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RESOLUTION NO. 2018-01

A RESOLUTION OF THE BEAUMONT BASIN WATERMASTER TO
CONFIRM AND ADOPT SAN GORGONIO PASS WATER AGENCY’S
(“SGPWA”) APPLICATION FOR GROUNDWATER STORAGE
AGREEMENT, SUBJECT TO STATED CONDITIONS

WHEREAS, the Stipulated Judgment establishing the Beaumont Basin Watermaster
(Riverside Superior Court Case No. 389197) empowers the Beaumont Basin Watermaster to
adopt appropriate rules and regulations for the conduct of Watermaster affairs; and

WHEREAS, pursuant to its authority, the Beaumont Basin Watermaster established
principles of groundwater storage in the Beaumont Basin via Resolution No. 2005-01, the
foundation for SGPWA’s Application for Groundwater Storage Agreement;

WHEREAS, SGPWA is a state water contractor formed in 1961 for the purpose of
importing water from the State Water Project into the San Gorgonio Pass. SGPWA’s service area
includes the Beaumont Basin;

WHEREAS, SGPWA submitted to the Beaumont Basin Watermaster a Groundwater
Storage Application, a copy of which is attached as Exhibit “A,” hereto, seeking approval to: i)
store up to 10,000 acre-feet of imported water in the Beaumont Basin through artificial recharge
of water from the State Water Project, via the SGPWA’s proposed Beaumont Avenue Recharge
Facility (“Spreading Basin”); ii) add imported water to the SGPWA’s Storage Account when the
quantity of imported water available to the Region exceeds the demands and/or requests for
imported water by the Watermaster Committee members; and, iii) make the imported water stored
by the SGPWA available to the members of the Beaumont Basin Watermaster.

WHEREAS, the Beaumont Basin Watermaster issued copies of SGPWA’s Groundwater
Storage Application to members of its Watermaster Committee for review in advance of the
February 7, 2018, Beaumont Basin Watermaster meeting; and,

WHEREAS, the Beaumont Basin Watermaster met on February 7, 2018 to take this matter
up, finding that the foregoing is true and accurate, and

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BEAUMONT BASIN WATERMASTER
that it does hereby: (1) rescind approval of Watermaster Resolution No. 2017-01; (2) accept
SGPWA’s Groundwater Storage Application; and (3) 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.
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