City Council Agenda
Memo to:
Manteca City Council
From:
Kevin Jorgensen II, Director of Engineering/City Engineer
Prepared by:
Elba Mijango, Associate Engineer;
Somporn Boonsalat, Deputy Director of Engineering
Date:
April 15, 2025
Subject:
Public Hearing regarding the First Periodic Evaluation to the 2024 Amended Eastern San Joaquin Groundwater Sustainability Plan for the Eastern San Joaquin Subbasin and rescind Resolution R2024-225.
Recommendation:
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Conduct a public hearing, adopt a resolution approving the First Periodic Evaluation to the 2024 Amended Eastern San Joaquin Groundwater Sustainability Plan (2024 Amended GSP) for the Eastern San Joaquin Subbasin, rescind Resolution R2024-225, and authorizing the City Manager or designee to take all appropriate actions necessary to carry out the purpose and intent of the resolution.
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Background:
In August 2014, the California Legislature passed, and in September 2014 the Governor signed the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act of 2015 (SGMA) to provide local groundwater sustainability agencies with the Authority and technical and financial assistance necessary to sustainably manage groundwater.
SGMA requires sustainable management of high priority groundwater basins through the development of groundwater sustainability plans (GSPs), which can be a single plan developed by one or more groundwater sustainability agencies (GSAs) or multiple coordinated plans within a basin or subbasin.
SGMA requires that GSAs periodically evaluate the GSP every five years and whenever the Plan is amended to determine whether the actions under the Plan are meeting the Plan's management objectives and whether those objectives are meeting the sustainability goal in the basin.
The City of Manteca elected to become the City of Manteca Groundwater Sustainability Agency (City of Manteca GSA), within its city boundaries, in December 2016.
The City of Manteca GSA is a member of the Eastern San Joaquin Groundwat...
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