordination with Regional Water Quality Control Board
This Transfer will not require any construction and its operation will not generate waste or wastewater containing sewage or chemicals of any kind. As explained in Attachment No.1 to the

1 Lower American Flow Data from – USGS Station - http://cdec.water.ca.gov/dynamicapp/staMeta?station_id=AFO and Central Valley Operations Reports - https://www.usbr.gov/mp/cvo/pmdoc.html

Location July August September October November
Lower
American
River
1,145 939 641 687 614
Sacramento
River at
Freeport
7,200 7,303 7,447 12,035 8,370
Delta Inflow 8,899 8,635 8,217 13,434 10,041
Combined

SWP/ CVP
Pumping
1,040 1,296 2,588 3,351 5,209
Delta
Outflow 3,328 3,545 1,542 13,127 2,816

Petition, the amount of water that Sacramento proposes to transfer will only slightly increase anticipated 2022 baseline water flows in the Lower American and Sacramento Rivers and in the Delta and will be within the range of historical flows. This negligible increase in estimated 2022 flows resulting from the proposed transfer is not expected to cause erosion, turbidity, or sedimentation.

Photographs
The present and proposed points of diversion include existing facilities that are well known to and documented with the SWRCB’s Division of Water Rights (“Division”). In addition, the present and proposed places of use also are well known to and documented with the Division.

Providing photographs of the present and proposed points of diversion and places of use would be redundant and, therefore, none are included with this Environmental Information form.

Maps
Sacramento’s existing point of diversion on the American River at the Fairbairn Water Treatment Plant, and existing place of use are shown on the map filed with the Division for Permit 11359 and 11360. Sacramento’s existing place of use encompasses its retail service area, which is where the surface water proposed to be transferred would otherwise be used. The proposed temporary points of diversion for the SWP Banks Pumping Plant and Barker Slough Pumping Plant Intake, and the temporary point of rediversion at San Luis Reservoir are shown on maps filed with the Division for DWR’s Application 5630. The proposed additional place of use is a portion of the SWP service area, as shown on Map 1878 – 2 and – 3 on file with the Division under Application 5630.

Monitoring Program

This is a regionally-coordinated groundwater substitution transfer from areas north and south of the American River in Sacramento County. The following entities are participating in the proposed transfer either by providing surface water for delivery to the Buyers and/or pumping and delivering groundwater in lieu of the foregone surface water to meet local demands that otherwise would have been served with the transferred surface water:
• City of Sacramento (COS) Seller and groundwater pumper • Carmichael Water District (CWD) Seller and groundwater pumper • Fair Oaks Water District (FOWD) groundwater pumper
• Golden State Water Company (GSWC) Seller and groundwater pumper • Sacramento County Water Agency (SCWA) groundwater pumper • Sacramento Suburban Water District (SSWD) groundwater pumper

The proposed transfer is being coordinated by the Regional Water Authority (RWA), which is the designated Regional Water Management Group by the Department of Water Resources (DWR) under the Integrated Regional Water Management (IRWM) Program. RWA is coordinating this transfer as a pilot, because of its potential to incentivize expanded conjunctive use operations within its IRWM planning area as a means of ensuring future water resources sustainability. RWA is coordinating with the Sacramento Groundwater Authority (SGA) and the Sacramento Central Groundwater Authority (SCGA), which act as both the Groundwater Sustainability Agencies (GSAs) over the transfer area and the designated CASGEM monitoring entities. This coordination will ensure that the monitoring plan objectives for the transfer proposal and the groundwater management objectives of the GSAs are met.

Monitoring Well Network
The locations of the transfer and monitoring wells for the participating agencies are shown in Figure 1. There are 68 transfer wells and 25 monitoring wells that will each be monitored for the transfer. Location and construction information for each well has been uploaded to the WTIMS system.

Groundwater Pumping Measurements
Each of the transfer wells in the transfer is equipped with a calibrated instantaneous and totalizing flow meter. Each respective seller will be responsible for taking flow meter readings prior to initiation of pumping and at least monthly and as close to the end of the month as practical for the duration of the transfer period. Additionally, intertie meter readings between CWD and FOWD, COS and SSWD, and COS and SCWA will be taken on the same frequency.

Intertie locations are shown in Figure 1.

