STRATEGY 9
Facilitating regional groundwater recharge understanding and initiatives Groundwater basins in Los Angeles County are managed locally and independent of each other. Collaborating to improve understanding of inter-basin flows and manage groundwater basins from a regional perspective while addressing mutual challenges will assist in maximizing groundwater supply and storage potential.
Actions to support this strategy
9.1 Facilitate collaboration between
groundwater basins within Los Angeles County to share information, resolve common impediments, and provide consistent guidance that will facilitate increased potential for groundwater recharge and accounting of anticipated and realized benefits provided.
9.2 Create a consolidated groundwater
basin data platform that highlights geohydrologic interconnections and flows with an information sharing system for use to develop regional storage and groundwater management partnerships.
9.3 Facilitate discussions with regulators that will streamline permitting and facilitate further enhancement of groundwater recharge potential.
9.4 Acknowledge Los Angeles County’s
Sediment Management Strategic Plan to maximize recharge facility capture and infiltration rates and efforts to remove invasive species to improve groundwater recharge.
WATER PLAN
On Target
Collaboration between Los Angeles County’s groundwater basin managers can improve overall understanding of interconnectivity and opportunities for regional initiatives that help meet the CWP target to increase groundwater recharge and storage by enhancing regional facility recharge by 250,000 AFY.
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