DATE: October 23, 2018
TO: Board of Supervisors
SUBMITTED BY: Steven E. White, Director
Department of Public Works and Planning
SUBJECT: Fresno County Management Areas A and B Groundwater Sustainability Agencies
RECOMMENDED ACTION(S):
TITLE
Designate Supervisor Buddy Mendes as Representative, Supervisor Brian Pacheco as First Alternate Representative; and either Bernard Jimenez, Assistant Director of Public Works and Planning; Glenn Allen, Division Manager of the Water and Natural Resources Division; or Augustine Ramirez, Senior Engineer of the Water and Natural Resources Division, as the second Alternate Representative to represent the County of Fresno, for Fresno County Management Areas A and B, on the groundwater sustainability agency Coordination Committee for the Delta-Mendota Groundwater Subbasin.
REPORT
Approval of the recommended action will designate Supervisor Mendes and Supervisor Pacheco as the representative and first alternate, and a representative from the Department of Public Works and Planning as a second alternate to represent the County of Fresno, for Fresno County Management Areas A and B, on the Delta-Mendota Subbasin Coordination Committee. The Coordination Committee will coordinate groundwater sustainability agencies within the subbasin to move towards development and implementation of six Groundwater Sustainability Plans (GSPs), within the Delta-Mendota Subbasin, as required by the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), approved by California Legislature in 2014. This item pertains to locations in District 1.
ALTERNATIVE ACTION(S):
Your Board may choose not to approve the recommended action; however, it would likely result in delay of the preparation of the State Water Resources Control Board (State) required GSP by the January 31, 2020 deadline. If the GSP is not submitted by the deadline, intervention from the State could occur, which could result in the State managing local groundwater resources in the Delta-Mendot...
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