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GOOD AFTERNOON, I'D LIKE TO CALL THE AUGUST 12TH MEETING OF THE MERCED SUBBASIN- GSA TO
[1. CALL TO ORDER/ROLL CALL]
ORDER, PLEASE CALL THE ROLL.AND I BELIEVE MR. UPTON IS ABSENT TODAY.
SO AT THIS POINT, YOU DO HAVE THE REQUISITE NUMBER FOR A QUORUM YES SIR.
ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. BEFORE WE GO INTO CLOSED SESSION, I'D LIKE TO.
DESIREE ARE THE FOLKS LET INTO THE MEETING? YES. OK, THANK YOU. AT THIS TIME, IF THERE'S ANY PUBLIC COMMENT BEFORE WE GO INTO CLOSED SESSION, I'LL TAKE IT. I SEE NONE IN THE ROOM.
IS THERE ON CLOSED SESSION? OK, WELL THEN ON ZOOM.
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WE'LL ADJOURNED TO CLOSED SESSION AND WE WILL FOR THOSE OF YOU WATCHING ON ZOOM WE WILL BE BACK AT TWO O'CLOCK.THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT, WELL, WELCOME BACK TO OUR MERCED SUBBASIN- GSA MEETING FOR AUGUST 12TH.
WE JUST LEFT CLOSED SESSION, AND I WOULD LIKE TO REPORT THAT STAFF WAS GIVEN DIRECTION.
AT THIS TIME. WE WOULD LIKE TO DO THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.
MR. SWENSON, WOULD YOU LIKE TO LEAD US IN THE PLEDGE? SALUTE. I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. THANK YOU FOR THAT.
AT THIS TIME, I'D LIKE TO TURN THE MICROPHONE OVER TO OUR SECRETARY, MARK HENDRICKSON, FOR AN UPDATE. THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN. JUST VERY, VERY BRIEFLY, JUST AS A BRIEF REMINDER AS WE HAVE FOR SEVERAL MONTHS NOW, THAT, AGAIN, DUE TO THE ONGOING COVID-19 CRISIS AND AS AUTHORIZED BY THE GOVERNOR'S EXECUTIVE ORDER N-29-20, THIS MEETING IS BEING BROADCAST VIA CONFERENCE CALL OF ZOOM.
IN ADDITION TO THE MEETINGS, PHYSICAL LOCATION HERE AT THE COUNTY'S ADMINISTRATION BUILDING. AGAIN, THIS BOARD HAS BEEN VERY CLEAR AND WANTS TO EXTEND EVERY OPPORTUNITY FOR THE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC TO PARTICIPATE, EITHER VIA WRITTEN COMMENT OR TO OBSERVE THIS MEETING AGAIN, EITHER IN PERSON OR ON CONFERENCE CALL.
JUST ONE QUICK REMINDER TO THE EXTENT THAT SOMEONE DOES WANT TO PARTICIPATE ONLINE, PLEASE USE THE RAISE YOUR HAND FEATURE.
AND WE DO HAVE STAFF THAT'S WATCHING FOR THAT.
AND WE'LL MAKE SURE THAT THE CHAIRMAN IS VERY WELL AWARE THAT YOU WISH TO MAKE COMMENT.
SO WITH THAT BEING SAID, MR. CHAIRMAN, YOU ARE READY TO PROCEED.
AT THIS TIME, WE WILL MOVE TO OUR PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD, PUBLIC OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK ON ANY MATTER OF PUBLIC INTEREST WITHIN THE BOARD'S JURISDICTION, INCLUDING ITEMS ON THE BOARD'S AGENDA. TESTIMONY IS LIMITED TO THREE MINUTES PER PERSON.
AND AT THIS TIME, I'LL OPEN PUBLIC COMMENT IF ANYBODY WOULD LIKE TO OPINE.
ARE YOU GOING OUT THERE, GINO? OH, IS THERE ANYBODY ON LINE THAT WOULD LIKE TO HAS THEIR HAND RAISED? OK, THANK YOU.
WELL, THEN WE WILL CLOSE PUBLIC COMMENT.
[5. APPROVAL OF MINUTES]
OUR NEXT ITEM IS APPROVAL OF MINUTES.HAVE YOU ALL HAD A CHANCE TO LOOK AT THE MINUTES? I HAVE AND I HAVE ONE COMMENT.
UNDER THE ITEM, UNDER THE FIVE YEAR OBJECTIVE RESOLUTION, AT THE END OF THAT NARRATIVE, IT TALKED ABOUT MRS. MCBRIDE COMMENTED THAT THE RESOLUTION HAD BEEN UPDATED TO REFLECT THE CHANGES THAT WERE DISCUSSED. WELL, ACTUALLY, EARLIER IN THE NARRATIVE, NONE OF THOSE CHANGES ARE LISTED.
SO IT SAYS BOARD MEMBER SWENSON COMMENTED HE WOULD LIKE TO MAKE SUGGESTED REVISIONS TO THE RESOLUTION. AND I THINK IT WOULD BE BEST IF THOSE CHANGES WERE ACTUALLY LISTED AS PART OF THE MINUTES. OK, LACEY.
SO IN THE MINUTES, THE LAST PARAGRAPH HAS ALL OF THE CHANGES LISTED THEY'RE ALL IN THAT LAST PARAGRAPH. AND SO, YOU KNOW, PAGE TWO OF THE RESOLUTION HAS BEEN REVISED AND THEN IT GOES ON TO SAY THE RESOLUTION READING AND THEN THEREFORE HAS BEEN CHANGED.
SO EVERYTHING IN THAT LAST PARAGRAPH IN THE MINUTES IS WHAT WAS CHANGED.
WHICH IS ON PAGE FIVE, THE BOTTOM OF PAGE FIVE.
PAGE 5 AND THEN ON TO PAGE SIX.
SO DID WE MISS YOUR POINT, ERIC? WELL, I GUESS JUST READING THROUGH IT, I WOULD AT LEAST MAKE SOME REFERENCE HERE UNDER
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THAT THIRD SENTENCE ON PAGE FOUR THAT THE REVISIONS ARE FOUND AT THE END OR SOMETHING.I MEAN, THAT'S JUST MY BELIEF.
OK. IT'S SO THEN AFTER BOARD MEMBER SWENSON COMMENTED THAT HE WOULD LIKE TO MAKE SUGGESTED REVISIONS TO THE RESOLUTION AND THEY ARE LISTED AT THE BOTTOM OF PAGE FIVE.
I MEAN, HOW DO WE DO THAT? I MIGHT. HELP ME. THE REVISIONS LISTED AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE FIVE ARE REVISIONS THAT THE ENTIRE BOARD AGREED TO AFTER DISCUSSION.
I COULDN'T SAY UNLESS I WENT BACK AND LISTENED TO THE MEETING IF THOSE REVISIONS THAT THE ENTIRE BOARD AGREED TO ARE THE EXACT REVISIONS THAT BOARD MEMBER SWENSON TALKED ABOUT ON WHEN, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT IT ON PAGE FOUR, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS A SIGNIFICANT DISCUSSION AFTER THAT.
SO, YOU KNOW, WE CAN PUT IN A SENTENCE THAT SAYS REVISIONS AGREED TO BY THE BOARD ARE LISTED, YOU KNOW, LATER.
I MEAN, SO PART OF IT, ERIC, IS THAT ANYBODY COULD SUGGEST STUFF AND THEN THE FULL BOARD HAS TO APPROVE IT.
SO IF WE LISTED YOUR POTENTIAL REVISIONS, BUT THEN SOME OF THEM WERE NOT ACCEPTED, THEN THAT WOULD ALSO BE CONFUSING TO PEOPLE AS WELL.
WELL, I DID BRING MY NOTES SO I CAN TELL YOU WHAT SUGGESTIONS I MADE.
SO YOU WANT YOUR ITEMS LISTED? IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE SAYING? YEAH.
OK, AND WHAT WERE THOSE ITEMS? A CHANGE FROM FIVE YEAR OBJECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION TO THE YEAR 2025 TO ADD ANNUAL CONSUMPTIVE USE AND TO DELETE THE SENTENCE, THE FIVE YEAR OBJECTIVE TARGET BEING APPROXIMATELY 10 PERCENT OF ANTICIPATED OVERALL REDUCTION.
THOSE WERE THE PRIMARY ONES THEN WE REPLACED LATER ON IN THE NARRATIVE WHERE IT ALSO SAID FIVE YEAR WITH 2025.
WELL, I MEAN, FOR MYSELF, I DON'T RECALL ALL THOSE THINGS WERE SAID, IF YOU WROTE THEM DOWN I'M SURE THEY WERE. BUT I DON'T SEE A PROBLEM WITH THE LAST PARAGRAPH.
IT DOES SUMMARIZE EVERYTHING WE WANTED TO CHANGE IN THE RESOLUTION THAT I RECALL.
OK, I JUST THOUGHT IT ADDED SOME CLARITY TO THE MINUTES.
MR. CHAIR I MOVE TO APPROVE AS WRITTEN.
ALL RIGHT, ANY OTHER COMMENT? OK, SEEING NONE, WE DON'T HAVE TO GO OUT TO PUBLIC COMMENT AGAIN, DO I? WE DID THAT ON THE BEGINNING OR SHOULD WE.
WE HISTORICALLY DO HERE? OK, WE'LL OPEN UP FOR PUBLIC COMMENT.
IS THERE ANYBODY ONLINE THAT HAS A RAISED HAND? ANYBODY IN THE ROOM WOULD LIKE TO MAKE PUBLIC COMMENT? OK, SEEING NONE WE WILL CLOSE PUBLIC COMMENT, BRING IT BACK TO THE SIAS.
