Plans to regulate groundwater for the first time ever in the Ukiah Valley Basin are moving forward.
Yesterday, the Ukiah Valley Basin Groundwater Sustainability Agency had their second public meeting, where they discussed how their mammoth project of sustainably managing the groundwater in the Ukiah Valley Basin is coming along.
The Groundwater Sustainability Agency (GSA) is in charge of creating a plan to regulate all groundwater (well water) in the Ukiah Valley Basin for decades to come. Basically, the GSA will decide how much water gets pumped and how much water stays in the ground in order to avoid chronic groundwater lowering.
Although the Groundwater Sustainability Agency is making progress on their management plans, there is still a lot that is up in the air. Preciselyhow the agency chooses to manage groundwater will dictate how residents who rely on it are impacted.