DWR Presents Key Draft Groundwater Regulations and Solicits Public Comment

SACRAMENTO – (RealEstateRama) — Historic legislation enacted by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. last year empowers local agencies to bring groundwater basins into sustainable patterns of pumping and recharge. The Department of Water Resources (DWR) will hold three public meetings this week to present draft regulations that include how it will evaluate the development and implementation of Groundwater Sustainability Plans, alternatives, and coordination agreements by local Groundwater Sustainability Agencies. DWR continues to solicit public comment through April 1, 2016. By June 1, 2016, DWR is required to adopt these emergency regulations.

The schedule of meetings is as follows:

Monday, March 21, 2016
Visalia Convention Center,
303 E Acequia Ave
Visalia, CA 93291
4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Delhi Community Center
505 E Central Ave,
Santa Ana, CA 92707
1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Thursday, March 24, 2016
Statewide Webinar
1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Friday, March 25, 2016
Secretary of State Building
1500 11th St,
Sacramento, CA 95814
9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

For more information regarding California’s Groundwater Sustainability Plan Emergency Regulations
please visit: http://www.water.ca.gov/groundwater/sgm/gsp.cfm

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Contact: Lauren Hersh, DWR Public Affairs
(916) 653-2639 lauren.hersh (at) water.ca (dot) gov