YOU HAVE MINUTES THAT ARE PASSED.
SORRY ABOUT THAT. WE'LL MOVE TO ITEM SIX.
[6. MERCED GSP DATA GAPS PLAN]
MERCED GSP DATA GAP PLAN.SO DO WE HAVE WOODARD & CURRAN.
YES IT'S SAMANTHA SALVIA AND CHRIS HUGHES WILL PRESENT THIS ITEM.
AND I'M GOING TO STOP SHARING SO THEY CAN SHARE THE PRESENTATION.
ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. THANKS, LACEY.
GOOD AFTERNOON. MEMBERS OF THE BOARD AND MEMBERS OF THE ZOOM VIEWING PUBLIC.
I'M HERE. I'M SAMANTHA SALVIA AND I'M HERE WITH MY COLLEAGUE CHRIS HUGHES TO SHARE AN UPDATE FOR YOU ON THE DATA GAP PLAN THAT HAS BEEN PREPARED AS PART OF THE MERCED GSP.
I'M GOING TO GIVE A BRIEF INTRO AND THEN TURN THINGS OVER TO CHRIS SO HE CAN PROVIDE YOU WITH SOME MORE SPECIFIC INFORMATION ABOUT IT.
BUT TO SET THE STAGE, THIS IS A PLAN THAT WAS ABOUT A YEAR, YEAR AND A HALF AGO THE BASIN WAS SUBMITTED FOR GRANT FUNDING AND RECEIVED A GRANT TO DEVELOP THIS DATA GAPS PLAN.
AND A PORTION OF THE GRANT WAS ALSO TO HELP TO START FILL THESE DATA GAPS.
SO WE ARE WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON THIS WITH THE COORDINATION COMMITTEE, WITH THE STAKEHOLDER ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR SEVERAL MONTHS NOW TO COMPLETE THIS PLAN TO IDENTIFY AND PRIORITIZE DATA GAPS IN THE BASIN AND PROVIDE A ROAD MAP FOR THE BASIN TO START TO FILL THOSE DATA GAPS. AND ALSO A TOOL THAT CAN CONTINUE TO BE USED TO IDENTIFY AREAS OF
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THE BASIN THAT WOULD MOST BENEFIT FROM ADDITIONAL MONITORING BASED ON THE BASIN'S PRIORITIES. SO UNLESS THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS AT THIS POINT, I'M GOING TO GO AHEAD AND ASK CHRIS TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE MORE SPECIFICS ON THE PLAN.ANY QUESTIONS. OK, GO AHEAD, CHRIS.
HELLO EVERYBODY. SO I'M GOING TO WALK YOU THROUGH JUST A BRIEF BACKGROUND OF THE TOOL THAT IS SORT OF AT THE CENTER OF THE PLAN AND THEN WALK YOU THROUGH SOME OF THE RESULTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS THAT ARE COMING OUT OF THAT, AS WELL AS SOME OF THE REALLY NEXT STEPS AND ACTIONS FOR TAKING IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DATA GAPS PLAN.
SO THAT JUST AS AN FYI, THE PLAN IS ON THE MERCED GSP WEBSITE SO THAT ALL THE MATERIALS AND BACKUP DOCUMENTS AND MAPS AND A LOT OF THINGS, WE WILL BE SHOWING YOU TODAY, YOU CAN DOWNLOAD AND TAKE A LOOK AT IT IN MORE DETAIL.
BRIEFLY. THE DATA GAPS PLAN TOOL IS REALLY THREE PARTS.
I'LL WALK YOU THROUGH THEM. SO THE FIRST ONE IS UP ON THE TOP LEFT WHERE WE'RE HIGHLIGHTING WE'RE STARTING OFF BY HIGHLIGHTING AREAS OF UNCERTAINTY.
HERE'S WHERE WE USE REALLY THE RESULTS OF OBSERVED GROUNDWATER LEVELS TO TELL US WHERE THERE ARE SPATIAL GAPS IT'S BASED ON THE EXISTING MONITORING NETWORK.
AND THEN ALSO WHERE THERE ARE DISPARITIES BETWEEN MEASUREMENTS THAT ARE CLOSER TOGETHER AND MAY NOT BE SIMILAR TO EACH OTHER.
WE COMBINE THAT WITH THE RIGHT HAND SIDE, CONSIDERING OTHER IMPORTANT FACTORS FOR MONITORING SITE LOCATIONS.
HERE'S SOME EXAMPLES OF THEM IN LITTLE COLORED BOXES HERE.
WE REALLY WANT TO SITE WELLS WHERE THERE'S GOING TO BE MULTIPLE BENEFITS TO HAVING GROUNDWATER LEVEL MONITORING.
TAKES A LOT OF EFFORT TO SELECT AND VET WELLS OR TO POTENTIALLY TO INSTALL NEW WELLS.
SO WE MAY AS WELL GET MORE BANG FOR OUR BUCK.
SOME OF THOSE IMPORTANT FACTORS WE MIGHT WANT TO CONSIDER OUR DISTANCE TO STREAMS WHERE THEY MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN GROUNDWATER, SURFACE WATER INTERACTION, AREAS WHERE THERE MIGHT BE BENEFITS TO COLLECTING WATER QUALITY INFORMATION OR A SUBSIDENCE AREA.
DOWN AT THE BOTTOM RIGHT. YOU CAN SEE THERE'S A BOX CALLED EXISTING WELL TIERING RANKING.
THIS IS WHERE WE GET TO PLUG IN EXISTING WELLS THAT WE KNOW ARE OUT THERE.
THEY'VE BEEN THERE THEY ARE IN PRODUCTION OR THEY ARE MONITORING WELLS THAT AREN'T REALLY PART OF THE MONITORING NETWORK.
AND IF THERE'S WELLS THAT OVERLAP WITH THE AREAS OF UNCERTAINTY OR OTHER IMPORTANT FACTORS FOR LOCATING A MONITORING SITE, AND THAT'S A BIG WIN, WE WANT TO WEIGHT OUR INTEREST IN THAT AREA.
SO THE PLAN WAS UPDATED WITH INFORMATION FROM MERCED SUBBASIN- GSA MEMBERS.
WE TOOK WELLS PROVIDED BY MEMBERS AND PLUGGED THOSE LOCATIONS IN WHERE WE HAD ENOUGH INFORMATION TO WRAP THEM INTO THE PLAN.
SO THEY'RE KIND OF PART OF THAT ANALYSIS OF WHERE WE MIGHT SITE NEW MONITORING LOCATIONS.
WE THEN COMBINE THESE TWO PIECES OF THE TOP INTO A SPATIAL ANALYSIS TOOL TO GET RECOMMENDATIONS ON WHERE WE SHOULD LOCATE ADDITIONAL WELLS AGAIN USING EXISTING SITES OR POTENTIALLY INSTALLING NEW MONITORING WELLS.
AND THE TABLE, THE LITTLE ORANGE TABLE IN THE BOTTOM RIGHT JUST GIVES YOU A SENSE WE HAVE TO TELL THE TOOL. HOW MANY NEW WELLS SHOULD WE INSTALL? WE KIND OF KNOW MAYBE WE KNOW WHERE SOME OF THE LOCATIONS ARE, BUT HOW DENSE DO WE WANT THE WELLS TO BE? SO WE ARE AND WE DID AN ANALYSIS SEPARATELY FOR EACH OF THE PRINCIPAL AQUIFERS IN THE MERCED SUBBASIN- BELOW CORCORAN CLAY AND ABOVE CORCORAN CLAY OUTSIDE CORCORAN CLAY. YOU CAN SEE THE NUMBER OF NEW WELLS THAT ARE NEEDED TO MEET A DENSITY GOAL OF FOUR WELLS FOUR MONITORING WELLS PER ONE HUNDRED SQUARE MILES.
THERE ARE ALREADY SOME LOCATIONS IN THE SUBBASIN THAT HAVE MONITORING DENSITY OF EVEN HIGHER THAN FOUR WELLS PER HUNDRED SQUARE MILES.
BUT WE'RE TRYING TO FILL IN ALL THE AREAS AROUND THAT THAT ARE LOWER.
SO WALK YOU THROUGH A COUPLE OF THE RESULTS THAT WE'VE GOT HERE, EACH MAP, I'M GOING TO SHOW YOU ONE PER PRINCIPAL AQUIFER.
WHERE THERE ARE WARMER COLORS THOSE ARE AREAS THAT ARE MORE PREFERENTIAL FOR MONITORING.
SO THAT'S KIND OF THE TAN, MORE TAN AND RED COLORS YELLOW MAYBE.
THE COOLER COLORS LIKE GREEN AND BLUE HAVE RELATIVELY LOWER IMPORTANCE WHEN CONSIDERING MULTIPLE FACTORS.
AND THE BLACK AREAS SORT OF AND HERE IN THE BELOW CORCORAN AND ALONG THE EASTERN EDGE AND DOWN HERE KIND OF THIS BULBOUS AREA, THOSE ARE REMOVED FOR A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT REASONS, WHETHER THERE'S REALLY SHALLOW [INAUDIBLE] CLAY OR THERE'S EXISTING WELLS OR IT'S REALLY NEAR THE SUBBASIN- BOUNDARY.
WHAT'S IMPORTANT HERE AND I APOLOGIZE IF IT'S A LITTLE HARD TO SEE ON YOUR SCREEN ARE THE PURPLE DASHED CIRCLES LABELED ON THIS MAP, LIKE B ONE B TWO B THREE AND SO ON.
THESE ARE SHOWING THE GENERAL AREAS THAT WOULD BE USEFUL FOR SITING AND MONITORING WELL, THIS IS THE OUTPUT OF THAT DATA GAPS TOOL THAT WE'VE DEVELOPED.
