GSP Revision Workshop

2101 East Earhart Avenue,Stockton CA 95206

30 August, 2022

Description

The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) was passed in 2014 and requires formations of Groundwater Sustainability Agencies (GSAs) to develop Groundwater Sustainability Plans (GSPs) to provide a roadmap on how groundwater basins will achieve sustainability by 2040. In the critically over drafted Eastern San Joaquin Groundwater Basin, 16 GSAs came together to form the Eastern San Joaquin Groundwater Authority (GWA) and develop the Eastern San Joaquin GSP. The GSP was submitted to the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) in January 2020 and DWR comments were received in January 2022, finding that the plan was incomplete and identifying two primary deficiencies and recommending corrective actions. The GWA worked to resolve the deficiencies and resubmitted the Revised GSP in July 2022. The Revised GSP is now in a 60-day DWR public review period which will close the end of September. This workshop is intended to review the DWR comments, GWA responses and the Revised GSP. The target audience are GWA, stakeholders and the public.