To: Board of Supervisors
From: Planning and Building Department -- Drought Task Force
Agenda Section: Departmental
SUBJECT:
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Monthly Report from Drought Task Force
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RECOMMENDATION(S):
Recommendation
That the Board of Supervisors:
1. Receive the report from the Drought Task Force.
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SOURCE OF FUNDING:
This update has been prepared out of Planning and Building 277 Budget Unit
DISCUSSION:
This is a report on the activities undertaken and information received by the Drought Task Force. The last report of the Drought Task Force was on Aug. 10, 2021. At that meeting the Task Force indicated an intent to provide monthly reports to the Board of important information and bring forward recommendations.
The good news is that there has been a small amount of precipitation in the month of September, but the conditions of drought persist. The task force initiated work on several important initiatives:
1. Permitting Standards for Water Wells. A contract has been entered into with LACO Associates to provide hydro-geologic consulting services to provide the following:
a. Guidelines for approving low impact wells and site-specific testing requirements for wells anticipated to have a higher impact
b. Database of existing well permits for use in county-wide studies and development of permanent standards
c. A decision matrix to determine whether wells are likely to fall into a high impact category or a low impact category with an appropriate set of protocols for each.
This contract is intended to address the existing well applications on file and to establish a set of base line data for a more comprehensive set of studies for permanent well permitting regulations. The first two actions (a and b) will be completed by the end of October, 2021 and the decision matrix will be completed by the end of February, 2022.
2. 2021 Water Efficiency Workshop featuring Tasha McKee of Sanctuary Forest
On Sept. 28, 2021, DEH sponsored a workshop with Sanctuary Fo...
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