SO FOR THE BELOW CORCORAN, I PUT HERE THAT THERE ARE SEVEN OUT OF NINE WELLS.
SO WE NEED TO WORK TO MEET THE DENSITY GOAL FOR EACH PRINCIPAL AQUIFER.
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WE WOULD NEED NINE ADDITIONAL WELLS IN THE BELOW CORCORAN, SEVEN OF THOSE SUGGESTED LOCATIONS, FALL WITHIN THE MERCED SUBBASIN- GSA BOUNDARY.THOSE WELLS ARE SOMEWHAT LOCATED THROUGHOUT AS YOU CAN SEE, THERE IS A STRONG PREFERENCE FOR SOME OF THE AREAS ALONG THE SOUTHERN EDGE DOWN HERE.
THAT'S DUE TO A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE PUTTING MONITORING WELLS, NEAR THE SUBBASIN- BOUNDARY SURFACE WATER AND INTO THE SUBSIDENCE AREA.
TRANSITIONING TO THE ABOVE CORCORAN CLAY.
WE NEED 13 ADDITIONAL WELLS TO MEET THE DENSITY REQUIREMENTS OR DENSITY GOAL.
EIGHT OF THOSE 13, AGAIN, ARE LOCATED IN MERCED SUBBASIN- GSA AREA AS PROPOSED NEW LOCATIONS. THERE ARE JUST SUCH A FEW EXISTING MONITORING WELLS, BUT THERE'S GENERALLY A LARGER NEED FOR WELLS THROUGHOUT THE ABOVE CORCORAN CLAY.
THE GOOD NEWS IS THERE IS SOME OVERLAP WITH THE WELLS THAT ARE PROPOSED OR NEEDED TO MEET DENSITY REQUIREMENTS FOR THE BELOW CORCORAN FOR INSTALLING A NEW WELL, IT'S RELATIVELY THERE'S SOME BENEFITS TO INSTALLING BOTH A DEEP NESTED WELL AND A SHALLOW NESTED WELL IN ONE LOCATION. SO YOU'RE SORT OF HITTING TWO BIRDS WITH ONE STONE AT SOME OF THESE ABOVE CORCORAN SITES BECAUSE THEY MAY CORRELATE WITH THE BELOW.
LASTLY, THE OUTSIDE CORCORAN CLAY.
NUMEROUS WELLS, THERE ARE NUMEROUS WELLS THAT ALREADY EXIST IN THIS KIND OF BLACK AREA HERE NEAR THE URBAN AREAS.
SO THERE ARE THERE JUST TEND TO BE HIGH ENOUGH DENSITY OF WELLS THAT WE DON'T NEED TO LOCATE THEM HERE. BUT THERE ARE SEVERAL SPOTS ON THE EASTERN AND NORTHERN CORNERS WHERE ADDITIONAL MONITORING WOULD BE BENEFICIAL.
AND DEPENDING ON HOW WHERE THE WELLS ACTUALLY GETS PLACED, IT'S AROUND THREE TO FOUR WELLS OUT OF THE SIX THAT WE PROPOSED THAT ARE LOCATED IN THE MERCED SUBBASIN- GSA BOUNDARY.
TO SUPPORT KIND OF THE NEXT STEPS WE'VE INCLUDED SOME MORE DETAILED MAPS.
THESE ARE SORT OF HIGH LEVEL OVERVIEW.
YOU CAN GET A SENSE OF REGIONALLY WHERE THESE WELLS PROPOSED WELL, LOCATIONS ARE AS A RESULT OF THE TOOL. BUT TO HELP SOME OF THE NEXT STEPS, WE'VE INCLUDED SOME DETAILED MAPS. AND HERE'S AN EXAMPLE, ONE WITH A REALLY EXTREME BLOWN UP EXAMPLE MAGNIFIED ON SCREEN HERE FOR THE OUTSIDE CORCORAN CLAY, I'M SHOWING IN THE PLANADA AREA.
YOU CAN SEE, THIS IS THE BOUNDARY OF THE PLANADA COMMUNITY.
THE PURPLE DASHED CIRCLE IS THAT WHAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT EARLIER PROPOSED MONITORING LOCATION SOMEWHERE IN THAT GENERAL REGION WOULD BE BENEFICIAL TO LOCATE A NEW MONITORING WELL, AND THE COLORED DOTS ARE WELLS FROM OUR TIERING TOOL WHERE WE KNOW THERE'S A WELL THAT'S OUT THERE. IT'S POSSIBLE SOME OF THOSE MAY BE OLDER WELLS THAT MAY BE INACTIVE.
THIS IS KIND OF THE NEXT STEP OF GETTING A LITTLE BIT MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THEM.
WE'VE DONE AN INITIAL SCREENING OF TRYING TO SORT THEM INTO HIGH QUALITY WELLS VERSUS POTENTIALLY WELLS WITH LESS HISTORICAL INFORMATION THAT AREN'T AS USEFUL.
FOR THIS EXAMPLE, FOR O3, WHICH IS ONE OF THE OUTSIDE CORCORAN WELLS.
WE NOTED THAT THERE IS A WELL HERE, DYLAN W.DW ONE, WHICH IS A WELL FROM THAT WAS PROVIDED TO US BY NIC MARCHINI.
IT'S A THREE HUNDRED FOOT DEEP WELL THAT WOULD POTENTIALLY IF IT MEETS SOME OF THE OTHER REQUIREMENTS FROM SGMA OR A MONITORING WELL THAT COULD BE A POTENTIAL CANDIDATE FOR MEETING THE DATA GAP IN THIS AREA.
SO AGAIN, APPENDIX B, I WOULD RECOMMEND YOU TAKE A LOOK AT THERE'S ONE MAP, ONE PDF MAP FOR EACH PRINCIPAL AQUIFER AND THE REALLY HIGH, HIGH, HIGH LEVEL OF RESOLUTION.
SO YOU CAN KIND OF ZOOM IN AND TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT THESE WELLS ARE AND SEE IF YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH ANY OF THESE AND START EVALUATING THEM FOR INCLUSION IN THE MONITORING NETWORK. SO OUR IMPLEMENTATION PLAN FOR THIS, THE NEXT STEPS ARE REALLY FOCUSED ON NUMBERS TWO, THREE AND FOUR, WE'VE DONE NUMBER ONE THAT'S RUNNING THE ANALYSIS TOOL AND I'VE SHOWED YOU THE OUTPUTS.
NUMBER TWO IS WHAT I WAS JUST SHOWING AN EXAMPLE OF IDENTIFYING EXISTING WELLS IN THE SUBBASIN- THAT COULD BE USED TO FILL DATA GAPS.
AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE WE WANT TO COORDINATE WITH LANDOWNERS ON, WELL, MONITORING ACCESS AND OBTAIN CONSTRUCTION INFORMATION TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN EVALUATE THOSE WELLS AND MAKE SURE THEY ARE APPROPRIATE FOR ADDING TO A MONITORING NETWORK AND MEET SGMA REQUIREMENTS.
WE WANT TO THEN TAKE NUMBER FIVE AND EVENTUALLY RERUN THE TOOL SAYING, OK, WE'VE ADDED, WE THINK WE'RE GOING TO ADD THESE ADDITIONAL WELLS.
WHERE ARE THE REMAINING GAPS? WHAT ARE THE AREAS WE WERE NOT ABLE TO FILL WITH EXISTING WELLS? AND THAT WILL LAUNCH US EVENTUALLY BACK TO NUMBER SIX, WHERE WE NEED TO INSTALL NEW MONITORING WELLS TO FILL ANY ADDITIONAL REMAINING DATA GAPS.
THERE IS FUNDING AS PART OF THE GRANT INSTALL ONE DEEP OR UP TO THREE SHALLOW WELLS.
AND THE PLAN PROVIDES SOME TOOLS TO KIND OF SELECT THE AREAS OF THE HIGHEST BENEFICIAL
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RESULTS, BECAUSE OFTEN THERE JUST WON'T BE ENOUGH FUNDING TO MEET EVERY SINGLE DATA GAP.BUT HOPEFULLY BETWEEN LOOKING AT EXISTING WELLS AND INSTALLATION OF ONE OR SEVERAL NEW MONITORING WELLS WE CAN HIT THE PLAN DOES NOT ENTIRELY FOCUS ON GROUNDWATER LEVELS.
THERE ARE SEVERAL OTHER SECTIONS AND WITH RECOMMENDATIONS AND SOME OF THE OTHER SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS AND OTHER AREAS RELEVANT TO MODELING, I'LL BRIEFLY GIVE YOU A SUMMARY OF WHAT THOSE LOOK LIKE.
THERE'S GENERALLY THERE BE A BENEFIT TO INCREASING MONITORING FREQUENCY.
THERE'S ALREADY SOME EXISTING EFFORTS GOING ON BY THE EASTERN SAN JOAQUIN WATER QUALITY COALITION AND THEIR GROUNDWATER QUALITY TREND MONITORING PROGRAM.
MANY ACRONYMS, THEY ARE WORKING.
THEY'VE IDENTIFIED MANY WELLS AND ARE WORKING WITH WELL OWNERS TO COLLECT SAMPLES.
BUT IF THERE BE A BENEFIT TO INCREASING THE TDS SAMPLING AT SOME OF THOSE EXISTING WELLS, AND WE THINK THAT THERE IS POTENTIALLY SOME GAPS IN THAT PROGRAM IN TERMS OF BELOW CORCORAN CLAY AND MAYBE SOME OF THE RURAL AND MORE DEEPER AREAS OUTSIDE OF CORCORAN CLAY.
