Summary: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 The Board of Directors of the Pajaro Valley Water Management Agency, or PVWMA, meets tonight at 7:00 o’clock in the Watsonville City Council Chambers. If there were anything they could do about it, I am sure that Board members would be focusing on how to get more water to manage. Unfortunately, I don’t think the Board is going to be able to make it rain. Board members can cross their fingers just like the rest of us, but the Water Management Agency is just going to have to “manage” with the water they’ve got. Come to think of it, that is their job, and it is all the more important as we face a potentially extended period of drought. Tonight there is a “big” item on the Board’s agenda. Agenda Item #9 is a public hearing to consider actions related to the certification of the agency’s Basin Management Plan Update EIR, and approval of the Basin Management Plan Update. Tonight is the last chance for public comment, and you are definitely invited. The proposed Update envisions a series of projects intended to begin reversing the groundwater overdraft occurring throughout the Pajaro Valley, on both sides of the River, and thus in both Monterey and Santa Cruz Counties. Actually accomplishing the proposed projects will take money, and we are just now entering what the Update says is the “financing phase. It would be hard to overstate the importance of stopping groundwater overdraft in the Pajaro Basin. Check out that Update! More Information: Land Use Links Gary Patton’s Two Worlds Blog PVWMA Website Basin Management Plan Update Final EIR for Basin Management Plan Update PVWMA Board of Directors Agenda – Meeting of March 19, 2014
