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Wyandotte Creek Su Subbasin in Publi lic Meetin ing Ju July ly 24, , 2018 Sou outhside Orovil ille le Com Community Ce Center Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) Implementation Presentation by: Tania Carlone Senior

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Wyandotte Creek Su Subbasin in Publi lic Meetin ing

Ju July ly 24, , 2018 Sou

  • uthside Orovil

ille le Com Community Ce Center Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) Implementation

Presentation by: Tania Carlone Senior Associate Consensus Building Institute (CBI)

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Meeti ting Overview

  • Welcoming Remarks- Paul Gosselin, Butte County
  • Agenda Overview & Introductions
  • Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA)

Background

  • Wyandotte Creek Governance Proposal
  • Public Input
  • Next Steps
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SGMA Back ckground

  • SGMA is a package of three bills (AB

1739, SB 1168, SB 1319)

  • Local control is a hallmark of SGMA
  • Sustainability must be achieved

within 20 years

  • Requirement to manage

groundwater under a Groundwater Sustainability Plan (GSP)

  • 127 groundwater basins statewide

must comply Sustainability Defined The management and use of groundwater in a manner that can be maintained during the planning and implementation horizon (50 years) without causing undesirable results.

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SGMA Back ckground

Bu Butte e County and Adja jacent t Gro roundwater Ba Basins

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SGMA Back ckground

Wyandotte Cre reek Su Subbasin in

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SGMA Back ckground

Roles les and Res esponsibil ilit ities

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SGMA Back ckground

Gro roundwater Su Sustain inabili lity Agen ency (G (GSA) Eligib ligibili lity

  • Any agency with water supply, water management or land

use responsibilities

  • Single local public agency or combination of local agencies

can form a GSA using a Joint Powers Agreement (JPA) or other legal agreement

  • Only public agencies can become or form a GSA but other

stakeholders can participate through a legal agreement with participating agencies.

  • GSA(s) must develop and implement a GSP to meet the

locally defined sustainability goal and to engage stakeholders.

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Sustainable Groundwater Management

(20 years from 2022)

Development and Adoption

  • f

Groundwater Sustainability Plans (GSPs)

(2017 to Jan 2022)

Early Implementing

  • f GSPs

thru Water Budgets & Outcome Based Metrics

(Jan 2022)

GSA Formation and Coordination

(Oct 2014 through July 2017)

Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3 Phase 4

SGMA Implementation Phases

SGMA Background

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SGMA Back ckground

Achi chievin ing Su Sustainabil ilit ity and Avoiding Undes esirable e Res esult lts

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  • 1. Administrative Information

– §354.4. General Information – §354.6. Agency Information – §354.8. Description of Plan Area – §354.10. Notice & Communication

  • 2. Basin Setting

– §354.14. Hydrogeologic Conceptual Model – §354.16. Groundwater Conditions – §354.18. Water Budget – §354.20. Management Areas

  • 3. Sustainable Management Criteria

– §354.24. Sustainability Goal – §354.26. Undesirable Results – §354.28. Minimum Thresholds – §354.30. Measurable Objectives

  • 4. Monitoring Networks

– §354.34. Monitoring Network – §354.36. Representative Monitoring – §354.38. Assessment & Improvement – §354.40. Reporting Monitoring Data to the Department

  • 5. Projects and Management Actions

– §354.44. Projects & Management Actions

SGMA Background

GSP Contents

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SGMA Back ckground

Q &A

Questions?

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Wyandotte Creek Subbasin Governance Proposal

Curr rrent GSAs in in Wyandotte Cre reek

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Wyandotte Creek Subbasin Governance Proposal

Community Fee eedback

“Governance” – the organization and decision making rules for the three GSAs to prepare and implement one GSP What we heard on May 3rd

  • Account for differences in hydrogeology
  • Give non-agricultural areas more of a voice

We are presenting a governance structure based on your comments

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Wyandotte Creek Subbasin Governance Proposal

Agen ency Purp rpose

  • Create a new agency through a Joint Powers Authority (JPA)
  • The JPA would become the exclusive, single GSA for the entire

Wyandotte Creek subbasin

  • The purpose of the JPA is to develop, adopt, and implement a

GSP for the Basin and to involve the public and area stakeholders in developing and implementing the GSP

