View the Understanding Our Water Educational Series Presentations
2023
Groundwater Sustainability Program Update (May 2023)
2022
Summary of City of Santa Cruz Aquifer Storage and Recovery Investigations (October 2022)
Groundwater Sustainability Plan Implementation Near Term Activities (July 2022)
Monitoring Well Network Enhancement Update (May 2022)
Streamflow Monitoring Report WY 2021 (May 2022)
2021
Focus Area for Addressing Groundwater Sustainability (February 2021)
Round 2 Model Results of Potential Projects (February 2021)
Proposed Additional Projects and Management Action In-Lieu/Conjunctive Use (February 2021)
Results of Model Scenarios for Potential Projects (January 2021)
2020
Groundwater in your well (December 2020)
How do Private Wells and Small Water Systems Impact the Basin (December 2020)
The 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)
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 Assessment (April 2020)
Water Demand Projections and Water Management (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)
2019
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)
Water Rights in the California and San Lorenzo Watershed (August 2019)
Surface Water and the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (August 2019)
SMGA Sustainability Indicators Workshop (July 2019)
2018
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)
2017
Santa Margarita Groundwater Basin (December 2017)
Groundwater 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)
2015
Proposed Santa Margarita Groundwater Basin Boundary Revision Approach (November 2015)