Groundwater Levels
Water levels at monitoring wells will be collected in full compliance with the December 2019 Water Transfer White Paper (White Paper). Each well has a trigger elevation and an associated well within 2 miles that will be monitored for the transfer. If monitoring of groundwater levels indicates that triggers established in the Monitoring Plan for transfer or associated wells have been exceeded, Seller will reduce or suspend pumping until the levels recover to above triggers associated with a specific pumping well and associated monitoring well.

SSWD has identified three transfer wells (13, 41, and 65) that cannot be accessed for water elevations during the transfer. Well 13 is in the middle of the SSWD wellfield, and it has five wells (MW-5, MW-10, 2A, 4B, and 40A) within one mile. Additionally, Well 41 has Well 28 and Well 65 has Well 33A that will each be monitored and are less than 0.5 miles away; each well has similar construction. If any of these associated wells encounters a trigger level, pumping at wells 13, 41, and 65 will be reduced or cease pumping until such time as all the associated wells are in compliance. Attachment 1 to this Monitoring Program document is a table of all pumping and monitoring wells, their coordinates, and top and bottom screen depths, trigger depths to water, and associated monitoring wells.

There are no concerns with deep rooted vegetation associated with potential groundwater- dependent ecosystems (GDEs) in the transfer area. To assess this, a map was created using the DWR-provided coverage of Natural Communities Commonly Associated with Groundwater (NCCAG) dataset. The map also includes the Spring 2019 depth to water contour map. Each well was then assigned a 0.5-mile buffer to assess for nearby potential GDEs. The maps are shown in shown in Figure 2 and Figure 3. Each of the 34 wells that intersected an NCCAG polygon is shown in the table below. Based on review of the Spring 2019, all but 7 of the wells had depths to water of greater than 40 feet. For the remaining 7 wells, recent depth to water readings from the wells were reviewed. These actual depths are shown in Table 1, with all wells except City of Sacramento Well 139 confirmed as greater than 40 feet.

Table 1. Depth to Water at Wells within 1/2 Mile of a Mapped NCCAG Local Well Designation
If NCCAG, Depth to Water based on
Spring 2019 Regional Contour Map Static Depth to Water Level in Well SSWD 24 >100 FT
SSWD 26 >90 FT
SSWD 33A >110 FT
SSWD 40A >100 FT
SSWD 60 >110 FT
SSWD 65 >110 FT
SSWD 66 >100 FT
SSWD 70 30 FT 42.9 FT (4/2/20)
SSWD 71 >40 FT
SSWD 73 >35 FT 66.8 FT (3/30/20)
SSWD 74 >35 FT 66.1 FT (3/30/20)
SAC-091 <30 FT 40.7 FT (4/21/20)
SAC-093 <30 FT 41.4 FT (4/21/20)
SAC-120 >60 FT
SAC-123 >35 FT 52 FT (6/17/20)
SAC-124 >40 FT
SAC-126 >70 FT
SAC-129 >70 FT
SAC-133 >40 FT
SAC-137 >80 FT
SAC-138 >70 FT
SAC-139 >35 FT 33 FT (6/4/18)
SAC-143 >60 FT
SAC-153A >60 FT
SAC-155 >90 FT
SAC-156 >40 FT
W-065 >60 FT
W-067 >70 FT
W-069 >70 FT
W-126 <50 FT
W-129 50 FT
FOWD TOWN >80 FT
GSW-S. Bridge St 22A >70 FT
GSW-S. Bridge St 22B >70 FT

Based on the relatively shallow depth to water at Well 139, additional depth to water data from Well 139 that was collected as part of the 2018 groundwater substitution transfer was reviewed. Table 2 below shows that prior to commencement of the transfer the depth to water was 33 feet. During the entire transfer period, the depth to water in the well was 30 feet or greater. Therefore, the groundwater table associated with the area around the well does not support a GDE.

