Agency and Supplemental Presentations

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• Groundwater in your well (December 2020)

• How do Private Wells and Small Water Systems Impact the Basin(December 2020)

• Thes Sustainable Groundwater Management Act and the Role of Private Well Owners (De Minimis Pumpers) (December 2020)

• Ways to be a Good Citizen of the Aquifer (December 2020)

• Depletion of interconnected Surface Water: Significant and Unreasonable Statement (October 2020)

• Santa Margarita Basin Water Budget (October 2020)

• Model Scenarios for Potential Projects & Management Actions (October 2020)

• Youth Outreach (October 2020)

• Revisit Approach for Developing Undesirable Results for Degraded Groundwater Quality and Proposed Minimum Thresholds and Undesirable Results for Chronic Lowering of Groundwater Levels (September 2020)

• Depletion of Interconnected Surface Water: Significant and Unreasonable Statement, Minimum Thresholds, and Undesirable Results (September 2020)

• Sustainability Indicator #4 – Reduction of Groundwater Storage (September 2020)

• Depletion of Interconnected Surface Water: Proposed Significant and Unreasonable Statement and Minimum Thresholds (August 2020)

• GSP Section 2 Plan Area & Basin Setting (August 2020)

• Approach for Developing Undesirable Results for Degraded Groundwater Quality and Proposed Minimum Thresholds and Measurable Objectives for Chronic Lowering of Groundwater Levels (August 2020)

• Groundwater Modeling Update – Santa Margarita Basin (August 2020)

• Review of GFDL-CM2.1 A2 Scenario (August 2020)

• Depletion of Interconnected Surface Water: A Sustainable Management Indicator (August 2020)

• Steelhead, Coho Salmon and the Santa Margarita Groundwater Basin (August 2020)

• City of Santa Cruz Habitat Conservation Planning (August 2020)

• SGMA & Santa Margarita Basin Conditions (August 2020)

• Groundwater Sustainability Plan (GSP) Communications and Engagement Plan (July 2020)

• Depletion of Interconnected Surface Water: A Sustainable Management Indicator (July 2020)

• Proposed Undesirable Results for Degraded Groundwater Quality and Statement of Significant and Unreasonable Chronic Lowering of Groundwater Levels (July 2020)

• Projects and Management Actions (PMAs) (June 2020)

• Proposed Minimum Thresholds & Measurable Objectives Approach for Chronic Lowering of Groundwater Levels (June 2020)

• Proposed Minimum Thresholds & Measurable Objectives for Degraded Groundwater Quality & Chronic Lowering of Groundwater Levels (May 2020) – Links Updated

• Minimum Thresholds and Measurable Objectives Summary Table (May 2020)

• Groundwater Level Conditions and Significant and Unreasonable Conditions (April 2020)

• Board Meeting and Process Assesment (April 2020)

• Water Demand Projections and Water Management (March 2020)

• Degraded Groundwater Quality – Significant & Unreasonable Minimum Thresholds & Measurable Objectives (March 2020)

• Significant and Unreasonable Degraded Groundwater Quality (February 2020)

• Sustainable Management Criteria Overview and Approach (February 2020)

• Basin Groundwater Quality (February 2020)

• Federal and State Water Policy Framework (February 2020)

• Groundwater Modeling for Santa Margarita Basin GSP (January 2020)

• Santa Margarita Basin GSP – Projects and Management Actions (January 2020)

• Integrated Hydrologic Model Development and Evaluation (for Non-Modelers) (Groundwater Resources Association – GRA Cast November 2019)

• SGMA Requirements and Relevance to Regional Climate Change Data and Conditions (December 2019)

• Regional Climate Change Conditions (December 2019)

• Management Area Overview (October 2019)

• Groundwater Sustainability Plan Sections (October 2019)

• Groundwater Modeling (October 2019)

• Hydrogeological Conceptual Model & Basin Conditions (September 2019)

• Groundwater Sustainability Plan Road Map (September 2019)

• Surface Water/Groundwater Interactions in the Santa Margarita Basin (August 2019)

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• City of Santa Cruz Overview of Water Planning Tools, Strategies, and Current Directions (August 2019)

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• Water Rights in the California and San Lorenzo Watershed (August 2019)

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• Surface Water and the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (August 2019)

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• SMGA Sustainability Indicators Workshop (July 2019)

• SGMA 101 and SGMA Groundwater Sustainability Agency Roles and Responsibilities (September 2018)

• SVWD Role and Responsibilities in Water Management (August 2018)

• Santa Margarita Groundwater Agency Stakeholder Assessment (July 2018)

• SLVWD Santa Margarita Basin Groundwater Sustainability Agency (June 2018)

• Santa Margarita Groundwater Basin (December 2017)

• Groundwater 101 (December 2017)

• SGMA 101 (December 2017)

• Santa Margarita Groundwater Basin Management (April 2017)

• California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (April 2017)

• Santa Margarita Groundwater Management (February 2017)

• The Groundwater Sustainability Plan (February 2017)

• Proposed Santa Margarita Groundwater Basin Boundary Revision Approach (November 2015)

• Basin Boundary Revision Proposal (October 2015)