Groundwater Management Plan Update

The Yuba County Water Agency Board of Directors adopted the updated Groundwater Management Plan on December 14, 2010. Following is the text of the adopting ordinance.

Printed and electronic copies of the GMP report are in production and will be available soon. For further information, please contact Scott Matyac, Water Resources Manager, at 530-741-6278 ×117 or smatyac@ycwa.com

ORDINANCE NO. 13

AN ORDINANCE OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
OF THE YUBA COUNTY WATER AGENCY

ADOPTING UPDATED GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT PLAN

The Board of Directors of the Yuba County Water Agency ordains as follows:

Section 1. This ordinance is adopted with reference to the following background recitals:

a. Water Code section 10750 et seq. and the Yuba County Water Agency Act authorize
the Agency to adopt, implement and from time to time update a groundwater management plan.

b. The Agency adopted a groundwater management plan in March 2005. The Agency
has committed to a five-year evaluation interval of its groundwater management plan. Updating
the groundwater management plan is in furtherance of and consistent with the Agency’s goals
and objectives.

c. Water Code sections 10753.2 and 10753.5 require that, before adopting a groundwater
management plan, the Agency must hold two public hearings concerning the proposed
groundwater management plan. The Agency has duly noticed and conducted the two public
hearings on August 10, 2010 and December 14,2010.

d. After considering the public comment and other information presented at the
December 16, 2010 hearing, the Board of Directors determines that (i) the Agency has not
received a majority written protest against the proposed groundwater management plan pursuant
to Water Code section 10753.6, and (ii) it is in the best interests of the Agency that it adopt the
updated groundwater management plan.

Section 2. The Board of Directors hereby adopts the updated Yuba County Water Agency
Groundwater Management Plan dated December, 2010 in the form as presented at this Board
meeting.

Section 3. This ordinance shall take effect 30 days after its final passage.

Section 4. Within 15 days from the date of passage of this ordinance, the Agency Secretary shall (a) publish it one time in a newspaper of general circulation published and circulated in the Agency, and (b) submit a copy of the plan in electronic format to the State Department of Water Resources.

INTRODUCED by the Board of Directors on the 14th day of December
2010.

PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of Directors of the Yuba County Water Agency on the 28th day of December 2010.