Table 2. Depth to Water in Well 139
Well 139
Date Time Well on/off Flow rate (gpm) Water level (fbg) 6/4/2018 12:30 pm Off N/A 33’
7/2/2018 7:15 AM Off N/A 34'
7/11/2018 13:20 Off N/A 34'
7/17/2018 11:15 Off N/A 34'
7/24/2018 11:38 Off N/A 33.5'
7/31/2018 10:30 Off N/A 34,
8/6/2018 9:30 Off N/A 34'
8/13/2018 7:15 Off N/A 34'
8/20/2018 11:05 Off N/A 34'
8/28/2018 11:00 On 730 74'
9/4/2018 8:30 Off N/A 30'
9/10/2018 13:05 On 737 78'

Groundwater Quality
Each of the transfer wells is a municipal supply well that meets Title 22 water quality requirements as administered by the State Water Resources Control Board Division of Drinking Water. Each participating agency is prepared to submit a three-year summary of specific conductance and total dissolved solids upon request by DWR. Known contaminant plumes are shown in Figure 4. These are not anticipated to be affected by transfer pumping for the following reasons: 1) the proposed pumping is well within the bounds of past pumping practices by the participating agencies; and 2) detailed, site-specific contaminant capture modeling has been conducted at the Aerojet and McClellan contaminant plumes by the respective responsible parties – results indicate effective capture with planned municipal groundwater use.

Land Subsidence
Land subsidence is not a concern in the groundwater substitution area. Agencies in the region participated with DWR in its 2017 GPS Survey of the Sacramento Valley Subsidence Network.

The report compared the elevations of the valley-wide network in 2017 to the benchmark elevations established in 2008. The results of the survey clearly demonstrate that subsidence is not an issue on the eastern side of the valley, particularly in the Sacramento municipal area.

Locations of the benchmarks and the elevation difference from 2008 to 2017 are shown in Figure 5.

In addition to the recent DWR work, SGA extensively analyzed available information with respect to subsidence during development of its 2014 Groundwater Management Plan (GMP) in the transfer area north of the American River. Subsidence is not considered a concern in the SGA area as only slightly more than 2.2 feet of total subsidence was estimated between 1947 and 1991 based on USGS measurements associated with about 90 feet of groundwater level decline (rate of 0.02 feet subsidence per foot of drawdown). There was no documented damage associated with this estimated subsidence. Additionally, the 1990s represented the lowest point of groundwater elevations in the SGA area. Since that time, local agencies have committed to a conjunctive program through the historic Water Forum Agreement of 2000.

Over the past 20 years, water levels have increased in the basin relative to their historic lows.

Figure 6 shows a groundwater elevation contour map from Spring 1997 and Figure 7 shows a contour map for 2019. Note that groundwater elevations at the center of the cones of depression north and south of the American River have come up in excess of 20 feet.

In the transfer area south of the American River, subsidence is even lower than in the north area. SCGA described subsidence in its 2006 GMP as having a maximum rate of 0.007 feet subsidence per foot of drawdown. As in the north area, historic low groundwater levels in the south area were experienced in the early 1990s.

RWA will collect water level measurements from the participating agencies and compare them to the trigger values at these wells. RWA will report these results to DWR on a regular basis. If monitoring of groundwater levels indicates that triggers established in the Monitoring Plan for transfer or associated wells have been exceeded, Seller will reduce or suspend pumping until the levels recover to above triggers associated with a specific pumping well and associated monitoring well. If any groundwater elevations exceed these thresholds, additional monitoring and mitigation measures will occur. For monitoring, nearby wells will be checked to see if there is a regional extent to the drawdown or if it is very localized to the well. If the drawdown is regionally extensive, additional monitoring will occur. DWR’s Sacramento-valley wide land subsidence monitoring network for potential land surface elevation monitoring (see Figure 5) is available. A measurement by a licensed land surveyor will be collected at the soonest practical time following identification of an exceedance in a threshold groundwater elevation at the benchmark nearest the monitoring well with the exceedance. An additional measurement will be taken one month later. Based on those results, RWA will consult with DWR on additional potential subsidence monitoring or mitigation measures, including possible reduction or cessation of pumping.

Coordination Plan
Each of the seller agencies has designated a point of contact (POC) that has been identified in their respective transfer proposals submitted through WTIMS. The POC will be responsible for communication with the well operators and other decision makers, and for the monitoring and reporting of transfer-related data. The POCs are:

CWD
Cathy Lee
(916) 483-2452
[email protected]

City of Sacramento
Brett Ewart
(916) 808-1725
[email protected]

Golden State Water Company
Paul Schubert
916) 853-3636
[email protected]

Also, each of the participating agencies is closely coordinating with the Regional Water Authority (RWA) as the regional IRWM manager. RWA will coordinate and prepare necessary groundwater and subsidence monitoring, and mitigation plan requirements, as stipulated in the DWR conveyance agreements. RWA will also communicate with the GSAs (SGA and SCGA) on the transfer. RWA’s point of contact is:

RWA
Rob Swartz
(916) 607-9208
[email protected]

Evaluation and Reporting
Each of the participating agencies will collect data, evaluate the data, and provide summary tables of data to the Project Agencies through the WTIMS site during and after the transfer.