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Wyandotte Creek Subbasin Governance Proposal

Agen ency Bo Board of f Dir Directors rs

  • Create a new agency through a Joint Powers Authority
  • 5 seats on the JPA Board of Directors (each seat will have an

alternate)

  • 3 Agencies (Butte County, City of Oroville, Thermalito Water

and Sewer District)

  • 2 Stakeholder seats (1 agricultural seat, 1 rural

residential/domestic well owner)

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Wyandotte Creek Subbasin Governance Proposal

Agen ency Bo Board Member Eligi ligibili lity

  • Each public agency will appoint one representative
  • Public agency directors must be elected officials on the public

agency’s governing body (i.e., a member of the Butte County Board of Supervisors, city council member of the City of Oroville, member of the board of directors of Thermalito Water and Sewer District)

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Wyandotte Creek Subbasin Governance Proposal

Agri ricultural l St Stakeholder er Bo Board rd Mem ember Eligib ligibilit ity

  • One agricultural stakeholder seat and one alternate
  • Must own or lease property in active commercial agricultural
  • peration overlying the subbasin OR be an employee of a

commercial agricultural operation overlying the subbasin

  • Cannot be party to any pending litigation against the JPA or

any of its member public agencies (Butte County, City of Oroville, Thermalito Water and Sewer District)

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Wyandotte Creek Subbasin Governance Proposal

Do Domestic Well ell User er St Stakeh ehold lder Bo Board Mem ember Eligib ligibili lity

  • One domestic well user stakeholder seat and one

alternate

  • Own or lease residential property overlying the subbasin

that is the stakeholder’s primary residence

  • Must extract groundwater from the subbasin for

domestic use

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Wyandotte Creek Subbasin Governance Proposal

Appointment & Rem emoval of f St Stakeholder er Bo Board rd Mem embers

  • Stakeholder Board Members and alternates will be appointed

by the JPA Board through an open application process

  • Stakeholder Board Members may only be removed from the

JPA Board of Directors if they fail to attend three consecutive meetings or no longer meet the criteria

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Wyandotte Creek Subbasin Governance Proposal

De Decision-makin ing

  • Each Board Member shall have one vote
  • For weighty decisions, there is a four-fifths supermajority

voting requirement. Example topics:

  • GSP adoption or modification
  • Assessment, charges, fees
  • Regulations or ordinances
  • Adoption of annual budget
  • Selection or removal of Advisory Committee members
  • Others, as stipulated in legal agreement
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Wyandotte Creek Subbasin Governance Proposal

St Stakehold lder r Advi visory ry Committee

  • Represents diverse stakeholder interests
  • Provides input and recommendations to the JPA Board on

GSP development and implementation

  • Subject to Ralph M. Brown Act
  • Appointed by the JPA Board via an open application process
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Wyandotte Creek Subbasin Governance Proposal

St Stakehold lder r Advi visory ry Committee Composit ition

  • South Feather Water and Power (1)
  • California Water Service- Oroville (1)
  • Tribal Representative (1+)
  • At-large agricultural water users (3)
  • At-large domestic well users (2)
  • At-large environmental (1)
  • At-large business association (1)

The JPA Board of Directors may appoint other groundwater user representatives.

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Wyandotte Creek Subbasin Governance Proposal

Role le of f St Stakehold lder Advi visory ry Commit ittee

Review and Provide Recommendations to the Agency on:

  • Development, adoption, amendment of the GSP
  • Sustainability goals
  • Annual work plans and reports
  • Monitoring programs
  • Modeling scenarios
  • Community outreach
  • Fee proposals
  • Projects and management actions
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Wyandotte Creek Subbasin Governance Proposal

Management Committee

  • The JPA will not have any employees
  • Each public agency who is a member of the JPA will appoint at

least one staff member to a management committee

  • Receives direction from the JPA Board
  • Generates staff reports and proposals for the JPA Board’s

consideration

  • Staffs the stakeholder advisory committee
  • Assures staff and other necessary resources are provided to

prepare and implement the GSP

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Wyandotte Creek Subbasin Governance Proposal

Management Are reas

  • Management Areas refer to an area within a basin for which a

GSP may identify different objectives, monitoring, and projects based on unique local conditions.