WE'RE MEANT TO BE BENEFICIAL TO COLLECT WATER QUALITY SAMPLES AT THOSE WELLS FOR TDS IN THE AREA OF SUBSIDENCE, THERE IS A GENERAL DATA GAP OF UNDERSTANDING THE DEPTH AT WHICH SUBSIDENCE IS OCCURRING IN THE BASIN.
WE GENERALLY HAVE AN IDEA OF THE THE QUANTITY OF SUBSIDENCE OR THE MAGNITUDE OF SUBSIDENCE THAT IS OCCURRING BASED ON SOME OF THESE SURFACE MONITORING PROGRAMS THAT THE UNITED STATES BUREAU OF RECLAMATION IS PERFORMING.
BUT THAT DOESN'T GIVE US INFORMATION OF THE DEPTH AT WHICH SUBSIDENCE IS OCCURRING.
SO SOME BENEFITS TO HELP FILL THAT GAP WOULD BE CONTACTING DRILLERS AND WELL OWNERS TO LOOK AT THE DEPTH OF WHICH THEY'RE EXPERIENCING CASING FAILURES.
AND ANOTHER DIRECT MONITORING OPTION WOULD BE CONSIDERING THE INSTALLATION OF EXTENSOMETERS. THEY ARE EQUIPMENT THAT ARE SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED TO MEASURE THE DEPTH AT WHICH COMPACTION IS OCCURRING, THOUGH THEY ARE EXPENSIVE AND THERE PROBABLY WILL NEED SOME COORDINATION WITH OTHER SURROUNDING BASINS TO INSTALL THOSE AND WORK ON A JOINT FUNDING APPLICATION TO INSTALL THOSE.
INTERCONNECTED SURFACE WATERS.
GENERALLY, THE GROUNDWATER LEVEL MONITORING NETWORK INCLUDED SEVERAL COMPONENTS THAT LOOKED AT THE BENEFITS OR A WEIGHTED, THE BENEFITS OF MONITORING AND ADDITIONAL MONITORING LOCATIONS NEAR GROUNDWATER DEPENDENT ECOSYSTEMS AND SURFACE WATERS.
BUT THERE'S GENERALLY WE WANT TO EXPAND THE MONITORING NETWORK, INCORPORATE SOME NEW DATA FROM THE SAN JOAQUIN RIVER RESTORATION PROGRAM, AND ALSO WORK CLOSELY WITH SURROUNDING ADJACENT GSA'S AND SUBBASIN'S TO COORDINATE DATA COLLECTION ON EITHER SIDE OF THE SUBBASIN- BOUNDARIES. AND THEN LASTLY, IN TERMS OF MODEL AND CLIMATE, THERE'S A DATA GAP SURROUNDING CLIMATE DATA AND CONSIDERATION AS RECOMMENDED FOR INSTALLATION OF A SECOND CIMIS STATION IN THE SUBBASIN AND TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION WHERE THAT IS LACKING AT A CURRENTLY INSTALLED CIMIS STATION.
I'D BE HAPPY TO TAKE ANY QUESTIONS.
THANK YOU FOR THAT INFORMATION.
WHERE IS THE CURRENT CIMIS STATION AT AND WHERE DO YOU PROPOSE? WHERE DID YOU ALREADY FIND A SPOT YOU THINK YOU'D LIKE THE SECOND ONE.
I DON'T KNOW, OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD WHERE THAT STATION IS.
BUT THE PLAN PROVIDES SOME OF THE REQUIREMENTS THAT DWR PUBLISHES FOR LOCATING A CIMIS STATION.
SOME OF THE NEXT STEPS THAT ARE PROBABLY NEEDED WOULD BE CONSIDERING WIND SPEED AND SOME OTHER LANDOWNER AVAILABILITY ANALYSIS.
I BELIEVE SOME WE HEARD IN PART OF OUR STAKEHOLDER AND COORDINATION COMMITTEE MEETINGS THAT THERE ARE SOME RECOMMENDATIONS FROM SOME MEMBERS THAT WOULD PROBABLY BE A GOOD PLACE TO START FOR LOCATING THE STATION.
YEAH, THE PROBLEM IS THE CURRENT CIMIS STATION, THEY CHANGED THE CROPPING AROUND IT AND IT'S NO LONGER COMPLIANT.
IT'S GOT TO BE A PERMANENT PASTURE.
SO I ACTUALLY FOUND TWO COMPLIANT PARCELS.
AND ONE OF THOSE TWO PARCELS, HASHAM AT MID IS MOVING FORWARD TO DWR TO PLACE A NEW CIMIS STATION. AND IT'S LOCATED NEAR THE MERCED AIRPORT.
IT'S ABOUT 30 ACRES OF PERMANENT PASTURE AND THE RECOMMENDATION IS A 20 ACRE MINIMUM.
SO IT LOOKS LIKE IT MEETS AND THE LAND OWNER IS WILLING TO LET US PUT THAT STATION IN, IT APPEARS. AWESOME.
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I CAN ANSWER YOUR QUESTION THAT THE CURRENT CIMIS STATION IS WITHIN MERCED IRRIGATION DISTRICTS JURISDICTION.IT'S EAST OF THE CITY OF MERCED AND JUST SOUTH OF BEAR CREEK.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FROM THE BOARD, MR. GALLO? I HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT THE DISTANCE TO STREAMS AND THE MONITORING THE YOU SAID MONITORING THE GROUNDWATER AND SURFACE WATER EXTRACTIONS.
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? WHAT IS SURFACE WATER EXTRACTION MEAN.
YEAH, ONE OF THE SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS THAT THE GSP COVERS AND SGMA REQUIRES JUST TO INCLUDE CONSIDERATION OF IS UNDERSTANDING THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN THE GROUNDWATER SYSTEM AND THE SURFACE WATER SYSTEM IN THE SUBBASIN.
SO THOSE CAN BE INTERCONNECTED AND HAVING AN UNDERSTANDING OF HOW GROUNDWATER LEVELS REACT WHEN THEIR IS STREAM WATER FLOWING CAN BE VERY IMPORTANT.
AND OFTENTIMES THERE MAY NOT BE GROUNDWATER LEVEL MONITORING STATIONS VERY CLOSE OR LOCATED NEAR A STREAM GAUGE STATION TO KIND OF CORRELATE THOSE TO BUILD A BETTER SCIENTIFIC UNDERSTANDING THAT CAN HELP MODELING INPUTS.
CHRIS CAN I JUMP IN FOR A SECOND? PLEASE. I JUST WANT TO BE CLEAR, BECAUSE I THINK THE BOARD MEMBER MAYBE USED THE WORD EXTRACTION AND THE WORD WE WERE USING WAS INTERACTION.
SO WE'RE NOT PROPOSING TO MONITOR SURFACE WATER EXTRACTIONS.
DID I MISS HEAR? YEAH, I MISHEARD.
OK, I THOUGHT HE SAID EXTRACTION.
[LAUGHTER] SURFACE GROUNDWATER INTERACTION.
SO BUT. UNDERSTANDING HOW GROUNDWATER LEVELS RESPOND TO OR ARE INFLUENCED BY SURFACE WATER. BUT I HEAR THE TERM THAT YOU'RE GOING TO DO MODELING, IS THAT RIGHT, OF THE INTERACTION BETWEEN STREAMS AND GROUNDWATER? OR DID I MISHEAR THAT AS WELL.
IF YOU HAVE A CONCISE ANSWER OUT OF THE TOP OF YOUR HEAD? I MEAN, THE CONCISE ANSWER IS THAT WE ALREADY HAVE AN EXISTING MODEL THAT INCORPORATES SURFACE WATER AND GROUNDWATER FOR THE BASIN.
RIGHT NOW, WE'RE NOT SCOPED TO DO ADDITIONAL MODELING, BUT THE WELLS WOULD PROVIDE BETTER INFORMATION ABOUT HOW THE GROUNDWATER AND SURFACE WATER INTERACT.
SO THE MODEL IS FROM THE STATE DWR OR, WHO.
NO, IT IS A MODEL, THE MERCED REMODELED THIS, CHRIS, YOU MAY JUMP IN OR FACT CHECK ME ON THIS. THE MERCED REMODEL IS ONE THAT THIS BASIN DEVELOPED, AND IT'S WHAT ALL OF THE GSP IS BASED ON. IT WAS ORIGINALLY DEVELOPED DURING THE MAGPIE DAYS AND UPDATED, CALIBRATED, VALIDATED. AND IT'S THE MODEL THAT WAS USED TO ESTABLISH MINIMUM THRESHOLDS AND MEASURABLE OBJECTIVES FOR THE BASIN.
AND IT'S THE MODEL WE RERUN FOR THE ANNUAL REPORTS EVERY YEAR TO LOOK AT CHANGES AND TO COMPARE TO MONITOR CHANGES WITH THE GROUND WATER ELEVATION.
BUT NOW WE'RE GOING TO BE MONITORING OTHER WELLS THAT ARE NEAR STREAMS AND USING THE SAME MODELING. IS THAT WHAT I'M HEARING? I'M NOT QUITE SURE I UNDERSTAND THE QUESTION.
COULD YOU REPHRASE IT FOR ME? I'M NOT QUITE SURE I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE ASKING.
SAMANTHA, LET ME JUST TALK TO THE MIKE HERE FOR A SECOND.
I THINK WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO DO, MIKE, IS THEY'RE TRYING TO REFINE THE CURRENT MODEL, THE MODEL MATCHES.
THEY CALIBRATE THE MODEL TO MATCH WELL DATA.
SO THEY WANT TO GET ADDITIONAL WELL DATA NEAR STREAM CHANNELS OR NEAR RIVERS TO HELP CALIBRATE THE MODEL MORE ACCURATELY.