Additionally, the data will be provided to RWA for evaluation of potential impacts at the regional level. Water level data will be provided to RWA for the purposes of developing contour maps of pre-transfer, end of transfer, and recovered groundwater elevations in March following the transfer. Each of the participating agencies will coordinate with RWA in the preparation of a final report to identify any potential transfer related impacts.

Figure 1. Location map of transfer production and monitoring wells

Figure 2. Northern area transfer wells in relation to NCCAG areas

Figure 3. Southern area transfer wells in relation to NCCAG areas

Figure 4. Extents of known regional contaminant plumes

Figure 5. DWR Sacramento-valley-wide land subsidence monitoring network benchmark in transfer area

Figure 6. Spring 2007 groundwater elevations

Figure 7. Spring 2019 groundwater elevations

Attachment 1
Table of Transfer Extraction and Monitoring Wells

Local Well
Designation
Well
Purpose
Latitude
[N]
Longitude
[W]
Total
Well
Depth
Screen
Interval
Top
Screen
Interval
Bottom
Pumping
Threshold
(depth to
water)
Method for Threshold
Determination Associated Monitoring Well
SSWD 2A Production 38.6069 -121.3982 420 170 415 123 Historic low (05/2009) MW-11M (258-268); MW-11D
(332-365)
SSWD 3A Production 38.5978 -121.3980 430 220 425 120 Historic low (10/2013) MW-11M (258-268); MW-11D
(332-365)
SSWD 4B Production 38.6175 -121.4116 580 200 570 181 Historic low (10/2017) MW-05 (345-424) SSWD 9 Production 38.6110 -121.3634 270 170 225 125 Historic low (10/2018) MW-11M (258-268) SSWD 13 Production 38.6198 -121.3961 374 350 368 123 Historic low (05/2009) MW-05 (345-424); MW-10; 2A;
4B; 40A
SSWD 20A Production 38.5978 -121.3813 475 194 400 138 Historic low (10/2009) MW-11M (258-268) SSWD 26 Production 38.6181 -121.3591 360 194 283 149 Historic low (10/2018) MW 10 (210-262) SSWD 28 Production 38.6153 -121.4200 370 222 254 116 Historic low (09/2010) MW 10 (210-262) SSWD 30 Production 38.6046 -121.4227 460 370 410 211 Historic low (11/2008) MW-05 (345-424) SSWD 32A Production 38.6145 -121.3504 355 254 355 145 Historic low (10/2015) MW-Churchill M (230-270) SSWD 33A Production 38.6412 -121.3704 320 198 318 131 Historic low (10/2013) MW 10 (210-262) SSWD 35 Production 38.6005 -121.3591 316 152 312 155 Historic low (10/2013) MW-11M (258-268) SSWD 40A Production 38.6305 -121.3978 780 270 742 200 Historic low (10/2009) MW-05 (345-424) SSWD 41 Production 38.6178 -121.4240 425 180 420 116 Historic low (09/2010) MW-05 (345-424); SSWD 28 SSWD 47 Production 38.5945 -121.3519 350 145 346 154 Historic low (05/2009) MW-11M (258-268); MW-11D
(332-365)
SSWD 55A Production 38.5873 -121.3584 368 182 358 153 Historic low (10/2013) MW-11M (258-268); MW-11D
(332-365)
SSWD 60 Production 38.6279 -121.3586 435 165 430 140 Historic low (10/2018) MW 10 (210-262) SSWD 65 Production 38.6362 -121.3751 347 187 342 131 Historic low (10/2013) MW 10 (210-262); SSWD 33A SSWD 66 Production 38.6249 -121.3623 398 170 393 157 Historic low (10/2017) MW 10 (210-262) SSWD 70 Production 38.5788 -121.4110 285 160 280 132 Historic low (10/2018) MW 12A (200-280); MW-4 (55-65) SSWD 71 Production 38.5841 -121.3534 425 165 415 114 Historic low (10/2018) SSWD 72 (320-875); MW-6 (62-
72)