  • There will be two Management Areas in the Wyandotte Creek

subbasin:

  • Management Area 1: non-agricultural areas within and

directly adjacent to the City of Oroville

  • Management Area 2: The rural areas within the subbasin
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Wyandotte Creek Subbasin Governance Proposal

Management Are rea Chapters

  • The Management Areas would have distinct “chapters” in the

GSP establishing different minimum thresholds, measurable

  • bjectives, monitoring, and projects, etc.
  • All “chapters” must be consistent with the basin-wide

sustainability goals

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Wyandotte Creek Subbasin Governance Proposal

Management Are rea Roles les and Res esponsibili litie ies

  • For Management Area 1: The City of Oroville, Thermalito Water

and Power and Butte County will be responsible for overseeing the development of the Management Area chapter of the GSP

  • For Management Area 2: Butte County will be responsible for
  • verseeing the development of the Management Area chapter
  • f the GSP
  • Additional Management Areas may be defined and established

by the JPA Board of Directors, if warranted

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Wyandotte Creek GSA Board Structure

Wyandotte Creek Governance Diagram

Multi-Agency GSA develops one GSP through Joint Powers Authority

County of Butte City of Oroville

Hiring

Thermalito Water and Sewer

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Management Committee

Member agency staff

Consultants: Hired by GSA Board and report to the Management Committee.

Stakeholder Advisory Committee

  • Brown Act compliant
  • Appointed by GSA Board
  • Represents diverse interests
  • Provides input and formal

recommendations to GSA Board on GSA policies and GSP development and implementation

Technical Working Groups

  • Ad hoc
  • Established by the Management Committee
  • Advise the Management Committee on technical

matters related to GSP development and implementation, as needed.

Agricultural User Domestic Well User

The JPA Board of Directors is comprised of 3 Member Directors who are elected officials appointed by each Member agency and 2 stakeholder seats appointed by the JPA Board.

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Stakeholder Advisory Committee may be composed of the following to represent diverse beneficial users and uses consistent with Water Code Section 10723.3

Wyandotte Creek Subbasin Governance Diagram

Stakeholder Advisory Committee

Hiring

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Management Committee

Staffs Advisory Committee and includes Advisory Committee input and recommendations in staff reports to the GSA Board of Directors

GSA Board of Directors

  • Advisory Committee appointed by the GSA through an application process
  • Brown Act compliant to ensure an open, public process
  • Represents diverse interests

Purpose: To provide input and recommendations to the GSA Board of Directors on GSP development and implementation

Domestic Well User(s)-2 Environmental Representative Agricultural Water User(s)-3 Cal-Water Oroville Tribal Representative Business Association Representative

Recommendations and input on groundwater topics may include:

  • Development, adoption,

amendment of GSP

  • Sustainability goals and
  • bjectives
  • Best management

practices

  • Monitoring programs
  • Annual work plans and

reports

  • Modeling scenarios
  • Interbasin coordination
  • Projects and Management

Actions

  • Community Outreach
  • Local regulations to

implement SGMA

  • Fee proposals

South Feather Water and Power

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Wyandotte Creek Subbasin Governance Proposal

Public lic Inp Input

Comment Cards

Plenary Discussion

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Next xt Steps

Govern rnance Pro rocess Tim imelin ine

  • Wyandotte Creek Subbasin Public Meeting- July 24, 2018
  • Finalize legal agreement, including public comment (August)
  • Legal agreements for pubic agencies’ governing boards for

approval (August-September)

  • Notifications of GSA rescission and new GSA submittal (Fall

2018)

  • Seating of JPA Board by end of 2018
  • Stakeholder Advisory Committee application process and

selection (by early 2019)

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Contact In Informati tion

Faci cili litator r and Parti rticip ipati ting Public lic Agen encies

  • Consensus Building Institute (Facilitator): Tania Carlone,

tcarlone@cbi.org, (510) 684-0504 (cell)

  • Butte County: Paul Gosselin, Director, Department of Water &

Resource Conservation, PGosselin@buttecounty.net, (530) 552-3595

  • City of Oroville: Tom Lando, Interim City Administrator,

admin@cityoforoville.org, (530) 538-2535

  • Thermalito Water and Sewer District: Chris Heindell, Engineer,

Cheindell@twsd.info, (530) 533-0740

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