THE MODEL ESTIMATES PORTIONS OF RIVERS AND STREAMS WHERE WATER IS GAINING WHAT THEY CALL GAINING REACHES AND LOSING REACHES.
THE LOSING REACHES ARE WHERE THE WATER IS GOING FROM THE RIVER INTO THE GROUNDWATER.
OK, SO THEY'RE LOOKING AT PUTTING MORE MONITORING WELLS NEAR WHERE STREAM CHANNELS ARE AND THEY'LL JUST IMPROVE THE CALIBRATION OF THE MODEL AND REFINE THE GAINING AND LEAVING REACHES OF THE STREAMS, CREEKS AND RIVERS.
DOES THAT ANSWER YOUR QUESTION? SO THAT GAINING FROM THE CREEKS STREAMS AND RIVERS, THAT'S ALL PART OF THE CURRENT BASIN, IS THAT RIGHT? RIGHT. THEY RAN THE MODEL TO CREATE THE GSP.
SO YOU HAVE AREAS WHERE THERE'S WATER ACTUALLY FLOWING IN THE SUBSURFACE THAT FLOWS INTO, LET'S SAY, THE MERCED RIVER.
THERE'S OTHER SECTIONS OF THE MERCED RIVER.
THERE'S SO MUCH PUMPING THAT WATER IS ACTUALLY FLOWING FROM THE RIVER DOWN INTO THE
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AQUIFERS AND IS BEING PUMPED OUT.SO THE MODEL ESTIMATES WHERE THOSE REACHES ARE OF GAINING OR LOSING AND THEY'LL USE THESE ADDITIONAL MONITORING WELLS TO HELP REFINE THE CALIBRATION OF THE MODEL.
OK, SO WITH THAT, THEY MAY FIND IMPROVEMENTS TO THE BASIN.
WELL, THEY MAY FIND THAT THERE'S EITHER GREATER LOSS OR LESSER LOSS FROM THOSE SURFACE WATER CHANNELS.
THANK YOU. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FROM BOARD MEMBERS? NO. ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I WILL MOVE ON TO ITEM SEVEN, TECHNICAL SUPPORT FOR A BASIN WIDE MONITOR.
YOU'RE WELCOME. WERE THERE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT ON ZOOM? NO RAISED HANDS. OK.
PUBLIC COMMENT IN THE HOUSE. YOU GOT TO COME UP TO THE MICROPHONE, THOUGH.
SORRY. IN THIS NEXT PHASE OF ANALYSIS, THEY'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT TRYING TO IDENTIFY EXISTING WELLS THAT COULD POTENTIALLY USE AS MONITORING WELLS.
CAN CURRENT WELLS THAT ARE BEING USED FOR GROUNDWATER EXTRACTION, FOR IRRIGATION COULD.
ARE THOSE ABLE TO BE USED FOR MONITORING WELLS? YES, POTENTIALLY.
YOU KNOW, DEPENDING ON THE MAKEUP OF THE WELL, IF EVERYTHING ELSE IS GOOD, THEY KNOW THE WELL CONSTRUCTION THEY CAN GET AROUND THE FACT THAT IT'S GOING TO BE USED FOR GROUNDWATER EXTRACTION BECAUSE THAT OPENS UP A LOT MORE WELLS.
SURE. I BELIEVE SO. BUT LET ME REFER TO STAFF IF THERE'S ANY DIFFERENCE IN THAT.
I WOULD JUST SAY THE MERCED SUBBASIN- GSP CALLS FOR MONTHLY MONITORING.
AND SO SOMETIMES THAT IS DISRUPTIVE TO IRRIGATION WELLS WHEN THEY WANT TO RUN THEM ALL THE TIME BECAUSE THERE IS A PERIOD OF TIME WHERE WE'RE GOING TO WANT THEM TURNED OFF IN ORDER TO MONITOR THEM.
OK, SO THEN BECAUSE I KNOW SOME OF THE GSA'S HAVE GOTTEN GRANTS TO DRILL ADDITIONAL WELLS THAT ARE ONLY USED FOR MONITORING.
BUT I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE SUGGESTING HERE IS, YOU KNOW, GETTING A GRANT TO DRILL NEW WELLS OR IF WE CAN FIND EXISTING WELLS THAT WE'RE ABLE TO USE.
SO THERE IS FUNDING IN THE PROPOSITION SIXTY EIGHT GRANT THAT THE MERCED SUBBASIN- RECEIVED THAT WAS USED FOR THIS DATA GAPS PLAN.
THERE'S ADDITIONAL FUNDING FOR SOME MONITORING.
IT'S EITHER TO PUT IN EITHER SHALLOW WELLS OR SOME DEEPER WELLS, OR WE COULD EVEN USE EXISTING WELLS AND PROVIDE THE YOU KNOW, IF WE NEED TO VIDEO LOG THEM TO KNOW WHAT THE CONSTRUCTION DETAILS ARE OF THEM.
SO THERE IS SOME FUNDING FOR THAT.
THERE'S NOT ENOUGH IN THAT GRANT AWARD THAT THE BASIN RECEIVED TO COVER ALL OF THE WELLS THAT WE NEED. OK.
AND SO I WOULD SAY THE CALL TO ACTION FOR THIS BOARD AND FOR GROWERS AND STAKEHOLDERS IN THE MERCED SUBBASIN- GSA IS DO YOU KNOW OF ANY WELLS THAT MIGHT BE APPROPRIATE OR IN THESE AREAS THAT WE COULD EVEN LOOK INTO TO SEE IF THEY WOULD FIT INTO THE MONITORING NETWORK? ARE THERE WELLS OUT THERE THAT EXIST THAT WE CAN ADD INTO THE MONITORING NETWORK AND THEN WHEN WE EXHAUST ALL OF THOSE OPTIONS, DO WE NEED TO GET SOME FUNDING OR THE GSA PAY FOR IT THEMSELVES TO PUT IN MONITORING WELLS WHERE THEY NEED TO BE INSTALLED? AND THEN WHO WHO'S THE CONTACT ON THOSE WELLS? SO SAY IF SOMEBODY WANTED TO CALL AND SAY, HEY, I'VE GOT A WELL THAT MAY WORK, WHO DO THEY CONNECT WITH YOU OR SOMEBODY ELSE.
IN THE MERCED SUBBASIN- GSA, THEY CAN CONNECT WITH ME THERE.
WE DO HAVE A FORUM ON THE WEBSITE AND SAM CAN HELP ME OUT WITH THIS.
THERE'S A FORUM ON MERCEDSGMA.ORG.
IF PEOPLE HAVE WELLS THAT THEY WANT TO PRESENT FOR MONITORING, IF THEY HAVE INFORMATION TO PRESENT. IS THAT RIGHT, SAM? THAT IS CORRECT. SO THERE'S A FORM ONLINE AS WELL.
RIGHT? WELL, YEAH. SO BUT BUT YOU KNOW, SO BUT KNOWING PEOPLE.
RIGHT. NOBODY IS GOING TO JUST JUMP ONLINE AND SAY, HEY, I'D LIKE TO HAVE MY WELL MONITORED, YOU KNOW, GENERALLY.
KNOW, HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH LACEY OR GET, YOU KNOW, HAVE THEM SEND IN A FORM AND WE'LL TAKE A LOOK AT THEM.
YOU KNOW, BECAUSE I WORK WITH SO MANY OF THE LANDOWNERS THAT I COULD REVIEW THE DETAILED MAPS WHERE THOSE PURPLE CIRCLES ARE LIKE THE ONE HE SHOWED AND SEE WHERE THOSE ARE LOCATED. AND THEN FROM THERE, IF ANY OF THEM ARE IN MY AGENCIES, THEN I CAN GO AND WORK WITH THE FARMERS. ALL RIGHT.
STAFF OR LACEY I THINK IT WOULD BE GOOD IF YOU GUYS IN THOSE PURPLE AREAS OR WOODARD & CURRAN YOU GUYS GET PARCELS AND REACH OUT TO LIKE BRAD OR WHATEVER AGENCIES.
AND THERE WOULD BE THE FASTEST WAY OF SEEING THOSE MONITOR WELLS WORK.
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BE AS LIKE CHAIRMAN PAREIRA SAID, I DON'T THINK FARMERS WOULD BE LOOKING ON THE INTERNET SAYING ON THEIR WEBSITE, I WANT TO FILL OUT THIS APPLICATION FOR THAT.YEAH, BUT IF YOU GUYS CAN GIVE REACH OUT TO THE DIFFERENT AGENCIES IN OUR GSA FOR THE CIRCLES THAT ARE IN THERE, THESE PARCELS ARE IN THERE AND WE CAN START REACHING OUT AS LOCAL AGENCIES TO THOSE LANDOWNERS.
THAT'S A GOOD IDEA. WE'LL TAKE SOME OF THOSE ZOOMED IN MAPS THAT CHRIS JUST SPOKE ABOUT AND IDENTIFY THE LANDOWNER SURROUNDING THOSE CIRCLES.
AND IF THERE'S ANY MEMBER AGENCIES, WE CAN SEND THEM TO YOU GUYS AS BOARD MEMBERS REPRESENTING THOSE AGENCIES.
ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU. OK, NOW WE'RE ON TO ITEM SEVEN, TECHNICAL SUPPORT FOR BASIN WIDE
[7. TECHNICAL SUPPORT FOR BASIN WIDE MONITORING]
MONITORING. GIVE ME JUST A SECOND, I'M.WELL, I DON'T KNOW WHY I CAN'T FIND THAT, BUT THANK YOU.