SSWD 73 Production 38.5832 -121.3368 640 315 630 128 Historic low (10/2016) SSWD 72 (320-875) SSWD 74 Production 38.5823 -121.3382 645 195 635 129 Historic low (10/2012) SSWD 72 (320-875) MW-4 Monitoring 38.5841 -121.4185 65 55 65 47 SGA 2014 GMP Threshold N/A MW-05 Monitoring 38.6113 -121.4100 424 345 424 99 Historical low (10/2009) N/A MW-6 Monitoring 38.5828 -121.3385 72 62 72 50 SGA 2014 GMP Threshold N/A MW-10 Monitoring 38.6310 -121.3864 265 210 262 112 Historic low (10/2018) N/A MW-11M Monitoring 38.6038 -121.3882 278 258 268 94 Historic low (09/2010) N/A MW-11D Monitoring 38.6038 -121.3882 375 332 365 94 Historic low (09/2010) N/A MW-12A Monitoring 38.5947 -121.3985 285 200 280 68 Historic low (09/2010) N/A SSWD 72 Monitoring 38.5849 -121.3385 885 320 875 95 Historic low (10/2013) N/A SAC-091 Production 38.6115 -121.4786 344 170 324 76 Historic low (06/2020) SAC-092 (116-308) SAC-093 Production 38.6220 -121.4766 328 146 292 54 Historic low (10/2018) SAC-092 (116-308) SAC-112 Production 38.6072 -121.4425 330 250 330 86 Historic low (10/2018) SAC-157 (132-372) SAC-114 Production 38.6049 -121.4389 366 166 366 96 Historic low (10/2018) SAC-157 (132-372) SAC-120 Production 38.6207 -121.4426 440 233 420 103 Historic low (09/2018) SAC-092 (116-308) SAC-122 Production 38.6202 -121.4316 422 230 400 108 Historic low (03/2020) SAC-127 (161-401) SAC-123 Production 38.6256 -121.4670 305 143 265 75 Historic low (10/2018) SAC-092 (116-308) SAC-124 Production 38.6247 -121.4612 306 171 298 77 Historic low (10/2018) SAC-092 (116-308) SAC-126 Production 38.6283 -121.4349 432 188 410 118 Historic low (01/2017) SAC-127 (161-401) SAC-129 Production 38.6383 -121.4467 401 136 295 108 Historic low (07/2018) SAC-127 (161-401) SAC-131 Production 38.6399 -121.4274 280 150 270 128 Historic low (09/2018) SAC-127 (161-401) SAC-133 Production 38.6470 -121.4684 514 235 510 108 Historic low (11/2018) SAC-164 (222-625) SAC-137 Production 38.6296 -121.4198 410 80 245 127 Historic low (09/2018) SAC-127 (161-401) SAC-138 Production 38.6414 -121.4359 375 113 370 121 Historic low (09/2018) SAC-127 (161-401) SAC-139 Production 38.5966 -121.4582 255 90 250 74 Historic low (09/2018) SAC-157 (132-372) SAC-143 Production 38.6222 -121.4458 330 140 330 127 Historic low (04/2019) SAC-092 (116-308) SAC-153A Production 38.6543 -121.4468 626 260 616 130 Historic low (11/2017) SAC-164 (222-625) SAC-155 Production 38.6343 -121.4115 427 175 427 148 Historic low (07/2018) SAC-127 (161-401) SAC-156 Production 38.5994 -121.4452 380 190 275 112 Historic low (11/2019) SAC-157 (132-372) SAC-158 Production 38.5963 -121.4269 328 113 313 96 Historic low (09/2018) SAC-157 (132-372) SAC-092 Monitoring 38.6176 -121.4972 435 116 308 38 Historic low (04/1997) N/A SAC-127 Monitoring 38.6267 -121.4295 401 161 401 90 Historic low (04/1997) N/A SAC-157 Monitoring 38.5944 -121.4451 377 132 372 55 Historic low (04/1997) N/A SAC-164 Monitoring 38.6580 -121.4646 635 222 625 73 Historic low (07/2018) N/A W-041 Production 38.4192 -121.4186 256 176 236 150 Historic low (09/2009) W-074 (152-192) W-042 Production 38.4197 -121.4437 245 173 245 132 Historic low (12/2011) W-032 (234-390) W-043 Production 38.4187 -121.4377 252 122 232 130 Historic low (12/2011) W-032 (234-390); W-074 (152-
192)
