Plans for ensuring the long-term viability of four major groundwater basins in the North Bay were approved Thursday by state water regulators.
The State Department of Water Resources announced that it gave the okay to plans developed for the Napa Valley Subbasin in Napa County and the Santa Rosa Plain Subbasin, the Petaluma Valley Basin and Sonoma Valley Subbasin in Sonoma County.
"Climate-driven swings between drought and flood make it critical that we capture excess water and store it underground, so it is available during drought periods. Adequate preparation by local agencies is essential to do so," said DWR Director Karla Nemeth in a news release. "The state just recognized some years ago that that California groundwater basins were dropping and there was no regulation," said Napa County Natural Resources Conservation Manager Jamison Crosby, who helped spearhead the planning process.
"In the aggregate, what it means is that groundwater users are going to have to reduce their dependence, they're going to have to cut back," Crosby said. Trotta said the approvals allow the local groundwater sustainability agencies to move forward with additional monitoring and data collection and to begin planning the actual projects and management actions needed to achieve or maintain sustainability.
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