Major Recommendations
Local or regional agencies should develop groundwater
management plans if
groundwater constitutes part of their water supply. Management
objectives should be
developed to maintain a sustainable long-term supply for
multiple beneficial uses.
Management should integrate water quantity and quality,
groundwater and surface
water, and recharge area protection.
• Groundwater management in California is a local agency
responsibility.
• In basins where there is more than one management agency,
those agencies should
coordinate their management objectives and program
activities.
• A water budget should be completed that includes recharge,
extraction and change in
storage in the aquifer(s).
• Changes in groundwater quality should be monitored and
evaluated.
• Stakeholders should be identified and included in development
of groundwater
management plans.
— California Department
of Water Resources, Bulletin 118
O.W.L.
Groundwater Management Links
for
Sonoma County
Get aquainted with groundwater
at DWR:
California Groundwater Information Center
http://www.groundwater.water.ca.gov/
Groundwater,
Central District (serving Sonoma County) Division
of Planning and Local Assistance California Department of Water Resources
http://wwwdpla.water.ca.gov/cd/groundwater/index.html
Office of Water Use and Efficiency
http://www.owue.water.ca.gov/
How to Manage Groundwater:
Water Facts 2. 7-Steps for Managing Groundwater Supplies
http://www.groundwater.water.ca.gov/dwr_publications/index.cfm
DWR
Bulletin 118, 2003 Update
Chapter 2 - Groundwater Management
in California
Chapter 3 - Groundwater Management Planning and Implementation
http://www.groundwater.water.ca.gov/bulletin118/update2003/index.cfm
Groundwater Management in California, 1999, Report to
the Legislature
http://www.dpla2.water.ca.gov/dplapubs.cfm?nav=6,649
Components of a Groundwater Management
Plan
http://www.groundwater.water.ca.gov/docs/
B118GWMgmtPlancomps21Feb24.pdf
Order
the "Groundwater Management
Handbook"
https://secure.midtown.net/grac/handbookorder.html
Read "Developing,
Managing, and Sustaining California's Groundwater Resources"
http://www.grac.org/CA_GW_Resources.pdf
Attend
the 13th Annual Groundwater Resources of Association Mtg "Managing
Aquifers for Sustainability" Rohnert
Park, Sept 23-24 2004
http://www.grac.org/(3) Groundwater
Management Under California
Law:
Part 2.75. Groundwater Management
" ...groundwater
is a valuable natural resource in California, and should
be managed to ensure both its safe production
and its quality."
http://wwwdpla.water.ca.gov/cd/groundwater/gwab3030.html
Other
California Laws and Legislation affecting
groundwater
management.
http://www.groundwater.water.ca.gov/water_laws/index.cfm
SB 610/SB 221 Guidebook
for Cities, Counties,
and Water
Suppliers:
http://www.owue.water.ca.gov/(4)
State Financial
Assistance:
DWR Grants and
Loans
http://www.grantsloans.water.ca.gov/index.cfm
AB
303 Local Groundwater
Assistance Provides
up to $250,000
per
groundwater
management
project to
local public
agencies.
Due date:
Fall 2004 Total funds:
$6 million
http://www.grantsloans.water.ca.gov/grants/assistance.cfm
AB
303 Fact
Sheet
http://www.grantsloans.water.ca.gov/docs/AB303FactSheet01-03.pdf
AB 303
Funding Recommendations
2003-2004
http://www.grantsloans.water.ca.gov/docs/FINAL_CBDA_ab303_FundingRecommendations
.pdf
Groundwater Monitoring Data:
Groundwater level data
http://wdl.water.ca.gov/gw/admin/main_menu_gw.asp
Water quality data
http://geotracker.swrcb.ca.gov/
Information on Sonoma
County Groundwater:
DWR's Evaluation of Groundwater Resources: Sonoma
County (Vol. 1)
http://www.sonoma.edu/users/n/norwick/Document/Ford/gwsforeword.html
USGS Groundwater Atlas
http://ca.water.usgs.gov/groundwater/gwatlas/coastal/
USGS Study: Water Resources Availability and
Management in Sonoma County, CA
http://ca.water.usgs.gov/user_projects/sonoma/index.html
DWR Bulletin 118, Update 2003 Basin
Descriptions
http://www.groundwater.water.ca.gov/bulletin118/basin_desc/basins_s.cfm#gwb49htm