GREAT. SO THIS IS A FOLLOW UP ITEM FROM ACTION THAT THE GSA BOARD TOOK BACK IN APRIL TO APPROVE THE ENGINEERING FIRM QK TO CONDUCT SPRING MONITORING FOR WATER LEVELS IN THE MERCED SUBBASIN-. SO FOLLOWING AN RFQ PROCESS AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS YEAR, THE MERCED BASIN COORDINATION COMMITTEE RECOMMENDED THE FIRM QK TO PROVIDE BASIN WIDE TECHNICAL SUPPORT FOR THE MONITORING NETWORKS IN THE GSP.
AT THAT TIME, AND THIS WAS BACK IN THE BEGINNING OF THIS YEAR, THE COORDINATION COMMITTEE RECOMMENDED AND THIS GSA AUTHORIZED A SMALLER CONTRACT FOR IMMEDIATE MONITORING AND THE COORDINATION COMMITTEE DIRECTED THE GSAS TO WORK WITH QK ON DEVELOPING A LARGER CONTRACT FOR MONITORING SERVICES.
SO THIS ITEM REQUESTS AUTHORIZATION FOR MIUGSA TO ENTER INTO THE LARGER CONTRACT WITH QK ON BEHALF OF ALL THREE MERCED GSAS IN A NOT TO EXCEED AMOUNT OF ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY SIX THOUSAND FIFTY DOLLARS FOR THE TERM OF ONE YEAR.
SO MIUGSA WAS AUTHORIZED BY ALL THE GSAS TO ENTER INTO THE SMALLER CONTRACT WITH QK.
SO THIS WOULD BE AN AMENDMENT TO EXTEND THE CONTRACT FOR THESE TASKS THAT ARE LISTED ON THE SCREEN HERE. SO THIS WORK WILL COMPLETE THE TASK OF MONTHLY WELL MONITORING.
SO, AS I MENTIONED BEFORE, MONTHLY MONITORING IS REQUIRED IN THE GSP.
PRIOR TO THIS, MONITORING WAS ONLY CONDUCTED IN SPRING AND FALL.
TASKS INCLUDE A QUALITY ASSURANCE AND QUALITY CONTROL OF COLLECTED DATA, MONTHLY TREND REPORTING OF THE MONITORING DATA, OPTI DATA FORMATTING.
SO OPTI IS YOUR DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR THE GSP AND SO THAT'S FORMATTING ALL OF THE DATA AND PUTTING IT INTO OPTI.
ALSO A SGMA DATA UPLOAD AS REQUIRED BY DWR.
SO DWR DOES REQUIRE THOSE FALL AND SPRING MONITORING EVENTS TO BE UPLOADED TO THE SGMA PORTAL.
MONITORING WELL MAINTENANCE FOR WELLS THAT ARE ALREADY INSTRUMENTED WITH MONITORING EQUIPMENT. SO THERE ARE ABOUT 50-52 WELLS IN THE MONITORING NETWORK AND SEVEN OF THOSE ALREADY HAVE MONITORING EQUIPMENT.
AND SO THAT MAINTENANCE WOULD HAPPEN TWO TIMES A YEAR.
AND THEN THERE'S ALSO MAINTENANCE OF THE CIMIS STATION.
WE ALREADY TALKED ABOUT HOW THE CURRENT CIMIS STATION, IT'S NOT IDEAL.
AND SO THERE COULD BE A NEW CIMIS STATION IN THE BASIN FILLING THAT DATA GAP OF ADDING ANOTHER. THIS CONTRACT IS FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF THE CURRENT STATION THAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW. IF THERE WAS ONE IN THE FUTURE, THAT WOULD HAVE TO BE INCLUDED.
SO THE TOTAL AMOUNTS FOR EACH OF THESE TASKS ARE IN THE TABLE BEFORE YOU AND THE WORK WILL BE CHARGED BY A TIME AND MATERIALS BASIS.
THE GSAS WILL SPLIT THIS COST ACCORDING TO THE COORDINATION AGREEMENT, AND THE MERCED SUBBASIN- GSAS PORTION WILL BE FIFTY EIGHT PERCENT OR APPROXIMATELY SEVENTY NINE THOUSAND DOLLARS IF THE ENTIRE CONTRACT IS SPENT.
IN THE FISCAL YEAR 21 22 BUDGET.
YOU DID INCLUDE FUNDING FOR MONITORING SERVICES AT A SLIGHTLY LOWER LEVEL AT FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS. BUT THERE IS ENOUGH ROOM IN THE BUDGET TO COVER THIS ENTIRE AMOUNT SHOULD THE ENTIRE CONTRACT BE SPENT DURING THE COURSE OF THE YEAR.
AND SO THE COORDINATION COMMITTEE HAS RECOMMENDED THIS.
THEY APPROVED IT AND RECOMMENDED IT, AND NOW IT'S FOR ACTION BY THE THREE GSAS TO AUTHORIZE MIUGSA TO ENTER INTO THIS CONTRACT.
OK. ANY COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS FROM THE BOARD? OK, SEEING NONE. IS THERE ANY RAISED HANDS ON ZOOM FOR PUBLIC COMMENT?
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NO. ANY PUBLIC COMMENT HERE? OK, BRING IT BACK TO THE BOARD.IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE CONTRACT? I'LL MAKE THAT MOTION MR. CHAIR.
OK, BEEN MOVED BY MARCHINI, SECONDED BY GALLO.
ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? ALL RIGHT. PLEASE CALL THE ROLL.
AYE. MR. SWENSON. AYE. MR. MARCHINI.
AYE. YOUR ITEM PASSES. THANK YOU.
OK, NOW WE'LL MOVE TO ITEM EIGHT.
[8. TECHNICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE REPORT]
THE TECHNICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE REPORT.BRAD, ARE YOU PROVIDING THAT REPORT? OK.
ALL RIGHT, WE THE TECHNICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE HAD OUR LAST MEETING ON JULY 29TH, THE FIRST TOPIC OF DISCUSSION WAS A PRESENTATION BY LACEY ON KIND OF THE CURRENT STATUS OF THE DOMESTIC WELL, NOT NECESSARILY MITIGATION, BUT OF APPLICATIONS FOR NEW WELLS BECAUSE OF DEWATERING WITH THE DROUGHT.
AND SO SHE REPORTED THAT THERE WERE 14 NEW WELL REPLACEMENTS IN THE COUNTY AS OF JULY 20TH. SO IT'S PROBABLY DO YOU HAVE THE MORE CURRENT NUMBER NOW.
GSA. SO I THINK THE MAJORITY OF THEM WERE AROUND THE WHITTEN AREA.
I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE MAJORITY, BUT MORE THAN OTHERS.
YEAH, THAT 14 IS IN THE MERCED SUBBASIN-.
THREE ARE IN THE MERCED SUBBASIN- GSA, THE REST ARE IN THE OTHER GSAS OK.
SHE ALSO SAID THAT TANK WATER IS BEING PROVIDED TO FOLKS BY SELF-HELP.
SO THE MAJOR THE MAIN TOPIC OF DISCUSSION AT THE TAC MEETING WAS ON THE SUBJECT TITLE WAS LAND REPURPOSING STRATEGIES, AND THAT WAS THE MAJORITY OF IT.
BUT WE ALSO TALKED ABOUT POTENTIAL GROUNDWATER ALLOCATIONS.
SO BASICALLY STRATEGIES FOR DEMAND MANAGEMENT.
WE REVIEWED THE ESTIMATED OVERDRAFT IN THE SUB BASIN, YOU KNOW, ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY TWO THOUSAND ACRE FEET OF OVERDRAFT.
WHEN YOU COUNT THE FACT THAT THERE'S ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY THOUSAND IRRIGATED ACRES, THAT YOU JUST ASSUME FOUR ACRE FOOT PER ACRE, YOU KNOW, THAT EQUALS THIRTY THREE THOUSAND ACRES OF THAT NEED TO REDUCE THEIR DEMAND SIGNIFICANTLY.
SO IN TERMS OF THE STRATEGIES FOR LAND REPURPOSING, WE LOOKED AT SOME OF THE DIFFERENT MULTI BENEFIT STRATEGIES THAT DWR IS SUGGESTING.
OBVIOUSLY, NUMBER ONE IS TO REDUCE THE GROUNDWATER USE, BUT OTHER KEY FACTORS ARE HABITAT RESTORATION, MAINTAINING OR ESTABLISHING HABITAT CORRIDORS OR RECREATIONAL SPACES, BUILDING WILDLIFE FRIENDLY RECHARGE AREAS AND LOCATING THESE AREAS NEAR DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES.
WE REVIEWED THE I THINK THE SAME CORRIDOR HAS BEEN REVIEWED IN THIS MEETING.
I CALL IT THE SANDY MUSH HABITAT CORRIDOR, OLD VISION OF FISH AND GAME TO REESTABLISH THE [INAUDIBLE] FROM THE EAST SIDE OF THE VALLEY ALONG THIS CORRIDOR THERE, THERE'S A LOT OF HIGHLY PRODUCTIVE FARM GROUND IN THAT CORRIDOR.
SO HOW TO PRIORITIZE NOT JUST THAT CORRIDOR, BUT LOTS OF THE AREAS THAT WOULD BE CONSIDERED FOR REPURPOSING, YOU KNOW, RANKING THE PRIORITIZING THE DIFFERENT CRITERIA IS GOING TO BE SIGNIFICANT. I THINK THE BOARD'S GOING TO REALLY HAVE TO WEIGH ON THAT, YOU KNOW, TO TARGET MORE OF THE MARGINAL GROUND, PERMANENT TREES ON THE EAST SIDE THAT HAVE LIMITED GROUNDWATER AVAILABILITY ALREADY, OR DO YOU GO FOR AREAS WHERE THEY'RE TRIPLE CROPPING, HAVE VERY HIGH CROP DEMANDS? OBVIOUSLY, ALL THESE HAVE ECONOMIC IMPACTS ON TAX SPACE FOR THE COUNTY.
