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In September 2014, Governor Brown signed historic legislation requiring that California’s critical groundwater resources be sustainably managed by local agencies. The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) provides a framework for the sustainable management of groundwater supplies by local agencies.
SGMA mandated the formation of Groundwater Sustainability Agencies (GSAs) and requires the adoption of Groundwater Sustainability Plans (GSPs) for basins or sub-basins designated as medium or high priority by the CA Department of Water Resources. The regulations require GSPs to address groundwater overdraft and bring groundwater basins into balanced levels of pumping and recharge without causing significant and unreasonable undesirable results by the year 2040.
The Pleasant Valley Sub-basin was formed in 2016 as part of its compliance effort to meet California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) legislation enacted in 2014. The Department of Water Resources reclassified the sub-basin from a low to medium priority designation in November 2018. The GSA has until February 2022 to submit its Groundwater Management Plan (GSP) and has undertaken a series of steps to develop and meet the GSP submission deadline.
For additional information, please contact the Water and Natural Resources Division of the Department of Public Works and Planning at (559) 600-4292 or visit the Pleasant Valley GSA website:
https://sgma.pleasantvalleywaterdistrict.com/