On September 12th, California’s Department of Water Resources (CDWR) announced the Sierra Valley Groundwater Management District (SVGMD) had been awarded full funding for its request for resources needed to implement the Groundwater Sustainability Plan (GSP) submitted to CDWR this past June and approved by CDWR in late July. The $5.45 million provided by CDWR’s grant will fund continued data collection and management, annual reports, a five-year update to the GSP, projects and management actions designed to sustain beneficial groundwater uses and groundwater-dependent ecosystems, and grant administration. A grant contract between CDWR and the SVGMD is expected to be executed at some point between November 2023 and January 2024. CDWR’s evaluation of the SVGMD’s GSP did include several Recommended Corrective Actions to be addressed “as soon as possible”: Failure to address these issues before future plan evaluations may lead to the SVGMD’s GSP being deemed incomplete or inadequate.
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Sierra County Supervisors discuss increasing speed limits and fire safety measures at a recent meeting.
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