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UKIAH VALLEY BASIN GROUNDWATER SUSTAINABILITY AGENCY
340 Lake Mendocino Dr. • Ukiah • California 95482 • (707)463-4363 • fax (707)463-5474
GSA Administration Staff Report
Item No. 4a
Date 12/08/2022
From UVBGSA General Manager (Erik Cadaret, West Yost)
To Board of Directors
Subject Status of DWR Round 2 SGM Implementation Grant
Consent Agenda ☐ Regular Agenda ☒ Notice of Public Hearing ☐
Recommended Action
Board will receive presentation on the proposed grant application for the Department of Water
Resources (“DWR”) Round 2 Sustainable Groundwater Management (“SGM”) Implementation Grant
Application. Board will discuss and consider approval of the grant application for submission and direct
GSA staff to submit the grant application upon final approval from GSA Grant Ad-Hoc Committee.
Background
On September 8th, 2022, the UVBGSA Board directed GSA Staff to prepare a letter proposal for West
Yost, in cooperation with Larry Walker Associates (LWA) through their existing on-call contract with the
GSA to provide technical support, to prepare and submit a GSA grant application for the DWR Round 2
SGM Implementation Grant, and for the Board Chair to appoint an Ad-Hoc to guide the proposal and
application process. The grant application was originally due on November 30, 2022, but the grant
deadline was moved to December 16th. The Board Chair has since formed a Grant Ad-Hoc Committee
(Committee) consisting of two Board members, two TAC members, GSA Staff, and LWA staff. The
Committee approved West Yost’s proposal in October 2022 and since then, West Yost and LWA have
worked with the Committee to develop the grant application.
The Committee is currently reviewing the draft grant project workplans and will be submitting
comments by the end of day on December 8th, 2022 to West Yost. West Yost is currently finishing up the
remaining grant required attachments and documentation for submission. West Yost will address
comments and finalize draft grant project work plans (Attachment 3) and figures (Attachment 4) by
December 13.
GSA Staff and the Committee will meet on December 13 to finalize approval of the grant application for
submission. GSA Staff will then submit the final grant application by the due date on December 16.
The following table summarizes the grant projects that will be included in the grant, the cost estimate to
complete the project, the benefits, type of benefit, and ranked in order of priority:
UKIAH VALLEY BASIN GROUNDWATER SUSTAINABILITY AGENCY
340 Lake Mendocino Dr. • Ukiah • California 95482 • (707)463-4363 • fax (707)463-5474
Table 1: Ukiah Valley Basin GSA DWR Round 2 SGM Implementation Grant Application Grant Projects Summary Table
Grant Projects Cost
Estimate
Benefits Benefit Type Project
Prioritization
GSP Updates $1.42M Update GSP, incorporate other project component data Near term &
long term
1
Rate and Fee Study $0.27M Mechanism to fund implementation of GSP Near term &
long term
2
Interconnected
Surface Water
$0.67M Data gap filling, direct feed into GSP updates, SMCs UPDATE Near term &
long term
3
Recharge Project $1.93M Data gap filling, develop basin recharge master plan, pilot recharge
projects
Near term &
long term
4
Groundwater Well
Inventory
$0.46M Data gap filling, direct feed into GSP updates Near term &
long term
5
Water Supply
Reliability Study
$0.58M Data gap filling, determine resiliency of water supplies, better
understand PVP/no PVP impacts, direct feed into GSP updates
Long term 6
Grant Admin $0.53M Cost for GSA staff to manage grant funds. NOTE: project costs above
also have funds for GSA staff/consultants to manage the projects
NA NA
Total $5.86M
UKIAH VALLEY BASIN GROUNDWATER SUSTAINABILITY AGENCY
340 Lake Mendocino Dr. • Ukiah • California 95482 • (707)463-4363 • fax (707)463-5474
Fiscal Impact
The FY 22/23 budget that was approved on June 23, 2022 includes $50,000 for the GSA to use to pursue
grant funds. It’s estimated that this grant effort will cost up to $50,000 for West Yost and LWA to
complete the grant application.