W-047 Production 38.4254 -121.4299 250 108 218 110 Historic low (07/2011) W-074 (152-192) W-061 Production 38.4657 -121.3700 914 744 896 288 Historic low (12/2011) W-068 (842-906) W-064 Production 38.4601 -121.3562 920 780 920 280 Historic low (05/2016) W-068 (842-906) W-065 Production 38.4383 -121.3873 250 150 220 122 Historic low (01/2009) W-074 (152-192) W-067 Production 38.4563 -121.3533 1087 918 1072 210 Historic low (10/2016) W-068 (842-906) W-069 Production 38.4455 -121.3533 880 559 870 295 Historic low (05/2016) W-068 (842-906) W-078 Production 38.3904 -121.4153 1337 855 1300 275 Historic low (05/2016) W-130 (1050-1456) W-109 Production 38.3976 -121.4193 1368 1092 1329 260 Historic low (04/2016) W-130 (1050-1456) W-110 Production 38.3966 -121.4241 1350 1167 1298 231 Historic low (05/2016) W-130 (1050-1456) W-126 Production 38.4055 -121.4003 1440 995 1430 220 Historic low (07/2016) W-130 (1050-1456) W-129 Production 38.4036 -121.4030 1456 1074 1420 220 Historic low (07/2016) W-130 (1050-1456) W-032 Monitoring 38.4134 -121.4488 400 234 390 98 Historic low (09/2018) N/A W-068 Monitoring 38.4600 -121.3625 921 842 906 136 Historic low (08/2008) N/A W-074 Monitoring 38.4275 -121.3980 225 152 192 80 Historic low (02/2018) N/A W-130 Monitoring 38.4055 -121.4115 1493 1050 1456 98 Historic low (01/2019) N/A FOWD
Heather Production 38.6504 -121.2910 630 275 610 220 Historic low (09/2014) Winding Way (170-595) FOWD Town Production 38.6433 -121.2697 605 250 585 230 Historic low (06/2020) Winding Way (170-595) FOWD
Northridge Production 38.6596 -121.2555 475 308 470 323 Historic low (08/2017) FO-1596 (333-343) FOWD
Madison Production 38.6647 -121.2475 566 326 556 310 Historic low (08/2017) FO-1596 (333-343) CAR-Willow
Park Production 38.6049 -121.3427 271 221 269 159 Historic low (09/2005) MW-Churchill M (230-270) CAR-Garfield
Ave Production 38.6230 -121.3360 637 130 637 164 Historic low (08/2005) MW - Churchill S (130-150); MW-
Churchill D (490-510)
CAR-LaVista
Drive Production 38.6194 -121.3326 500 230 495 164 Historic low (07/2006) MW-Churchill M (230-270) MW-Winding
Way Monitoring 38.6451 -121.3066 600 170 595 175 Historic low (09/2017) N/A MW-Churchill
S Monitoring 38.6280 -121.3493 170 130 150 117 Historic low (09/2018) N/A MW-Churchill
M Monitoring 38.6280 -121.3493 290 230 270 118 Historic low (10/2018) N/A MW-Churchill
D Monitoring 38.6280 -121.3493 530 490 510 119 Historic low (09/2018) N/A FO-1596 Monitoring 38.6481 -121.2531 343 333 343 182 Historic low (04/2018) N/A GSW-
Dolecetto #6 Production 38.5999 -121.2996 405 152 405 130 Historic low (06/2013) Agnes (250-470) GSW-Mather
#18 Production 38.5743 -121.2936 560 363 533 186 Historic low (04/2008) Paseo #24 (436-510) GSW-S.

Bridge St 22A Production 38.6337 -121.2623 600 130 565 151 Historic low (03/2008) Park #17 (89-223); Coloma #20
(430-590)
GSW-S.

Bridge St 22B Production 38.6338 -121.2620 570 140 550 174 Historic low (04/2008) Park #17 (89-223); Coloma #20
(430-590)
GSW-Agnes
Circle #8 Monitoring 38.5977 -121.3111 470 250 470 117 Historic low (04/2008) N/A GSW-Paseo
#24 Monitoring 38.5891 -121.3116 512 436 510 115 Historic low (08/2018) N/A GSW-
Coloma #20 Monitoring 38.6175 -121.2654 610 430 590 153 Historic low (01/2014) N/A GSW-Park
#17 Monitoring 38.6353 -121.2595 310 89 223 115 Historic low (12/2015) N/A