AND ANOTHER TOPIC THAT WAS DISCUSSED IN DEPTH WAS HOW TO INCENTIVIZE LANDOWNERS.
IS IT GOING TO BE BENEFICIAL TO DO ONE YEAR DEALS, THREE YEAR DEALS PERMANENT? WHAT KIND OF GRANT MONEY IS AVAILABLE, IF ESPECIALLY WITH NO ONE REALLY HAS EXPERIENCE ON
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CALL, WAS WOULD GRANT FUNDING BE ELIGIBLE FOR SHORT TERM RETIREMENT AT LEAST MYSELF AND THE OTHER PEOPLE ON THE CALL WE'VE SEEN GRANT MONEY COME IN FOR CONSERVATION.YOU KNOW, THEY WANT TO SEE THE LAND [INAUDIBLE] AND RETURNED BACK TO THE NATIVE STATE.
ANYTHING ELSE? YEAH, I HAVE A QUESTION.
WHEN YOU'VE TALKED ABOUT THE WILDLIFE CORRIDORS, WHAT WAS KIND OF THE GENERAL THOUGHTS OR PROS OR CONS OF FROM THE COMMITTEE ON THAT IDEA? I THINK IT WAS WELL RECEIVED, ESPECIALLY IN ITS POTENTIAL ABILITY TO ATTRACT GRANT FUNDING. WE KNOW THE AGENCIES HAVE ALREADY, YOU KNOW, HAVE A PREFERENCE FOR THAT CORRIDOR, SO. I'M AWARE OF, I DON'T KNOW, THREE OR FOUR DIFFERENT CONSERVATION BANKS THAT HAVE LIKE VERNAL POOL MITIGATION OR LONG SANDY MUSH FROM MY UC MERCED DAYS, WE WORKED ON THIS CORRIDOR AS WELL.
WE ACTUALLY, UC MERCED HAD TO MITIGATE FOR ITS IMPACTS TO [INAUDIBLE] BY BUILDING KIT FOX BRIDGE OUT ON THE LE GRAND CANAL AS PART OF KEEPING THE CORRIDOR ESTABLISHED.
OK, WELL, I WON'T GET INTO THAT.
YEAH, I MEAN, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THAT IN THE DEMAND OF REDUCTION COMMITTEE, SO I WAS JUST CURIOUS TO KNOW.
BIG TOPIC. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR.
OH YES. DON'T LEAVE BECAUSE I WANT YOU TO REINFORCE THIS.
WHAT IF HE DOESN'T LIKE WHAT YOU'RE SAYING? IT'S MORE REINFORCING THAT WAS A TOPIC THAT WAS DISCUSSED AND THAT WAS WITH THE LAND REPURPOSING TO THE POINT OF THE GRANT FUNDING MIGHT REQUIRE IN PERPETUITY THE TAC COMMITTEE SEEMED TO SAY CREATE LOTS OF OPTIONS, DON'T LOCK IN ON JUST ONE, GIVE OPTIONS FOR LIKE THREE YEAR TERMS, MAYBE TEN YEAR TERMS, MAYBE PERMANENT, SO THAT NOT TO JUST SAY DESIGN ONE THING.
IS THAT CONSISTENT? DEFINITELY. YOU KNOW, IT'S VERY EXPLORATORY AT THIS POINT TO TRY TO SEE WHAT KIND OF THINGS COULD STICK. I MEAN, ONE OF THE TOP ONE OF THE THINGS I BROUGHT UP, IF WE DO TOO MANY SHORT TERM DEALS, YOU KNOW, EVERY YEAR, YOU HAVE TO REPLACE THE EXPIRED DEAL, PLUS ADD MORE SO THE NUMBER OF TRANSACTIONS WILL GET MUCH MORE.
THANK YOU. OK, COORDINATION COMMITTEE UPDATE BY LACEY MCBRIDE.
[9. COORDINATION COMMITTEE UPDATE]
WELL, AND YOUR MEMBERS.YEAH I'LL GIVE A QUICK SUMMARY AND THEN ALLOW FOR THE COORDINATION COMMITTEE MEMBERS TO ADD ANYTHING IF THEY HAVE ANYTHING.
SO THE QUARTERLY MEETING FOR THE COORDINATION COMMITTEE WAS HELD ON MONDAY, JULY 26TH.
THE COORDINATION COMMITTEE TOOK ACTION TO RECOMMEND THE GSA APPROVE THE MONITORING SUPPORT CONTRACT WITH QK, WHICH YOU APPROVED EARLIER.
THEY RECEIVED UPDATES ON THE DATA GAPS PLAN AND A DECISION MAKING SUPPORT TOOL.
BOTH OF THESE ITEMS ARE FUNDED BY THE PROPOSITION SIXTY EIGHT SUSTAINABLE GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT PLANNING GRANT, AND YOU SHOULD BE HEARING MORE ABOUT THE DECISION MAKING SUPPORT TOOL IN THE FUTURE.
THAT WAS THE FIRST TIME THE COORDINATION COMMITTEE REALLY HEARD ABOUT THAT.
THE COMMITTEE RECEIVED AN UPDATE ON THE DISCUSSION ON THE MINIMUM THRESHOLDS IN AREAS LACKING HISTORICAL MONITORING DATA SO THAT THE GSAS ARE WORKING TOGETHER TO MAKE PROGRESS ON DEVELOPING A METHODOLOGY TO DETERMINE THRESHOLDS FOR AREAS THAT ARE NOT ELIGIBLE FOR THE METHODOLOGY IN THE GSP.
SO ALL THE GSAS WHEN YOU ADOPTED THE GSP, YOU ADOPTED A METHODOLOGY FOR DETERMINING MINIMUM THRESHOLDS.
AND IT'S BASED ON THE DOMESTIC WELLS WITHIN A TWO MILE RADIUS OF THE MONITORING SITE.
BUT SOME OF THESE NEW WELLS THAT WERE IDENTIFIED IN AREAS IN THE DATA GAPS PLAN THAT YOU JUST HEARD ABOUT MAY NOT HAVE A DOMESTIC WELL WITHIN TWO MILES TO BASE THE MINIMUM THRESHOLD OFF OF.
THE BACKUP FOR THAT DOMESTIC WELL WITHIN TWO MILES WAS ALSO 2015 DATA.
AND SO FOR THE CURRENT MONITORING NETWORK, SOME OF THOSE WELLS DO HAVE 2015 DATA.
BUT WHEN YOU PUT IN NEW MONITORING WELLS, IF YOU DON'T HAVE A DOMESTIC WELL NEARBY AND YOU DON'T HAVE 2015 LEVELS, THEN YOU'RE NOT ABLE TO USE THE METHODOLOGY THAT'S IN THE GSP TO DETERMINE THE MINIMUM THRESHOLD.
SO THIS IS A CONVERSATION BETWEEN THE GSAS TO AND WOODARD & CURRAN IS HELPING FACILITATE IT TO COME UP WITH A METHODOLOGY.
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AND PROGRESS IS BEING MADE, BUT THERE'S REALLY NOTHING TO PRESENT FOR CONSIDERATION YET.ON THE ALLOCATION FRAMEWORK UPDATE, THE COMMITTEE DID HEAR A REPRESENTATIVE FROM ANOTHER GSA MENTIONED THAT THEY WILL BE SENDING A LIST OF COMMENTS ON THE FIVE YEAR TARGETS FOR FUTURE DISCUSSION. SO THOSE ALLOCATION FRAMEWORK DISCUSSIONS ARE CONTINUING AND THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE A SOME COMMENTS THAT THEY'RE GOING TO BE SENDING IN.
AND THEN IF THE COORDINATION COMMITTEE MEMBERS WHO ATTENDED HAVE ANYTHING IN ADDITION TO ADD.
I BELIEVE. I'M NOT SURE IF GEORGE PARK ATTENDED, I THOUGHT HE DID, BUT I'M NOW SECOND GUESSING MYSELF, BUT HE'S ON THE PHONE AS WELL.
IT WAS AN INTERESTING MEETING.
I JUST WANT TO GIVE A FEW STATEMENTS AND QUESTIONS THAT WERE RAISED BY HISHAM [INAUDIBLE] FROM MIUGSA.
HISHAM MADE THE STATEMENT THAT HE DOES NOT WANT TO WHOLLY DEPEND ON SATELLITE ET DATA FOR ESTIMATION OF GROUNDWATER PUMPING.
HE DIDN'T NECESSARILY ELABORATE WHAT HE DID WANT TO DO, BUT HE DID SAY THAT HE DIDN'T FEEL COMFORTABLE WHOLLY BASING THAT ON THE SATELLITE DATA.
ONLY HE DID ASK WHAT THE BASELINE WAS GOING TO BE FOR THE 15000 ACRE YEAR REDUCTION THAT THE BOARD ADOPTED, THE MERCED SUBBASIN- BOARD ADOPTED.
AND WE TALKED AROUND THAT A LITTLE BIT, BUT DIDN'T NECESSARILY DIRECTLY ANSWER THE QUESTION OF WHAT THE BASELINE WOULD BE.
HE ALSO ASKED ABOUT WHAT AMOUNTS OF GROUNDWATER EXTRACTION WETLANDS WERE USING AND WHETHER THOSE WERE INCLUDED IN THE CALCULATIONS THAT WE WERE MAKING.
SO THOSE WERE SOME OF THE COMMENTS THAT I THOUGHT WERE SIGNIFICANT THAT WERE MADE.
