TO: Technical Advisory Group for the Napa County Groundwater Sustainability Agency
FROM: David Morrison - Director of Planning, Building and Environmental Services
REPORT BY: Jamison Crosby, Natural Resources Conservation Manager
SUBJECT: Presentation and Discussion of Interconnected Surface Water and Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems; Monitoring Well Data; Potential Recharge Areas; and the Status of Sustainable Management Criteria and Potential Response Actions
RECOMMENDATION
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The County's technical support team will provide a briefing to the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) on interconnected surface water and groundwater dependent ecosystems in the Napa Valley Subbasin. Additional information will be provided on representative monitoring sites and the status of sustainable management criteria (particularly minimum thresholds) at a subset of these sites so that the TAG may discuss potential response actions. Provide preliminary information on potential recharge areas of interest.
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Presenters from the Napa County Resource Conservation District (Paul Blank and Martin Perales), Stillwater Sciences (Christian Braudrick), the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (Alyssa Obester), and the Southern California Coastal Water Research Project (Kris Taniguchi-Quan) will provide briefing materials to the TAG on interconnected surface water and groundwater dependent ecosystems in the Napa Valley Subbasin.
Cab Esposito from Luhdorff & Scalmanini Consulting Engineers (LSCE) will provide an update on current conditions at representative monitoring sites in the Napa Valley Subbasin and preliminary information and datasets being considered to inform potential recharge areas of interest.
Procedure for each separate agenda item:
Staff introduces the presentations.
Clarifying questions from the TAG.
Public comment
TAG Discussion of the item
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