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CC - CONSENT ITEM: Approval of a Cost Sharing Agreement Covering a Share of the Administrative Costs of the Santa Monica Basin Groundwater Sustainability Agency.
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Meeting Date: August 12, 2024
Contact Person/Dept: Sean Singletary/Public Works Department
Phone Number: (310) 253-6457
Fiscal Impact: Yes [X] No [ ] General Fund: Yes [ ] No [X]
Attachments: Yes [ ] No [X]
Public Notification: E-Mail (08/07/2024): Meetings and Agendas - City Council
Department Approval: Yanni Demitri, Public Works Director/City Engineer (07/29/2024)
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RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends that City Council approve a cost sharing agreement covering Culver City's share of the Santa Monica Basin Groundwater Sustainability Agency's administrative costs.
BACKGROUND
In September 2014, Governor Brown signed three bills (AB 1793, SB 1319, and SB 1168) designed to advance groundwater management in California. The legislation, together known as the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), provides for improved management of groundwater in unadjudicated basins by local authorities. SGMA is one component of an integrated state policy that includes conservation, recycling, safe drinking water, storage, and watershed restoration. Sustainable management addresses management and use of groundwater in a way that can be maintained without chronic lowering of groundwater levels, and significant and unreasonable reduction in groundwater storage, seawater intrusion, degradation of groundwater quality, land subsidence, and surface water depletion. Good groundwater management will provide a buffer against drought and climate change, and contribute to reliable water supplies regardless of weather patterns.
Santa Monica Groundwater Subbasin
In 2014, the state's Department of Water Resources established an initial priority for each basin through the California Statewide Groundwater Elevat...
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