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Workshop Memorandum 17-073
Date: May 30, 2017
From: Jennifer Ares, Water Resource Manager
Subject: Review of the Memorandum of Agreement to form a Groundwater Sustainability
Agency for the San Timoteo Subbasin
On Sept. 16, 2014, Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a three-bill legislative package, known
as the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act of 2014 (the “Act”). The Act provides a
framework for sustainable management of groundwater supplies by local authorities, with a limited
role for state intervention only if necessary to protect the resource. The Act protects existing
surface water and groundwater rights and requires the formation of local groundwater
sustainability agencies (GSAs) that must assess conditions in their local water basins and adopt
locally-based management plans.
The District has been actively involved in the development of the Groundwater Sustainability
Agency for the San Timoteo Sub-Basin. Additional agencies involved within the basin are
Beaumont Cherry Valley Water District, the City of Redlands, San Gorgonio Pass Water Agency.
Eastern Municipal Water District is represented as a stakeholder to the GSA and will be forming
a separate GSA in their service area that covers the lower San Timoteo Basin.
In order to become a Groundwater Sustainability Agency for the San Timoteo Sub-basin, each
party of the Agreement must conduct a public hearing and obtain Board and/or Council approval.
The attached Memorandum of Agreement has been scheduled for a public hearing at the June 6,
2017 board meeting. All documents required for the GSA must be submitted to the Department
of Water Resources by June 30, 2017.
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