MGA kicked off its Basin GSP planning effort with four workshops to introduce the public and Groundwater Sustainability Plan Advisory Committee members on groundwater planning and management under the SGMA.
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Orientation Session 1: Groundwater 101 and SGMA – A Primer for the Community (October 5, 2017)
Objectives:
- Understanding fundamental hydrogeologic terms and concepts needed for Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) and groundwater modeling
- Understanding the background, purpose, and basics of developing a Groundwater Sustainability Plan (GSP) under SGMA
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Orientation Session 2: The State of the Basin (October 25, 2017)
Objectives:
- What the Santa Cruz Mid-County Groundwater Basin looks like
- Understanding of historic and current Basin conditions
- How the Basin has been managed
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Orientation Session 3: Sustainability (November 13, 2017)
Objectives:
- Understand the parts of a Groundwater Sustainability Plan
- Understand how sustainability is defined in SGMA
- Understand the process for developing our sustainability definition
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Orientation Session 4: Groundwater Modeling (December 7, 2017)
Objectives:
- Provide introduction to groundwater models
- Describe how groundwater model will be used for GSP
- Describe model of the Mid-County Basin
- Outline plans for simulating future groundwater management in the Mid-County Basin
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