1. Greater Kaweah GSA Combined RCC & SC Meeting
2015 GEI VP Planning Meeting
Succession
Greater Kaweah GSA Combined RCC & SC Meeting
Wednesday, January 9, 2019
Mike

2. ITEM 3: MINUTES

3. ITEM 4: GKGSA MEETINGS

4. GKGSA Meetings December 4th TAC meeting (canceled)
Rescheduled for January 17th.
Reviewing Basin Setting/water budget (substantial comments due 1/18/19)
December 10th Board meeting
Next meeting January 14th.
Election of new officers, approval of FY 2019 budget

5. ITEM 5: SUBBASIN COORDINATION

6. Subbasin Coordination
December 18th South Valley SGMA Practitioner’s Roundtable in Tulare
December 20th Kaweah Subbasin Management Team Committee Meeting

7. Technical Support Services Grant
As of 1/8/2019, the TSS funding application, with additional information provided by GEI, is under review at DWR.

8. Kaweah Subbasin Coordination
Numerical Model
Calibrated model checks have been completed and the model has been made available to the GSA managers.
Subbasin Basin Setting Components Report
Subbasin Tech Team is providing comments to consultants on document.
All comments to be received by 1/18/2019.
Subbasin Tech Team has been meeting regularly to review the development of SMCs and the Subbasin level definitions of Undesirable Results.
Selected Measurable Objectives to be run in the Numerical Model as a comparison of subbasin’s performance.

9. Sustainable Management Criteria
Interim Milestone
Measurable Objective
Groundwater Level
Operating Range
Drought Buffer
Drought Reserve
Minimum Threshold
Undesirable Results
2015
2020
2025
2030
2035
2040
Time

10. Sustainable Management Criteria
SGMA requires that the basin be operated within its sustainable yield
Must develop a common Sustainability Goal
Must develop common definitions of Undesirable Results
Mid-Kaweah white paper has been given Advisory Committee input

11. ITEM 7: GSP DEVELOPMENT

12. GSP Development Basin Setting Chapter Monitoring Network Chapter
GKGSA Basin Setting Chapter to be completed once comments from Subbasin’s GSAs have been addressed in the Subbasin Wide Basin Setting Components report.
Monitoring Network Chapter
Chapter to be completed with the selection of Representative Monitoring Sites and development of plan to identify data gaps identified.
Sustainability Goal and Undesirable Results Chapter
Draft of chapter to be completed with approval of Undesirable Results definitions and adoption of Sustainability Goal for the Subbasin.
Projects and Management Actions Chapter
Work on this chapter to begin with refinement of Projects Matrix from GKGSA.

13. GSP Development Schedule
(6-Month Look Ahead)
SUBBASIN ACTIVITIES
Complete Groundwater Model Update
Groundwater Model Simulations
Complete Basin Setting/Water Budget
SMC Goal and SI Assessment
Define Management Areas
Water Level Projections
Develop Thresholds and Objectives for MAs
2018
Nov
Dec
Jan 2019
Feb
Mar
Apr
Complete Basin Setting Chapter
GSA Specific Model Simulations
Projects and Management Actions
Draft Monitoring Network Chapter
SMC Thresholds and Objectives – Iterative Process Developed by Stakeholders Informed by technical information including groundwater modeling
GSA Deliverable
Complete Monitoring Network Chapter
Complete SMC Chapter

14. GKGSA GSP CRITICAL PATH SCHEDULE

15. GKGSA - Call for Projects
SGMA requires that GSAs include a description of proposed projects, as well as:
Public Notice and Outreach Process
Permitting and Regulatory Process
Benefits of Each Project
Source and Reliability of Water for Each Project
Legal Authority Required
Costs and Funding
CEQA/NEPA Considerations
The GSP chapter describing these projects will also include a description of the Management Actions and Adaptive Management practices to be implemented.

16. GKGSA - Call for Projects

18. Projects & Management Actions
Comments received on proposal form and concepts matrix:
Is addressing Climate Change required by SGMA?
Are DACs the goal, or are undesirable results that impact drinking water the goal?
Increase emphasis on Ag. Ag needs to be treated as a key player since as a whole conservation management actions are going to ask Ag to give up the most.
Next steps?
Set a date to launch an open call for project and management action concept proposals
Begin evaluating submitted concepts
Solicit and begin to develop specific projects and management actions to be considered for cost analysis and numeric model run

19. Management Area Considerations

20. Management Area Considerations
Conceptual Hydrogeologic Delineations

21. Management Area Considerations
Conceptual Hydrogeologic Delineations Cross Section Index

22. Management Area Considerations
Kaweah Subbasin = 441,000 acres
GK = 219,000 acres
White Areas = 57,000 acres (~26%)
29 surface water service area units (excluding KDWCD)
Cities, CSDs, PUDs?

23. ITEM 7: COMMUNICATION & ENGAGEMENT

24. Communication & Engagement
Dec 13th - CV-SALTS Panel
Management Zones development, GSA involvement
Dec 17th - SHE SGMA educational video interview
Small drinking water systems and rural residential
TBD - Exeter Lions Club speakers bureau
Jan 25th - University of Massachusetts SGMA Interview
Feb 13th – World Ag Expo SGMA Panel
March 7th – CA Citrus Mutual Showcase: SGMA Panel
SUGGESTIONS?

25. ITEM 8: INTER-BASIN COORDINATION

26. ITEM 9: FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS/MEETINGS