BUT FIFTEEN THOUSAND ACRE FEET DOESN'T NECESSARILY NEED A BASELINE.
I MEAN, IF THE NUMBERS 200,000 YOU ARE REDUCING SOME 15,000 ACRE FEET OR IF IT'S 50,000, YOU'RE REDUCING 15,000 ACRE FEET.
WHY WOULD THE BASELINE MATTER? WELL, GREG YOUNG WITH THE ADOPTION MEETING A MONTH AGO TALKED ABOUT SOME DIFFERENT APPROACHES THAT COULD BE TAKEN TO CALCULATE THE 15000 ACRE FEET.
I DON'T THINK WE'VE NECESSARILY STATED WHAT OUR APPROACH FOR CALCULATION IS GOING TO BE.
OK, SO I THINK REALLY WHAT HE'S SAYING IS, HOW ARE YOU GOING TO MEASURE THAT REDUCTION IS WHAT HE'S REALLY ASKING.
YEAH. AND I DON'T THINK WE'VE FORMALIZED THAT YET.
GOTCHA. BUT IT'S A GOOD QUESTION, THOUGH.
OKAY, MIKE, WERE YOU THERE ANY COMMENT? OK, ALL RIGHT. OK.
AND THEN IS THERE A RAISED HAND ON LINE? NO. OK, ALL RIGHT.
SO I KNOW IS THERE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS ITEM? OK, I'LL BRING IT BACK.
ALL RIGHT. AND THEN NEXT IS THE INTERBASIN COORDINATION UPDATE, LACEY MCBRIDE.
[10. INTERBASIN COORDINATION UPDATE]
SO THE REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE MERCED CHOWCHILLA MADERA AND DELTA MENDOTA GSA'S MET AGAIN FOR THEIR FOURTH REGIONAL INTERBASIN COORDINATION MEETING ON FRIDAY, AUGUST 6TH.THIS MEETING FOCUSED REALLY ON, I'D SAY, TWO MAIN AREAS, CREATING A FOCUS AREA AND THEN TALKING ABOUT WATER BUDGETS.
AND SO THE FOUR BASINS AGREED TO DETERMINE A SUBSIDENCE FOCUS AREA MAP.
AND SO THE MAP THAT YOU SEE ON THE SCREEN, THE OUTLINE IN BLUE, WAS THE PORTION OF THE CHOWCHILLA BASIN AND THE MERCED SUBBASIN- THAT WAS ORIGINALLY PROPOSED TO BE THE FOCUS AREA BY THE CHOWCHILLA BASIN REPRESENTATIVES? THE MERCED PORTION OF THE MAP WAS DISCUSSED AND AN EDIT WAS SUGGESTED BY THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE MERCED SUBBASIN- GSA, MIUGSA LONE TREE MUTUAL WATER COMPANY AND CLAYTON WATER DISTRICT, WHO ARE ALL OF THE IMPACTED AGENCIES IN THAT AREA.
SO YOU'LL SEE THE SLIGHT MODIFICATION INCREASES THE FOCUS AREA IN THE MERCED SUBBASIN- TO INCLUDE A SMALL PORTION OF MIDS EL NIDO AREA AND THEN A PORTION OF LONE TREE MUTUAL WATER COMPANY. AND SO THE NEW MAP MOVES THE SUBSIDENCE.
THIS IT REALLY MOVES THE FOCUS FROM THE FOUR BASINS INTO THE MERCED AND CHOWCHILLA SUB BASIN FOR THE CONTINUING CONVERSATIONS OF THESE INTERBASIN MEETINGS, THE MERCED AND CHOWCHILLA BASINS PRESENTED WATER BUDGETS FOR THEIR PORTION OF THE SUBSIDENCE FOCUS AREA.
THE WATER BUDGETS WERE NOT AN APPLES TO APPLES COMPARISON.
SO THE NEXT STEP IS GOING TO INCLUDE UPDATING THE MERCED'S WATER BUDGET TO ONLY INCLUDE VERTICAL INPUTS AND OUTPUTS.
SO REMOVING ANY BASIN BOUNDARY INPUTS AND STREAM INTERACTION IN THE WATER BUDGET IN ORDER TO COMPARE THE CHOWCHILLA WATER BUDGET AND THE MERCED WATER BUDGET.
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AND DOMINIC AMADOR WITH WOODARD & CURRAN WAS ALSO AT THIS MEETING HELPING WITH THE WATER BUDGET CONVERSATION.A PORTION OF THIS FOCUS AREA IS IN THE COLUMBIA CANAL COMPANY.
AND SO THERE WAS A REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE EXCHANGE CONTRACTORS WHO GAVE A VERBAL REPORT OF THE WATER BUDGET FOR THE COLUMBIA CANAL COMPANY.
AND ESSENTIALLY THEY BRING IN 50000 ACRE FEET OF SURFACE WATER AND THEIR AVERAGE CONSUMPTIVE USE IS ABOUT FORTY FIVE THOUSAND ACRE FEET A YEAR.
AND SO THEY CONSIDERED IT PRETTY WELL IN BALANCE.
THE CHOWCHILLA BASIN DID INCLUDE A PROJECT LIST IN THEIR SLIDE PRESENTATION, WHICH HAS BEEN SHARED WITH THE BOARD, THEY'VE INCLUDED THIS PROJECT LIST BEFORE.
THE MERCED SUBBASIN- DOES HAVE A PROJECT LIST, BUT THE TIME DIDN'T ALLOW FOR THE MERCED SUBBASIN- TO KIND OF DIVE INTO THEIR PROJECTS A LOT.
MOST OF THE TIME, I WOULD SAY, WAS SPENT ON THE WATER BUDGETS.
SO THE NEXT STEPS FOR THESE MEETINGS ARE FOR THE MERCED SUBBASIN- TO REFINE THE WATER BUDGETS. SO ITS APPROACH IS THE SAME AS THE CHOWCHILLA.
THERE'S ALSO GOING TO BE SOME UPDATING OF THIS MAP, AND I ANTICIPATE THAT NEXT MEETINGS, IN ADDITION TO TALKING ABOUT WATER BUDGETS, ARE GOING TO START TALKING ABOUT MORE ABOUT PROJECTS. THE WHOLE IDEA BEHIND THIS IS IDENTIFY A FOCUS AREA, IDENTIFY REALLY THE THE KIND OF HOLE THAT WE'RE TRYING TO FILL AND THEN THE PROJECTS THAT ARE GOING TO FILL THAT HOLE. AND SO THAT'S THE IDEA FOR THE NEXT FEW MEETINGS AND THE NEXT MEETING IS SCHEDULED FOR SEPTEMBER 1ST.
GEORGE PARK WAS LISTENING IN ON THAT MEETING AND ERIC SWENSON LISTENING IN ON THAT MEETING AS WELL. LACEY ON THE GREEN LINE, WHICH IS KIND OF THE MAYBE THE EXPANDED BOUNDARY. YES. WHAT ROAD IS THAT AT THE TOP? ON THE NORTH SIDE, DO YOU KNOW.
ON THE WEST, IT GOES UP THE MIDDLE OF THE BYPASS TO EL NIDO ROAD, WHICH I BELIEVE TURNS INTO NEWHALL ROAD, AND THEN IT CUTS DOWN THAT SOUTHERN ROAD.
I CAN'T REMEMBER EXACTLY WHAT ROAD THAT IS THOUGH.
IT'S JUST NORTH OF WASHINGTON ROAD.
AND THEN YOU'RE ON THE WEST IS THE BYPASS AND THEN THE EAST, THAT'S PROBABLY ARBOR OR ORCHARD ROAD OR MAYBE EVEN SCHULTZ.
BUT YEAH, IT'S A LITTLE FURTHER DOWN.
BUT ON AND LACEY A QUESTION OFF THE GREEN AND EVEN OFF THE ORIGINAL ONE.
YOU MENTIONED THE DIFFERENT DISTRICTS THERE, BUT SANDY MUSH MUTAL WATER CO COMPANY HAS GROUND IN THERE TOO.
WE CAN STAY UPDATED ON THAT, ESPECIALLY IN THE NEW GREEN LINE THAT WE GOT LAND IN THERE.
YOU'RE RIGHT. THE ONLY DISTRICTS THAT WERE PLACED ON THIS MAP WERE THE ACTUAL AGENCIES.
BUT ARE THE MID CLAYTON AND LONE TREE.
BUT YOU'RE RIGHT, SANDY MUSH DOES HAVE SOME PORTIONS THAT ARE LOOKING AT THE MAP RIGHT NOW YOU'D BE LOOKING AT WHITE AREA, BUT IT'S NOT AT SANDY MUSH.
YEAH, THAT AREA BETWEEN MID AND LONE TREE HAS GOT SOME SANDY MUSH GROUND AND THEN RIGHT OFF OF 152 ON THE SOUTH THERE'S SANDY MUSH GROUND TOO.
OK, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS.
IS THERE ANY RAISED HANDS ON ZOOM.
ANY PUBLIC COMMENT IN THE ROOM.
ALL RIGHT, WE'LL MOVE TO THE NEXT ITEM, WHICH IS STAFF REPORTS.
IS THERE ANYTHING YOU HAVEN'T UPDATED US ON, LACEY.
OH REALLY. SO NO STAFF REPORT.
BOARD MEMBERS. ANY OF YOU WANT TO REPORT OUT? NOPE. OK, OUR NEXT SPECIAL MEETING IS SEPTEMBER 16TH, AND THAT IS TWO O'CLOCK.
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RIGHT, OK.NO. OK, WELL THEN WE WILL ADJOURN OUR MEETING.
WELL, THANK YOU. THIS WAS A GREAT MEETING, STAFF.
* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.