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2. The San Gorgonio Pass Water Agency may recharge the excess imported
water in the Beaumont Avenue Recharge Facility, or any other location
approved by the Beaumont Basin Watermaster.
3. The imported water stored by the SGPWA pursuant to the conditions herein
and the Groundwater Storage Application, will be made available, at any time,
to the members of the Beaumont Basin Watermaster consistent with the laws,
resolutions, ordinances, and policies of the San Gorgonio Pass Water Agency.
4. Members of the Watermaster Committee shall maintain the right(s) of first
refusal to purchase imported water placed in storage by the San Gorgonio Pass
Water Agency at times when the San Gorgonio Pass water Agency determines
that it has stored supplemental water available for sale, transfer, or exchange.
At such times, the San Gorgonio Pass Water Agency shall notify all
Watermaster Committee members via electronic mail a minimum of 60
calendar days prior to any sale, transfer, or exchange of any supplemental
water in the storage account of the San Gorgonio Pass Water Agency to any
person, entity, or Watermaster member. The Watermaster shall determine
what amount(s), if any, of the stored imported water available by the San
Gorgonio Pass Water Agency will be purchased individually or collectively by
the Watermaster Committee members, which right(s) of first refusal must be
exercised in writing received by the San Gorgonio Pass Water Agency within
60 calendar days notice was sent by the San Gorgonio Pass Water Agency;
and
WHEREAS, the Beaumont Basin Watermaster reviewed and discussed this
Resolution on June 6, 2017 to take this matter up, finding that the foregoing is true and
accurate.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BEAUMONT BASIN
WATERMASTER that it does hereby accept SGPWA's Groundwater Storage Application
and does hereby grant SGPWA a water storage account pursuant to SGPWA's
Groundwater Storage Application, subject to the conditions set forth in this Resolution,
and subject to the Judgment establishing the Beaumont Basin Watermaster (Riverside
Superior Court Case No. 389197), its rules and regulations for the Beaumont Basin - to
include groundwater storage in the Beaumont Basin by Non-Appropriators - a
classification applying to SGPWA in the amount of 10,000 acre feet.
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PASSED AND ADOPTED this 6 h day of June 2017.