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REPORT - APPROVAL OF THE JOINT EXERCISE OF POWERS AGREEMENT CREATING THE SANTA ROSA PLAIN GROUNDWATER SUSTAINABILITY AGENCY
BACKGROUND: The Santa Rosa Plain groundwater sub-basin covers an area of approximately 80,000 acres and the majority of the City of Santa Rosa overlies this sub-basin. The 2014 Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) provides a framework for sustainable management of groundwater supplies by local agencies and requires local agencies with land use, water supply or water management authorities to form one or more Groundwater Sustainability Agencies (GSA) by mid-2017. In Sonoma County three groundwater basins, the Santa Rosa Plain, Petaluma Valley, and Sonoma Valley basins, are required to comply with SGMA.
In the Santa Rosa Plain sub-basin, staff of Santa Rosa Water along with staff from the other GSA-eligible entities within the sub-basin have been meeting since 2015 to discuss the development of a GSA for the sub-basin through a Joint Exercise of Powers A...
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