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City of Morgan Hill
2015 Urban Water Management Plan
8.10 ANTICIPATED REGULATIONS
The following section discuss anticipated regulations that may impact future urban water
management planning processes, and are expected prior to the 2020 UWMPs. While these
regulations will not impact the 2015 UWMP, the City is acknowledging the impending regulations.
8.10.1 Executive Order B-37-16
In accordance with the recent Executive Order B-37-16, the City acknowledges that the Water
Shortage Contingency Plan may require updates in 2017. DWR staff were contacted as part of the
preparation of this plan, and indicated that stakeholder meetings will take place prior to release of
draft guidelines for implementing changes resulting from the Executive Order. As such, the City
intends to reevaluate the Water Shortage Contingency Plan at the time of final guidance release
from the DWR and the State Water Board.
8.10.2 Sustainable Groundwater Management Act
The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) was signed into law by Governor Jerry
Brown in 2014, and is intended to promote the sustainable management of groundwater
resources on a local level. SGMA requires identification of medium and high priority basins and
the agency tasked with program implementation to meet sustainability standards for those basins.
As such, and because the Llagas and Santa Clara subbasins are identified as high and medium
priority basins, Santa Clara Valley Water District has adopted a resolution to become the
Groundwater Sustainability Agency (GSA) for those basins.
As the GSA, the District will prepare the Groundwater Sustainability Plans (GSP) for the Santa
Clara and Llagas Subbasins. These plans are due to the Department of Water Resources by 2020
for critically overdrafted aquifers, and 2022 for all others. The District has a currently adopted
Groundwater Management Plan, which was completed in 2012. The District indicates that the
Groundwater Management Plan will be updated by the end of 2016, and will address the
additional mechanisms for management of the basins created by SGMA.