RESOLUTION No. 2004 --
Resolution of
the Board of Directors
of the Monterey
Peninsula Water Management District
Declaring Its
Intent to Prepare a Groundwater Management Plan for the Seaside Groundwater Basin
and Adopting a Statement of Public Participation
WHEREAS, the Monterey Peninsula Water Management
District is charged under the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District Law
with the integrated management of the ground and surface water resources in the
Monterey Peninsula area; and
WHEREAS, the Monterey Peninsula Water Management
District is committed to the protection, preservation, and enhancement of the
groundwater resources in the Seaside Groundwater Basin for current and future
beneficial uses; and
WHEREAS, the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District has
conducted or commissioned almost all of the significant technical and
hydrogeological studies of the groundwater resources in the Seaside Groundwater
Basin since the District’s inception in 1978; and
WHEREAS, the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District has
implemented and maintained monitoring programs to track changes in groundwater
extractions, groundwater levels and groundwater quality in the Seaside
Groundwater Basin since 1980; and
WHEREAS, the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District believes
that development, adoption and implementation of a plan for the management of
the groundwater resources in the Seaside Groundwater Basin is necessary to
prevent undesirable impacts such as depleted groundwater storage or seawater
intrusion from occurring; and
WHEREAS, the California legislature has recognized the importance
of groundwater and the need for local control and monitoring in making sound
groundwater management decisions; and
WHEREAS, the California legislature enacted Senate Bill 1938 in
2002 to provide incentives to local agencies for proactively planning and
implementing effective groundwater management programs and specified that
groundwater management plans must be prepared and include certain components to
be eligible for the award of public funds administered by the Department of
Water Resources for the construction of groundwater projects.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT
RESOLVED, and ordered by
the Board of Directors of the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District
that:
1.
The
Monterey Peninsula Water Management District intends to develop, adopt, and
implement a groundwater management plan for the Seaside Groundwater Basin. Among other components, the District’s
management plan shall include the following components:
a.
Basin
Management Objectives;
b.
Components
relating to the monitoring and management of groundwater levels, groundwater
quality, groundwater banking, inelastic land surface subsidence, and changes in
surface flow and surface water quality that directly affect groundwater levels
or quality or are caused by groundwater pumping;
c.
Monitoring
protocols to track changes in conditions related to the components in section
(b) and to generate information for the purpose of meeting Basin Management
Objectives and establishing effective management of groundwater;
d.
A plan to
involve other local agencies, jurisdictions, and purveyors in the Seaside
Groundwater Basin in the development of the groundwater management plan;
e.
A map
depicting the area overlying the Seaside Groundwater Basin, the jurisdictional
area of the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District, and the boundaries of
other local agencies and water purveyors in the Seaside Groundwater Basin; and
f.
Rules
related to implementation of the groundwater management plan.
2.
The
Monterey Peninsula Water Management District further intends to provide and
allow broad opportunity for public involvement in the development of the
groundwater management plan for the Seaside Groundwater Basin. The District’s plan for public involvement
shall include the following:
a.
The
formation of an Advisory Committee of interested parties to guide development
of the groundwater management plan; and
b.
Public review
and comment period and public hearings
On motion of Director ________ and
seconded by Director ________, the foregoing resolution is duly adopted this
19th day of February 2004 by the following votes:
AYES:
NAYS:
ABSENT:
I, Fran Farina, Secretary to the Board of
Directors of the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District, hereby certify
that the foregoing is a resolution duly adopted on the 19th day of
February __, 2004.
Witness my hand and seal of the Board of
Directors this ____day of _______ 2004.
_______________________
Fran Farina
Secretary to the Board
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Tuesday,
February 10, 2004